This is the year that decides whether your child walks into kindergarten confident or behind. 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.
Tour the Pre-K room
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.
Real letter formation, sentence-writing, journal entries. They leave us writing.
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.
A real list of real skills. Kindergarten teachers tell us our kids arrive prepared.
Texas allows up to 1:18 for four-year-olds. We hold it at 1:12 because Pre-K is when individual attention pays off the most — coaching writing, hearing them read, catching them up when they need it.
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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