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KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION
January 2008

St. David’s Preschool offers half-day Kindergarten for families who are looking for an alternative to full day. 

The Kindergarten offers:

A short enough, yet long enough school day:
Meets M-F 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – has extended days until 1:30 p.m. each 
Wednesday and Thursday (included in tuition)

Limited enrollment: 
The class size of 12 students lends itself to small group activity 
and a quieter environment

Identical goals for school with well trained instructors:
Follows the directives set forth in Fulton County for the Kindergarten Curriculum and offers other curricula not included in the county school system

Familiar locale:
The program includes the things that many appreciate from St. David’s Preschool: Music and Movement classes, Chapel, along with playground time and a loving environment.

A longer summer: 
Starts Labor Day week in September

Highlights:
Recipe for Reading (Phonics, sight words, vowels, consonants, 
syllables, journals, class books, and readers)
Mathematics (counting, ordinal numbers, estimation, sets, sequences, size order, writing numbers, number symbols addition, subtraction, and equal, 
telling time, money, measurement, positional words)
Science (senses, earth studies, light, weather, habitats, water cycle, space, fossils, human body, living/non-living classification, plants, animals, hands-on experiments)
Social Studies: (transportation, maps, geography, authors, artists, US leader, flag, pledge, history, other countries: traditions, festivals, foods, and climate)
Handwriting without Tears, Art, Social skills, Evaluation and Assessments

For families who desire the full break-out of curriculum topics, our evaluation form and school year check list are available for your perusal. 

Peggy Fallon, Director (770) 993-1258, or email: preschool@stdavidchurch.org

Philosophy of St. David’s Episcopal Church Preschool

St. David’s Preschool is a ministry of St. David’s Episcopal Church. The Preschool Director is Peggy Fallon. The mission of our preschool is to seek to serve young children and their families in the Roswell/Alpharetta area community. We believe a good preschool program should be based on developmental principles and this will be the basis of designing educational experiences. Our curriculum is directed toward the formation of basic concepts and readiness skills though the use of many varied “hands on”, concrete learning experiences.

A young child’s environment should provide many opportunities for play, exploration, and creative activities which promote skills in problem solving , thinking and reasoning, language and socialization. Much emphasis is placed on a child’s physical development—small and large motor—as this critically affects all other areas of developmental learning.

Above all, we believe that each child is sacred, special, and unique. We seek to meet his or her particular individual needs in a secure, emotionally supportive environment. Every child is treated, at all times, as God’s own and is treated in a fashion which would please Jesus Christ, a lover of children. It is our sincere hope that the children who come to St. David’s Preschool will find a joyful, enriching learning experience that will develop a love for learning and a sense of security that will last a lifetime.

Teaching Staff

The teaching staff of St. David’s Preschool consists of a teaching team of two teachers, each with experience in early childhood education and trained in Infant/Child CPR. The classes meet in the Sunday School classrooms, most of which have small bathrooms between adjoining rooms. The children also utilize the church’s music room and parish hall for Music and Movement, a preschool chapel, and three different shaded, gated, age-appropriate playgrounds.