- Clean Classrooms: Include a personal place for your child’s belongings, organized learning centers, disinfected toys and play areas, and child-sized sinks for washing hands
- Certified Teachers in: Infant/Child and Adult CPR, and First Aid
- Glass Walls: Unlike typical day care centers or childcare providers, our classrooms feature tempered glass walls for maximum visibility and safety. This promotes an open, bright atmosphere, as well as a clean environment
- Safety Guard on Door Hinges: Our doors are padded at the hinges so that little fingers don’t get pinched when doors are opened and closed between classrooms
- Regular Drills for: Tornado, fire, hurricane and school lock-down
Our Preschool Childcare Program
Providing an advanced educational foundation for a higher level of success
Available to children beginning around 3 years old.
At Kids ‘R’ Kids Concord Learning Academy, we understand your eager preschooler is ready to go all the time. Rest assured, our accredited preschool program is well-equipped for this energy and constant thirst for knowledge. Our goal is to ensure that every child receives an accelerated foundation preparing them for elementary school. We exceed your typical daycare in Concord by further providing your child with the environment, nutrition, safety, and tools they need to keep their active minds growing and learning.
What We Provide Our Preschoolers
• Developmentally-appropriate practices — Each guided activity, station and procedure is tailored to fit a growing, eager preschooler. We prepare children for elementary school and beyond by building the foundation they need to thrive. Each day, the classroom participates in activities that are customized to each child’s abilities and growth
• Hands-on involvement — By using teacher-directed and self-directed activities, children are encouraged to learn through engaging, hands-on approaches that allow each child to explore their surroundings
• Decision-making and problem-solving skills — Starting at this age, children learn not only to react to their surroundings, but to anticipate, decide, and solve the problems in front of them. Our program offers them a safe, nurturing environment for them to begin building these important skills
• Character development — Emotional, behavioral, and social skills are developed through our program to help your child grow into a healthy, happy, and well-adjusted citizen
• Vocabulary — Preschoolers in our program will learn to build and grow their vocabulary in preparation for Kindergarten and beyond
• Social-emotional activitie — As they are growing, preschoolers are learning how to display their emotions and interact with their peers and teachers. Our program is developed to further guide your child’s social-emotional growth through positive interactions with those around them
• Literacy skills — Learning to read is an exciting time in a child’s life! Your preschooler will start putting their alphabet skills to work as we learn to read together in group and individual times
• Small group instruction — Using small group time to explore new concepts and activities increases your preschooler’s chances to explore with positive guidance while learning to cooperate and work together with their peers
Key Features of Our Preschool Childcare Program
Life is an adventure when you are a preschooler. Our Learning Academy provides plenty of opportunities for your preschooler to explore and grow. The sounds of children laughing and playing are the sounds of children learning at Kids ‘R’ Kids.
Safety
Security
- Electronic Security: Coded entry so only authorized visitors may enter the facility
- Hiring Process: All staff undergo extensive state-mandated background checks
- Front Desk: Our front desk is always staffed so that a watchful eye is supervising the facility, ensuring authorized entries only
- Security Cameras: Every classroom in our facility has security cameras that are monitored at the front desk. The owners and staff can easily observe classroom activities throughout each day. Families can login to a secure, password-protected website to check in on their child periodically
Meals
- Children eat all meals together using family-style seating in our kid-friendly café
- Teachers monitor all eating times
- Meals are prepared in our commercial-grade kitchen, which is kept separated from the classrooms
- Each day, our in-house chef prepares nutritious meals that exceed USDA guidelines
- All allergies are documented and kept in the front office with administrators
- Our school is a nut-free zone
Jenni & Jett
“Jett struggled with food allergies in his first day care. Now with Kids ‘R’ Kids, I feel confident with his care.”
Daily Activities in our Preschool Childcare Program
Our programs emphasize the development of every aspect of curious preschoolers through our whole-child approach! We facilitate Brain/Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Physical and Behavioral Development, while aiding in the enhancement of communication, language and literacy skills.
Brain & Cognitive Development
At the successful conclusion of our Preschool Program, your child will:
- Understand quantity and numbers, as well as the concepts of distance, weight, dimensions, and time
- Create patterns, understand spatial relationships, shape concepts and use mathematical problem solving
- Demonstrate scientific inquiry skills
- Demonstrate knowledge related to physical science
- Demonstrate an understanding of community, culture, ethnicity and geography
- Demonstrate an awareness of community economics and how events are related
- Participate in dance, visual arts, voice and drama while exploring the use of instruments and objects to express creativity
Social & Emotional Development
With the aid of our highly skilled teachers, your child will:
- Develop self-awareness
- Engage in self-expression
- Demonstrate self-control
- Develop relationships and social skills with adults
- Develop relationships and social skills with peers
Physical Development
Through a blend of engaging activities both inside and outside of the classroom, your preschooler will:
- Practice safe, healthy habits
- Participate in activities related to nutrition
- Demonstrate an awareness of the body in space and its relationship to objects in space
- Use senses to explore the environment and process information
- Develop gross motor skills
- Develop fine motor skills
Behavioral Development
Before moving on to Kindergarten, we’ll ensure that your child:
- Demonstrates initiative and self-direction
- Demonstrates interest and curiosity
- Sustains attention to a specific activity and demonstrates persistence
- Engages in a progression of individualized and imaginative play
- Demonstrates a cooperative and flexible approach to play
Communication, Language & Literacy
By the successful conclusion of our Preschool Program, your child will:
- Listen to conversations and demonstrate comprehension
- Acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories, and/or books
- Use non-verbal communication for a variety of purposes
- Use increasingly complex spoken language
- Demonstrate increasing knowledge of the alphabet
- Demonstrate awareness of print concepts
- Use writing for a variety of purposes
- Acquire meaning from a variety of materials read aloud
- Develop early phonological awareness
Our Exclusive Fast Track Curriculum® for Preschool
Our preschoolers are on an accelerated track to acquire literacy and cognitive skills through our standards-driven, play-based Curriculum. They are immersed in an abundance of hands-on, multisensory activities designed to advance learning. Preschoolers thrive in orderly, well-organized classrooms with schedules that allow for a balance of active and quiet activities.
All subject areas are covered in the Fast Track Curriculum® so preschoolers experience language arts, science, math, social studies, health and physical education. They participate in whole-group, teacher-directed and skills-building learning experiences. These skills are further defined during independent, child-led learning station activities while the teachers are interacting to reinforce the learning acquired during whole group activities.