Parkwood YMCA Kid’s Time Preschool Center - Now Enrolling!
Located at 2306 Haslett Rd, East Lansing
Welcome to Parkwood Preschool!
The Parkwood YMCA Kid’s Time Preschool is committed to ensuring that your child’s first educational one is positive. Our fun-filled, individualized program helps children grow academically, physically, and emotionally. Through play, stories, songs, crafts, and more, we assist children in meeting developmentally appropriate milestones. Activities are designed and scheduled to encourage socialization, respect for one another, sharing cooperation, listening skills, independence, and learning through fun experiences.
Individual care will nurture strong beginnings and support developmental growth at a comfortable pace for each child. The YMCA core values of caring, respect, responsibility, and honesty are incorporated into our daily routine to enhance character development. Our goal is to provide a safe, nurturing, age-appropriate environment that encourages individual growth.
Philosophy
Our philosophy at the Parkwood Preschool is that each child is unique in his or her own way of learning and developing. We believe that playing is a child’s work, and that the preschool experience should be full of new experiences and discoveries made during meaningful, facilitated play.
Curriculum
As an early care and education program, the Parkwood Preschool strives to provide high-quality learning opportunities for children ages three to five. In all the classrooms we use a research-based, whole-child approach to education. By fostering all aspects of the child, we prepare them for success in school and life. Teachers individualize instruction to meet the needs of all learners, and encourage meaningful partnerships with families.
Weekly lesson plans are posted in each room to inform families of the range of fun, age-appropriate activities designed to challenge and support growth in learning domains (social/emotional, cognitive, language, dramatic play, art, and gross and fine motor skills). Consistent daily routines help support a child’s emotional comfort and promote opportunities to learn in a hands-on, play-based environment.
To reach our goals we use a blended curriculum including individual, small group and large group activities. Our learning areas include library/quiet area, blocks, art, table toys, sensory, math science, music and movement, dramatic play, and literacy. Materials are arranged so that children can easily and independently make selections that appeal to them. Teachers thoughtfully plan activities that will enhance all areas of development: social-emotional, cognitive, physical, and creative.
How to Enroll
Children may be enrolled at the Parkwood Preschool throughout the year. Children aged three to five are accepted for care on either a full-time or part-time basis.
- Full-time care is defined as care that is delivered five days per week.
- Part-time care is defined as care that is delivered either two or three days per week.
Children are selected for enrollment on a first-come-first-served basis when they submit an enrollment form (with the required fee) for vacancies within the appropriate age/development groupings. To learn more about admission and all other policies at the Parkwood Preschool, download our Family Handbook at the link below. (Ages 2.5-5 years old)
Parkwood YMCA
2306 Haslett Rd
East Lansing, MI 48823
(517) 827-9679
parkwoodpreschool@lansingymca.org
