Pre-Kindergarten Daycare (4-5 years)

Getting Ready for the Leap to Kindergarten

Our LifeSmart™ curriculum was designed to build on your child’s cognitive, social and emotional needs in preparation for the Kindergarten classroom.

LifeSmart™ curriculum

The Tutor Time® LifeSmart™ curriculum is based on extensive child care research and inspired by the work of respected development/early education theorists. The educational curricular activities are aligned with math, literacy, science, creative arts and social science. Tutor Time’s unique features such as our Word of the Month™, Big Book/Little Reader™ and Family Newsletter™ programs allow your child to learn letters and words in ways that are meaningful and engaging. Weekly your child will also be able to explore themes of character through high quality children’s literature with our Creating Character™ program. Also through our Fitness for Life™ program, children will be able to explore themes of physical fitness, health and nutrition, all in a developmentally appropriate engaging way.

We’ve arranged our classroom spaces and experiences into eight distinct ways that children can be intelligent, or our eight “Smarts.”

Tutor Time’s eight “Smarts” are:

• WordSmart: Reading, writing and telling stories
• MathSmart: Logical thinking, patterns and numbers
• BodySmart: Expression through one’s body, movement and physical activity
• DesignSmart^®: Visualization, building, drawing and design
• MusicSmart: Rhythm, signing and creating music
• NatureSmart^®: In tune with physical world and living things
• PeopleSmart^®: Working in groups, sensitivity to others, leadership
• MeSmart: In touch with personal feelings and thoughts

Aligned with standards set forth by national accrediting associations and the Common Core State Standards, the curriculum cultivates all the ways children are smart. Want proof? A recent kindergarten preparedness study showed that children in our program made substantial gains in development and had the necessary skills to enter and excel in kindergarten.

In the classroom

Our classrooms include learning centers full of ways for children to explore and investigate all eight ways in which they are smart, and to build problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Tutor Time teachers supplement these self-directed investigations with large and small group activities that give children the tools they need to grow and develop into the leaders of tomorrow.

For more detailed information regarding the child care, safety and education provided in our Pre-Kindergarten Room, take the Virtual Tour.