TK Program

Young children master both gross motor skills, like coordination of hands and feet, and fine motor skills. We engage them in a range of activities to help with both.

• Dancing/Gymnastics/Yoga.
• Large playground/backyard gives children space to run around and jump, as well as ride around on bicycles
• Inside the classrooms, fine motor skills are used in the ever-changing selection of art and creative activities, paper cutting and gluing projects, coloring and painting using various media, play dough and kinetic sand, moving alphabet, and musical activities.

Language to children is more than expression of thoughts and feelings – it is a means of making sense of the world around them.

Our reading program is based on a strong foundation of phonics. From phonics instructions to reading books together, tracing or writing, your child is immersed in many rich activities each day to support their emerging early literacy skills.

Along with learning sounds, children simultaneously learn to hold a pencil and control its use. We have many games and toys to help children get an early jump on cultivating their language skills:

• The movable alphabet helps teach different sounds and form words.
• Storytelling combines listening with imagination and participation, as children can put together pictures showing the events in the story.
• Reciting poems helps learning sounds and increases attention span.
• Reading sentences and later books smooths the transition from sounds to syllables to words for beginning readers.

Our activities introduce simple science to children from their earliest age:

• Gardening and Botany for preschoolers: Watering and observations of plants and flowers growth, planting and harvesting our vegetables are combined with hands-on experiments.

• Cooking class.

• Animals and Insects, Life cycles – supported by a zoology enrichment program

• Your child’s mathematical thinking moves beyond understanding simple patterns and counting. Teachers help your child learn problem-solving strategies and how math applies to everyday life as they play and explore using common objects. Children love to organize, categorize, and explore patterns in the world around them.

  Concrete materials are used to introduce mathematical concepts. Children build their abstract mathematical reasoning skills on these early concrete experiences. They learn how a numeral represents an amount. They manipulate objects to see concrete operations like addition and subtraction. Children unlock the world of mathematics with ease at WHCA.

• Cultural geography

• Solar system for preschoolers

Our approach creates experiences for children in both large and small groups, giving them many opportunities to communicate, interact, learn, and play together. Children who have the ability to relate successfully to others through skills such as empathy and perspective-talking, taking turns, sharing with others, following rules, and respecting others are able to develop better friendships and are less likely to be bullied when they go to elementary and middle school.

The inner feelings largely affect the way children interact with the outside world. We approach with LOVE by:

• Raising self-esteem and creating opportunities for the child to socialize through play with others
• Helping children to find the source of their negative emotions, if any.
• Supporting and encouraging arts, music, and literary expressions.