Mission Campus
Preschool

Our HighScope, play-based curriculum fosters engagement, development, and inquiry to encourage a lifelong love of learning.  Guided by a belief in a caring, supportive, safe environment, we provide students with a broad range of educational opportunities to promote an early start for school success and to enrich each child’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and creative abilities.

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Classrooms regularly participate in the Creations by Kids art program, developed by longtime preschool staff Debbie Smith. CBK uses the “process art” approach, where children explore freely with art materials without worrying about correctness or imitation. Each child’s creation is valued as unique and exciting. The program also enhances children’s language skills through discussions on shape, size, color, and texture. It extends art learning with open-ended questions and conversations about various artists and their styles.

In addition to the music the children experience daily in the classroom, our music teacher Mary Van Thullenar visits each class once a month. She follows the key experiences in the HighScope music guidelines, including:

• moving to music
• exploring and identifying sounds
• exploring the singing voice
• exploring musical instruments
• singing songs

The Movement Is Fun (MIF) program, designed by Young & Keplinger for preschools, focuses on enhancing children’s natural growth and development through movement exploration and sensory integration. It teaches children about body movement, muscle function, and the ability to plan and execute movements. Each child engages in the program twice monthly throughout the school year. Minimal equipment is used in order to encourage concentration on bodily movements rather than machinery. Mary Van Thullenar facilitates the MIF sessions.