Half-Day Nursery School

Mini-Skool’s new Nursery School program starts this September (2009) at our Cawthra, Bromsgrove and Richmond Hill centres. We are pleased to provide our clients the option of a program ideal for parents who only need part time care for children 2.5 years to 5 years of age. Our Nursery School program will provide the same wonderful educational components as our regular programs in an all new compact time period.

Morning program times: 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Afternoon program times: 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
(Please note: Afternoon program only available when Morning program is full)

Our Nursery School program is a theme based program that provides a full curriculum and plenty of learning opportunities for your child. Each Discovery area provides new experiences for your child. The Nursery School is taught by qualified Early Childhood Educators who will provide many social and interactive activities for your child to experience. A nutritional snack will be provided daily.

Our Nursery School program has two streams:

Three’s Program:

This program is provided for 2.5 and 3 year old children.
The Three’s program focuses on developing a variety of cognitive and fine motor skills necessary to progress through the coming years. Each child will receive their own educational binder to work out of. The Key components covered within the three’s program include:

  1. Pre-writing skills (pencil control and tracing)
  2. Letters (taught in Jolly Phonics order)
  3. Numbers (counting, matching sets)
  4. Pre-School concepts ( colours, shapes, cutting, matching, opposites)
  5. Dynamic, professional teachers!
  6. Excellent purpose made facilities with large classrooms.

Kindergarten Program (JK and SK):

Our Kindergarten programs are for ages 4 and 5 years.
Our goal for Kindergarten children is to assist them in reaching their highest level of learning and to prepare them for grade one. We believe in a multi-sensory approach to teaching. We incorporate Jolly Phonics and Math Works to teach the children in a fun and interactive way. Each child will receive an educational binder and workbooks. Kindergarten children are also introduced to French.

The basic skills for reading and writing covered by The Jolly Phonics Program are:

  1. Learning the letter sounds
  2. Learning letter formation
  3. Blending words
  4. Identifying sounds in words
  5. Spelling and identifying familiar words

The Five Strands of Mathematics covered are:

  1. Number sense and numeration
  2. Spatial Sense and Geometry
  3. Patterning
  4. Data Management and Probability
  5. Measurement

Our goals for teaching French to our Kindergarten classes are as follows

  1. To introduce children to frequently used words in French
  2. To help children to get comfortable with using French words in everyday conversations
  3. To have French introduced in a fun and interactive way through circles, props, charts and stories
  4. To use written activity sheets as a take home assignment. These sheets should be used for follow up with activities to compliment the current program and to encourage parent involvement