Pre-k For All

4 to 5 Years

Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy provides the Pre-K for All program, offering FREE, full-day, high-quality education for children ages 4 to 5 in New York City. Families can apply during the calendar year their child turns four. The program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., five days a week, with options for earlier and extended hours available for an additional fee. This initiative helps children build vital learning strategies they will use in kindergarten and beyond.

The Creative Curriculum

Ivy Prep is proud to implement The Creative Curriculum, ranked #1 for preschool education. Our dedicated teachers focus on preparing children for the transition to kindergarten by fostering confidence, uniqueness, and caring through play-based and hands-on investigations. This research-driven approach incorporates language, literacy, mathematics, social interactions, and active learning throughout the day.

Enhancing Learning Through Exploration

In our Pre-K classrooms, children engage in interactive, project-based investigations that promote critical thinking and creativity. By exploring relevant and engaging topics, children learn to inquire, discover, and think critically, reinforcing their learning not only at school but also with family-friendly activities designed for home reinforcement.

Individualized Learning Experience

At Ivy Prep, we recognize that every child learns differently. Our Pre-K program utilizes a unique color coded progression from The Creative Curriculum to ensure that instruction meets each child’s developmental milestones from ages 4 to 5. This personalized approach allows teachers to create tailored learning experiences that support every child’s journey.

Enroll Your Child into Early Learning Opportunities

Give your child the best start in their educational journey by enrolling them in our Pre-K for All program. Experience the benefits of high-quality, individualized early learning at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy.

Socially we make sure a child

Expresses feelings
Initiates activities with another child
Cooperates with other children, with assistance
Negotiates with peers
Approaches other children positively
States a position with a reason
Shows empathy
Uses pretend play to explore, practice, and understand social roles
Engages in cooperative play
Successfully transitions from one activity/ setting to the next
Shows concern for fairness
Describes own basic physical characteristics
Enjoys the process of creating
Asks others for information
Investigates and experiments with materials
Uses “Why” to get information
Develops personal interest
Joins a play activity already in progress
Remains engaged in activities for at least 10 minutes
Makes up words, songs, or stories
Engages in extensive pretend play
Tells others about events that happened in the past
Works out problems

Communication is gauged by if a child

Focuses on the meaning of words rather than grammar
Uses sentences
Responds appropriately to a request
Has a receptive vocabulary of a several hundred words
Asks the meaning of unfamiliar words
Uses multiple words to explain an idea
Speech is entirely intelligible
Describes a task
Uses past tense
Responds to questions with verbal answers or gestures
Engages in conversation
Tells a short make-believe story, with assistance
Begins to draw representational figures
Identifies some individual letter in a text
Recognizes own printed name uses pictures to predict a story
Identifies major characters in story
Imitates common reading activities

Physically, we track if a child

Crawls through a play tunnel or under tables
Throws a ball overhand with some accuracy
Catches large balls with two hands
Kicks a ball forward
Gallops with skill
Uses various drawing and art materials
Cutting skills progress from inaccurate cutting to proper grasp with some degree of accuracy
Completes increasingly complex puzzles
Writes name
Begins to write some recognizable letters or numbers
Demonstrates concepts through movement
Improves eye-hand coordination
Covers mouth when coughing
Washes and dries hands independently
Takes care of toileting needs and asks for assistance when needed

Cognitive development is tracked by if a child

Asks “why” questions to show effort at understanding causation
Organizes objects by more than one pre-selected characteristic
Applies new information or vocabulary to an activity
Generates a strategy based on one learning event and extends it to a new learning opportunity
Uses symbols or pictures as representation for oral language
Engages in complex make-believe play
Names numerals up to 20 or more
Understands that numbers represent quantity
Recognizes the names of some numerals
Counts at least five objects in one to one correspondence without assistance
Tells what number comes before or after a given number up to ten
Estimates size
Labels objects using size words
Creates, builds, or draws shapes
Orders objects from smallest to largest
Creates patterns
Classifies objects
Uses positional words
Makes predictions
Retells a simple story or event in roughly sequential order
Knows first and last name
Names address and telephone number
Participates in music experiences

Pre-k For All

4 to 5 Years

The Creative Curriculum

Enhancing Learning Through Exploration

Individualized Learning Experience

Enroll Your Child into Early Learning Opportunities

Give your child the best start in their educational journey by enrolling them in our Pre-K for All program. Experience the benefits of high-quality, individualized early learning at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy.

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