Pre-K is a pivotal year for building kindergarten readiness. We don't believe in trade-offs — our Pre-K kids are both ready and still get to be five. Phonics in the morning. Mud kitchen in the afternoon.
Grace's Pre-K is a private, preparatory Pre-K in Aledo — taught inside our private, family-owned preschool with the Frog Street curriculum and Aledo ISD–specific readiness. See how we prepare kids for kindergarten & beyond →
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Pre-K is the most academically rigorous room at Grace — but it's still preschool, not first grade. Joyful, hands-on, developmentally right.
Breakfast, journal entry (a sentence and a drawing), book browsing, free play with friends.
Calendar, weather, helper of the day, daily theme, sharing time. Frog Street Pre-K curriculum drives the structure.
Letter sounds, sight word work, decoding practice, name-writing every day. Letterland phonics layered with Frog Street.
Formal letter formation, lowercase work, beginning sentence-writing on dotted lines. The HWT magic at its full strength.
Counting to 30+, patterns, simple addition, shape work, measuring. Hands-on manipulatives — never worksheets at this age.
Preschool playground — bikes, climbing, gardening, dramatic outdoor play, organized games.
Hot meals, child-sized tables, real conversations. Pre-K kids set their own places now and clear them after.
Some still nap, some have a quiet hour with books or quiet activities. We don't force naps at this age.
Chapter book reading begins here. We can stretch their attention span 15-20 minutes for a great story.
Real experiments — predictions, observations, recording results. The foundation of scientific thinking.
Soccer Shots, Birdie Buddies golf, music, project-based art, more outdoor time. The afternoon is for choice and exploration.
Free play, daily Brightwheel reports, sometimes a quick share-out of what they learned today.
Not just letters and numbers. Behaviors, habits, and dispositions kindergarten teachers wish every kid arrived with.
The pre-reading work that makes first grade possible. By June, most kids are decoding 3-letter words.
Handwriting and early sentence-writing are a daily focus.
Counting, comparing, simple addition. Kindergarten math is more advanced than parents expect — we get them ready.
Curiosity made systematic. They learn to predict, observe, and explain.
Sitting in a chair for 20 minutes. Listening to directions. Working independently. The unsexy kindergarten skills.
Opt-in. Age-appropriate lessons in kindness, courage, gratitude, integrity. Aledo values, lived daily.
Every child grows at their own pace. A real list of real skills. Kindergarten teachers tell us our kids arrive prepared.
Texas allows up to 1:18 for four-year-olds. Low student-to-teacher ratios are the principle we build every room around — we enroll below the state maximum and keep it there whenever we can, because Pre-K is when individual attention pays off most: coaching writing, hearing them read, catching them up. Never a guaranteed number — always a philosophy of not maxing out.
By four and five, your child is learning phonics, sight words, journaling, kindergarten-level math. That kind of learning stacks best on top of one thing: an adult who knows them cold. From Preschool through Kinder Bridge, that's exactly what your child gets at Grace — one consistent teacher for the entire year. Someone who knows what motivates them, what shuts them down, and what they need on the hard days.
Harvard's National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, chaired by pediatrician Dr. Jack Shonkoff, puts it plainly:
“There is no scientific evidence to support the belief that frequently rotating relationships with large numbers of adult caregivers provide valuable learning opportunities in the early years of life.”
— Harvard National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
Programs that reshuffle children frequently have often rebranded a staffing problem as a "developmental benefit." It isn't. It's turnover with better marketing. Grace is a real place with real people — rare short-notice combines happen — but they stay rare because our teachers stay.
Read the fuller thinking on our Parks of Aledo page.
Tour during a morning session. Watch a phonics lesson. See journal time. You'll understand exactly why our families don't leave.
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