Happy Hollow School Pre-Kindergarten Program
Happy Hollow School Pre-Kindergarten Program Philosophy
Regardless of a child's preschool background, Happy Hollow Pre-Kindergarten is designed to help your child develop a love of learning while continuing to nurture social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development that is well underway. Our teachers help the child develop skills in self-regulation, self-realization, and independent thought and expression. Your child is encouraged to explore and begin to understand the world and people around them. It is in Happy Hollow's Pre-K, and continuing on in kindergarten, that students learn-to-learn in a tangible, practical yet exciting way.
The Happy Hollow Pre-Kindergarten Program introduces children to a wide range of academic topics and learning tools. Ranging from language, science, art, and math in academics to computers, books, the library and creative thinking as tools, the School's pre-k students enter the rest of their academic career prepared and excited about school.
A few of the goals and focuses of the pre-k program are:
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As with our preschool and kindergarten programs, Happy Hollow believes work and play should not be differentiated in the learning process of children, because play is a child's way of learning. As a child uses toys and objects to represent things, he/she begins to understand the symbolic process of reading and writing. Through play, children also develop imagination and powers of concentration. Their thinking capacities and problem-solving skills are strengthened. Our activity-oriented program fosters and supports this natural way of learning.
