Pre-Kindergarten Programs

Goals for the Firefly Pre-Kindergarten Program

The Firefly Pre-Kindergarten Program will prepare your child with the academic and socialization skills necessary for Kindergarten.  Our experienced teachers use a research-based curriculum designed to teach early literacy and mathematics skills.  In addition, your child will be provided with opportunities to learn American sign language, complete art activities, sing and have fun learning and playing with friends.

The Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten curriculums were designed by a team of researchers in early childhood development and our owner, Jennifer Truckly.  Jennifer is a teacher who has taught first grade, kindergarten, and special needs children in the Whitehall-Coplay School District for over 25 years.

Our Pre-Kindergarten teacher and Director, Miss Anita, has taught at Kurious Kids for over 15 years.

Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum

Socialization: Children will strengthen their social skills through focusing on appropriate social interactions, playing with friends and practicing self-discipline.  They will gain and develop responsibility by using their independence skills and decision making.  Communication skills are further developed through the use of questioning strategies during story time and peer/teacher interactions.

Language Arts: Reinforcement and the identification of the 26 alphabet letters and letter sounds will be a daily focus using a researched base curriculum and workbook activities.  Children will learn the pre-reading concept of “blending” letter sounds to form words along with memorization of sight words. The children will also practice their letter printing skills. 

Your child will learn the fundamental academic skills associated with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for mathematics and literacy.

Mathematics: Children will gain the knowledge of printing and identifying numbers, patterns, graphing, classifying objects, and counting with manipulatives and number charts.

Science: Children will use their critical thinking skills to conduct simple science experiments and begin to think like a scientist using the scientific method procedure.

The Arts: The Arts are key element in the learning process.  Your child will dance, sing, use musical instruments, and make art masterpieces that correlate with a weekly theme.