Prekindergarten Program in Kidsvalley Daycare & OSC in Leduc

Getting Ready for a Lifetime of Learning

Your child will gain independence while getting ready for the transition to kindergarten with a more organized environment. Our passionate teachers will partner with you during this special time making their “senior year” of preschool the best it can be.

Your Prekindergartner’s Day

Each day your child will explore a variety of cultures, doing simple addition and subtraction, creating simple patterns, singing songs, doing art, and making music.

Purposeful Play Is Early Education

Each day is packed with carefully designed activities structured around the six main development areas. Here are a few example activities:

Language and Literacy Development

  • make early attempts at speaking
  • learn to understand a variety of words by listening, observing, and engaging
  • use sounds and gestures to express needs, wants, and interests
  • listen to books read aloud

Executive Function

  • work on early memory skills
  • focus attention for short periods of time
  • use different approaches to solve simple problems, such as making sounds and pointing
  • control impulses some of the time

Social and Emotional Development

  • form an attachment to familiar adults
  • begin to interact with other children
  • express some emotions through sounds, facial expressions, and movements
  • build a sense of self by recognizing self in a mirror

Physical Development and Wellness

  • work on physical milestones like rolling over and crawling
  • coordinate hand movements to begin reaching for and grasping objects
  • Start to cooperate with care routines like getting dressed and washing hands
  • show an interest in eating and trying new foods

Cognitive Development

  • begin to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar things
  • use the five senses to explore and observe
  • begin to copy the simple actions of others
  • perform actions to gain a response

Creative Expression

  • begin to explore bright, contrasting colors
  • explore a variety of textures like wet and sticky
  • express feelings through movement
  • listen to music and experiment with toy instruments