Perspective from our Families
I most value how my daughter feels proud to help others and is now so enthusiastic about reading thanks to her experiences in A Mother’s Touch Jr. Kindergarten program. She also adores her Jr. Kindergarten teacher, who takes the time to build nurturing relationships with all the children in her class. - Al G.
Perspective from our Families
Educational Philosophy
Five-year-olds are poised for rapid cognitive and social-emotional growth.
Our Junior Kindergarten program is designed to stretch children and present opportunities to develop more responsibility, initiative, and problem-solving skills. Through play and social interaction, children learn and develop a positive self-concept in school.
Daily Experiences
Daily experiences foster physical, sensory, social, emotional, and intellectual development.
Physical Care
Routines empower children to independently engage in self care practices that promote healthy living. Children also learn to act with greater responsibility for others and their environment through classroom roles.
Motor Skills
Children build skills through centers. To prepare for the multifaceted work of writing, children engage in increasingly complex fine motor activities such as cutting fabric into shapes and using paint or brush strokes to form letters, symbols, or patterns. Throughout the day, revitalizing time is spent engaging in physical activity and breathing fresh air outdoors! Our children jump and dance in rhythm with music. Junior Kindergarteners also spend time climbing and running outdoors.
Social-Emotional Skills
In Jr. Kindergarten, teachers use Second Step curriculum to explicitly teach executive function skills, which research has proven to be the foundation for self-regulation and social-emotional competence.
Intellectual Development
Our Curriculum
Junior Kindergarten classrooms implement programs such as Jolly Phonics, a multi-sensory approach to letter-sound recognition and letter formation, and Handwriting without Tears, a readiness program designed by an occupational therapist to help pre-kindergarteners develop the physical skills and conceptual knowledge they need to print letters and words. Through activities such as building with wooden pieces, stamping, and rolling dough, children gain experience with hands on letter play and prepare for success with capital letters.