Room 1 - Toddler Rooms
1 to 2 Years Old
In this classroom, our teachers strive to create a safe, nurturing, and explorative environment that supports a strong relationship between teachers and children, and amongst the children themselves. This is done by establishing trustful teacher/child relationships while fostering a sense of security and belonging. Our experienced teachers identify and introduce developmentally appropriate practices to facilitate communication between caregivers and your little explorers, thus enhancing their ability to express themselves and connect with their peers, teachers, and the world around them. All of this is made possible with Excelsior’s low child-to-teacher ratios.
Room 2 - Older Twos
2 to 3 Years Old
This specialized program is designed to help our older toddlers explore, learn, and grow in a space that allows for individualized attention and stimulation. Children are immersed in opportunities to discover, develop, and thrive socially, cognitively, and academically through the use of a curriculum that teaches them about buildings, balls, clothes, animals, plants, community helpers, and recycling. Additionally, children are encouraged to use fine and gross motor skills with a focus on penmanship by tracing letters and numbers. Children’s ability to recognize and recall letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and other objects is especially critical at this stage of development.
Room 3 - Three Year Olds
3 to 4 Years Old
The focus in this classroom is on introducing children to a variety of activities to enhance learning, fine and gross motor skill development, social interaction, and critical thinking skills. Children study math concepts, including simple counting, number recognition, quantities, shape identification, and sorting.
Language skill development is equally significant at this stage of development so attention is given to the creation of penmanship skills, including holding the pencil, tracing their names, name recognition, vocabulary expansion, and storytelling.
Science, creative arts, music, and dance are introduced through several curricula studies including plants, animals, community helpers, recycling, balls, clothes, five senses, and other materials that enable our children to develop essential skills and learn about the world around them.
Room 4 - Four-Year-Olds
4 to 5 Years Old
This curriculum focuses on fine-tuning literacy skills while exploring their individual strengths and weaknesses in a team-building environment. This is done through pre- and post-assessments that test children’s knowledge in a variety of subjects including literacy and language, reading, math, and vocabulary. Additional subjects included in the curriculum are science, social studies, and arts.
The state-mandated Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) program is a core part of the curriculum for this classroom. Therefore, students' knowledge, skills, and abilities are assessed using statewide benchmarks that allow us to understand how our students are developing academically in comparison to their peers, nationally. Holistically, this educational experience prepares our children for the next stages of their academic journey while fostering a love for learning and exploration.
Room 5 - Kindergarten
5 to 6 Years Old
The phonic program introduces blends and allows your child to read stories including one- and two-vowel words.
Emphasis is placed on hand-eye coordination through learning to write letters, words, and eventually sentences.
Math with counting and basic arithmetic lessons are a key focus in this classroom as well.
Room 6 - 1st Grade
6 to 7 Years Old
This phonics-based reading program is designed to improve your child’s reading comprehension and speed. The language arts and penmanship program helps your child develop creative writing and grammar skills.
Additionally, students learn arithmetic and problem-solving skills as well as introductions to history, science, and health education. The combination of these subjects enhances your child’s understanding of how the world works.
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Room 7 - 2nd Grade
7 to 8 Years Old
Like the other curricula, the lessons in this classroom are designed to help your child develop a love for learning. The language arts and penmanship program promotes creative writing and grammar skills.
The phonics-based reading program improves reading comprehension and speed. Students will learn arithmetic and problem-solving skills as well as introductions to history, science, and health education.
Room 8 - 3rd Grade
8 to 9 Years Old
Your child will gain a lifelong enthusiasm for reading as he or she learns to read using the school’s phonics-first approach. You’ll see your child master phonics and watch his or her reading comprehension and spelling skills grow as he or she reads delightful stories with character-building themes. At this stage, creative writing becomes a natural outflow as students learn to organize thoughts into sentences and apply grammar knowledge in order to communicate.
Learning and practicing the proper formation of letters and the correct spacing between letters, words, and sentences helps perfect writing skills for a good overall appearance. Learning computation skills, problem-solving skills, and how to apply arithmetic concepts exercise your child’s reasoning and thinking abilities. In science, health, history, and geography, your child learns about the work and he or she begins to appreciate it more as he or she ventures into a biographical study of people who made an impact on America.
Room 9 - 4th Grade
9 to 10 Years Old
With an integrated approach to language arts, your child learns how spelling, vocabulary, penmanship, reading, grammar, and composition work together. Arithmetic leads your child from the known to the unknown with studies of fractions, decimals, proportions, and percents, among other topics.
A study in United States history opens up the world for your child. General science and health education leads students to be good stewards of life and the world.
Room 10 - 5th Grade
10 to 11 Years Old
We will continue their development on integrating language, your child will put into practice all they have learned through their vocabulary and language lessons. As well as developing further their understanding of mathematics, including fractions, decimals, proportions, and percentages.
In science, health, history, and geography, your child begins to appreciate more about the world as he or she ventures into a range of biographical study's of the people who've made an impact on America.
Outdoor Space
All children are given the opportunity to enjoy some downtime by going outside to play. Children are allowed 30 minutes of playtime twice each day: once in the morning and again in the afternoon. Outdoor play can range from nature walks to gardening to free play so it is important that children dress appropriately to accommodate for outside play.
Activities:
Holiday Parties
Birthday Parties
Pizza Fridays
National themed events
Community helpers drop-ins
Read-for-the-Record library events
Charitable donations and food drives
