Four Year Old Program | Torah Tykes | Teacher-to-student ratio 1:7

The Torah Tykes class consists of 4 to 5-year-old children with a maximum of 14 children per day with two teachers. The goal in the Torah Tykes is to prepare your child socially, emotionally, physically and academically for their Kindergarten experience. The Torah Tykes class is an active class that thrives on learning about kindness. The children are encouraged to build their self-help skills by learning to put away their own possessions every morning, helping to set up for meals, and cleaning up after themselves. We encourage independence within the structure and expectations of the classroom setting. Our teacher brought Letterland to our school well before Wake County adopted it and also uses the program called Learning without Tears as well to teach children letters, letter sounds and writing skills to prepare your child for Kindergarten. While we follow a structured schedule, we still value the importance of play and have free choice time to explore learning through play.  Every day we work on letters and sounds of the week while incorporating a weekly theme as well.  We have table work where we develop fine motor skills such as cutting, writing and building hand strength. We develop math skills through everyday life, calendar skills including counting, patterning, days and months, and specific table work activities. Socially we encourage teamwork and cooperation through kindness.  We understand everyone has feelings, the right to feel them and encourage the children to do so.  As a school, we believe in Conscious Discipline which helps children with the big feelings they have and how to gain self-control of those feelings. We have a wonderful playground where we can run, jump and explore all of our body’s abilities.