Pre-K Program
Four- and Five-Year-Olds
Where four- and five-year-olds become confident learners, ideas take flight, and children prepare for kindergarten with joy and purpose.
Pre-K is the year children become leaders in their classroom. At Rise Above they’re planning projects, working out problems with their friends, and building the literacy, math, and thinking skills that kindergarten will ask for.
Kindergarten Readiness, Built Through Real Work
Children practice early literacy, math, science, and problem-solving through investigation, storytelling, and long conversations with educators and with each other. They ask questions, make predictions, test them, and reflect on what happened. That cycle is what produces readiness: children who can hold their attention on a task, explain their thinking, and keep working when the answer does not arrive right away.
Relationships and Collaboration
Friendships deepen in Pre-K. Children collaborate on projects, negotiate roles, and work through disagreements with growing skill. Educators stay close to coach the harder conversations and to help children express themselves with empathy and clarity, which is the social and emotional groundwork a kindergarten classroom draws on every day.
The Hundred Languages of Children
Our Pre-K classroom draws on the Reggio Emilia approach and the Project Approach, and recognizes that children express ideas through drawing, building, writing, dramatic play, movement, storytelling, and real-world investigation. Children choose their materials and lead projects that matter to them. Educators partner as co-learners and document the thinking, so children can revisit their own ideas and carry them further.
Leadership, Independence, and Confidence
Pre-K children take on classroom responsibilities, lead group discussions, solve problems with their peers, and handle real tasks the classroom depends on. Children who are given genuine responsibility arrive at kindergarten expecting to be capable.
Outdoors Every Day
Daily outdoor exploration keeps children connected to the natural world, gives their projects a larger setting, and builds the strength, coordination, and stamina a full school day requires.
Partnership With Your Family
Kindergarten readiness is a shared project. Through shared documentation, open communication, and regular conversations about your child’s growth, you’ll know where your child is and what we’re working on together.
Visit the Pre-K Room
Tours are by appointment. Come see the classroom and ask how we get children ready for kindergarten.