Preschool Enrichment Offerings

Preschool Enrichment Offerings for the Hillside, IL area.

Discovery Animal Detectives/Spanish

Open to Juniors and Seniors
A STEAM Class devoted to all things related to animals!
Mondays, 11:15am - 1:40pm (Lunch Included)

NEW! We will be combining our popular Animal Detectives class with an introduction to the Spanish language! Children learn about a different wildlife habitat and its inhabitants each month. We put on our detective hats and find animals that live in the rainforest, the desert, the ocean, the arctic! Students learn about animals, their biomes, and how the animals have adapted to live in their surroundings. This class is science-based with literacy, art and Spanish woven into the curriculum! Spanish vocabulary will include animals, colors, numbers and more!

Discovery S.T.E.A.M. Preschool Enrichment

A Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math enrichment class.
Open to Juniors Thursdays, 11:15am-1:40pm
Open to Seniors Wednesdays, 11:15-1:40am

Our STEAM class is designed to foster critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity. We integrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math in a student-centered format, while acquiring problem solving skills and confidence. The Junior and Senior classes are developmentally appropriate by age.

LaPetite Masters Preschool Art Enrichment

Open to Juniors Tuesdays, 11:15am-1:40pm
Open to Seniors Thursdays, 11:15am-1:40pm

Welcome to your child’s first hands-on art history class! The teachers will explore great artists (e.g. Salvadore Dali, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh and more) as well as various art techniques (e.g. modern, impressionist, pointillism). The children will learn simple art terms, and experience color, shape and texture each week using natural materials and mediums such as paint, clay, chalk, charcoal, and watercolors. Skills acquired include visual perception, critical thinking, language acquisition, vocabulary and problem solving. Increase your child’s love for art and artistic expression! We end the year with a gallery exhibition/art show!

BookWorms Preschool Enrichment

Open to Juniors Wednesdays, 11:15am-1:40pm
Open to Seniors Tuesdays, 11:15am-1:40pm

Book Worms is designed to increase children's love for literature and books while enriching their language arts skills and other subject areas within the Illinois Department of Education Early Learning and Development Standards.

Our BookWorms Preschool class focuses on identifying and comprehending the important building blocks of literacy and language including rhymes and phonemic awareness through popular authors and illustrators. The children will focus on classic authors and their writing style; (i.e. Eric Carle, Leo Lionni, Audrey Wood, Doreen Cronin)!

The children will explore language arts, art, science and math through literature. The children will also focus on classic illustrators; learn how illustrators illustrate books as well as learn to illustrate their own books.

The children will develop and explore their knowledge of rhyming words and environmental words and phonemic awareness. Beginning reading skills are explored through simple sight words, journaling, charting, graphing and much more!

Discovery Kids Explore America Preschool Enrichment

A Friday Morning Enrichment Class for Juniors and Seniors, 8:45am-11:15am

Road Trip! Each month our students will visit a different state across the U.S.A. learning about social studies, geography, science, as well as art meeting the S.T.E.M standards for preschool.

Students journey across the U.S and "explore" different locations via books, maps, cuisine, videos and art, which are brought to life in the classroom. The Science activities will channel your child's enthusiasm in a high-energy, hands-on manner through age-appropriate experiments. They might learn about simple machines and make their own cars studying Michigan (Detroit), or create and then dig their own fossils learning about South Dakota's Bad Lands. The curriculum emphasizes the child's role as an active learner and experimenter, allowing students to learn by doing.

Children will be challenged and energized by this project-based class, learning by what they do best - play! The classes flow from one to another, such that a geography lesson on Florida's peninsula leads into a science lesson focusing on oceans and creating waves in a bottle.

Discovery Kids Explore America puts students in the driver's seat for the literacy portions of every class by engaging all their senses to aid in comprehension. This delivers a creative experience that not only fosters an appreciation for music, poetry, drama and rhyming in literature, but also helps children develop techniques for problem solving, conflict resolution and handling emotions. Additional activities challenge students to identify and comprehend important building block language skills such as word families, rhymes, and sight words. This class is project based and continues to focus on kindergarten readiness!

Providing Preschool Enrichment Offerings near Hillside, IL.