About Kinder Prep at Tiny Roots Preschool

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Our Kinder Prep program is designed for children 4-5 years old and is the ultimate step in getting your little learner prepared to enter Elementary School. We provide a very structured and organized classroom setting to help children transition better to a kindergarten classroom. Our lesson plans integrate whole group learning, small group activities, and one on one learning with Miss Kristi.  Students are academically evaluated on a regular basis and taught at skill levels tailored to their needs to encourage academic achievement. 

The last year before Kindergarten is a time of enormous and exciting growth. As a parent, you want your child to enjoy this stage while building the right skills for the steps ahead. We offer a program that gives you both; a teacher who cherishes this important time in our little learners lives, and curriculum recognized by parents and teachers for helping children build the social and academic skills needed to be ready for school. Through hands- on exploration and play, we engage our students in writing, reading, science, artistic expression, math and engineering. Concepts aren't just taught on paper instead they are experienced, played with, and integrated into the minds of our little learners. Our Kinder Prep program makes learning FUN and instills a love of school and learning in our students, so they are ready AND excited to go to Kindergarten!

Tuesdays/Wednesdays/Thursdays

12:15 pm -4:15 pm

Tuition: $315 per month

Class Size: 12 students

Ages 4-5 years old.  Students must be entering Kindergarten in Fall of 2026 to enroll in Kinder Prep at Tiny Roots.

Kinder Prep is taught by Miss Kristi, a state certified teacher with a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education from Arizona State University.

Kinder Prep 2025-2026 School Year starts on  Wednesday, July 30th 2025.

Arrival

STEAM Lab

Circle Time

Math

Snack

Phonics

Free Choice Centers/Small Groups

Writing

Recess

Dismissal

This is what a typical day's schedule in our Kinder Prep program looks like.  Our Kinder Prep program is one hour longer so as to give us time to add in an extra focus on teacher led academics.  We work hard to pass off our academic goals while also still having plenty of time for unstructured and student led play and learning.

Some of the academic skills we work on in Kinder Prep:

Phonics:

-Recognize all uppercase and lowercase letters

-Identify letter sounds

-Determine the beginning sound of a word

-Determine if two words rhyme

-Determine ending sound of a word

-Determine middle sound of a word

-Read consonant vowel consonant words

Math

-Recognize numbers 0-10

-Write numbers 0-10

-Count 10 objects using 1 to 1 correspondence

-Determine more, less or the same

-Addition up to 10 using manipulatives

-Subtraction from 10 using manipulatives

Handwriting

-Write first name

-Write last name

-Write all letters uppercase and lowercase

-Write sight words

-Write consonant vowel consonant words

-Write using invented spelling