Pre-K Education

Our Pre-K classroom serves ages 4 and 5, with a staff to child ratio of 1:10. We provide the children with the Highscope curriculum and weekly themes and a letter per week from September to May. Our focus in this classroom is provide the children with activities to help them transition to Kindergarten. Our teachers are in partnership with local districts’ transition meetings to successfully provide children with kindergarten readiness skills. We provide a smaller group setting to help meet individual needs as well as providing group activities. We focus on social development and language and literacy as well as motor development by providing indoor and outdoor experiences. Children go on several field trips throughout the year with and without our Preschool classroom. They have explored the St. Vincent Planetarium, Apple Hill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Zoo, pumpkin patch, Carnegie Science Center, Natural History Museum, etc. We provide at the end of the year a Pre-Kindergarten Graduation ceremony, and many children remain in our care until that first day of Kindergarten.

Ages 4 and 5
Adult to Child ratio 1:10
Parent / Teacher conferences conducted twice a year
Lessons planned with individual goals cross-walked with Preschool and Kindergarten PA Early Learning Standards
Children are taken outside daily, weather permitting
Teachers participate in local school district’s transition meetings
Observations and Assessments conducted throughout the year
High Scope curriculum with an emphasis in school readiness
Areas include making thought out choices, independence and social skills needed for next transition
Field Trips taken throughout the year to accompany learning experience

Tracey: Tracey has been with TLC since 2013, and has over 20 years experience working in childcare. Tracey has her Associates Degree in Early Childhood education. Tracey is one of the teachers in the Pre-K Room. She is married with a son Billy, and her granddaughter Olivia.

New Year’s Day: Wednesday January 1; TLC will be closed.

In-Service Day- President’s Day: Monday February 17; TLC will be closed.

Good Friday: Friday April 18; TLC will be closed.

Easter Monday: Monday April 21; TLC will be closed.

Memorial Day: Monday May 26; TLC will be closed.

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As a working mother who also commutes, I am thankful for Today’s Learning Childcare every single day as their wonderful teachers have helped me to raise a wonderful, kind, and bright daughter. As the saying goes, “It takes a village to raise a child,” and TLC has helped to show me how true that is. I put my daughter in the TLC daycare at six weeks old, and now that she is two and a half, the teachers at TLC have become part of our family. One of the greatest comforts that I have had over the past two and a half years is that there has not been a single day that I have worried over leaving Stella at TLC. I know that while there, her teachers love and care for her and have helped her achieve all of her milestones. At two, she speaks in complex sentences, counts over ten, and sings a number of songs—all skills that TLC has reinforced and helped her to develop. Her teachers also come up with great activities for the children to do throughout the year: from cookie decorating to ice cream parties to weekly painting. And, my daughter has been bringing crafts home almost every day since she was one. I cannot begin to describe how grateful I am to know that my daughter is in a comfortable, loving, and educational environment and with teachers that I consider her second moms. I honestly don’t know what I would do without TLC. Thank you all for everything you do for my little girl!~ Erin (Parent of Older Toddler Room)