Who We Are
Located in the North West Valley, Little Fundamentals is a in-home half-day Kinder Prep program. We cater to students who will miss the cut off date but are hoping to test into kindergarten early as well as children wanting to exceed kindergarten expectations. Learning is done in a small group setting of no more than 4. This allows the students to interact in a classroom setting, while still providing optimal lesson time.
Ms. Patty has been in the Early Childhood development field for over a decade. Her experience has been in multiple pre-kindergarten/kindergarten settings maximizing her knowledge in what’s necessary to capitalize on a child’s best learning environment. Her use of multi-learning techniques enables many different learning styles; it includes hands on/group table setting/individual one-on-one, circle-time, and partner activities. Ms. Patty’s style of teaching is loving, playful, lighthearted, fun and appears effortless, which results in the children believing they go to school for nothing more than to have fun, but the results will speak for themselves, and the children’s readiness in kindergarten will be uncompromised.
Get in touch with us to set up a tour, or use the contact form at the bottom of this page to determine if Little Fundamentals is the new home for you and your child.
Contact
➤ LOCATION
10356 W. Swayback Pass
Peoria, AZ 85383
☎ CONTACT
LittleFundamentals@gmail.com
(623) 606-7614
Our Focus
LANGUAGE ARTS
Our Language Arts program includes four basic concepts:
Stimulating knowledge of vocabulary through listening to stories
Oral language development, enhanced through interactive reading and classroom conversations
An understanding of the alphabet, along with upper-and-lower case letter recognition and each letter’s corresponding sound
Knowledge and understanding about print and its use.
These four basic concepts are the building blocks that inspire reading at an early age.
ARTS
Our Arts program will include three key components:
Art - Students will have the opportunity to experiment with a variety of different materials and tools, using them to express their feelings and ideas.
Music - Will include students singing and dancing to reinforce lessons taught in other areas of study including language arts, mathematics, and circle time learning.
Theatre - We will dabble with theatre through retelling favorite classroom stories with a partner and sharing with the class.
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL
Our Social/Emotional program include five basic concepts:
Self-awareness – Beginning to assess their feelings, interests, values and strengths
Self-management – Gain insight into when and how to self-regulate
Social awareness – Learning about empathy, recognizing and appreciating individual differences and similarities
Relationship skills – Establishing friendships based on cooperation; beginning to work through social disagreements, asking for help when needed.
Responsible decision-making –Showing respect for their classroom, understand consequences for their actions, apply decision making skills resulting in academic success
FINE MOTOR SKILLS
Our Fine Motor Skills Program will include two key components:
Throughout the day there will be multiple activities which will enhance the opportunity to develop your child’s fine motor skills. Developing the small muscles in your child’s hands and fingers will enable them to perform important tasks such as writing, gripping small items, cutting with scissors, and using computer keyboards.
Hand-eye coordination is a very important part of eye tracking skills, which are vital for reading and writing. Puzzles, threading and lacing activities, letter bean bag toss, and stacking blocks are all activities that will enhance hand-eye coordination.
MATHMATICS
Our Math program include four basic concepts:
Counting - Becoming familiar with numbers through counting, number names and number recognition
Addition and subtraction - The development of understanding the concept of combining and taking apart groups of items
Measurement & Data - Hands on learning through comparison of everyday items and objects, classifying, sorting and grouping them into categories;
Geometry - Experimenting with and comparing two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes and discussing their attributes.
FAMILY INTERACTION
Our Family Interaction program will include three key components:
Off-site Family Activities, i.e. field trips - Pumpkin Patch, Wildlife-World Zoo, Butterfly Wonderland, McCormick Train Park. Other options will be up for consideration - Children’s museum, Valley Youth Theatre, Puppet Theatre, etc.;
Holiday and Birthday parties - Christmas, Hanukah, Valentine’s Day, Dr. Seuss’s Birthday, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Individual Children’s Birthday’s
Parent Volunteering in the Classroom
“Ms. Patty gave my child the gift of loving learning”
“By the time my son was in enrolled in kindergarten, he was already well ahead of most of his classmates in-regards-to writing, reading and comprehension”
“Every child should be able to learn from a “Mrs. Patty”
She is kind, understanding, loving, and supportive of any child’s needs”
Let's Chat.
Use the form below to contact us regarding your interest in our Kinder Prep program. Please include your child’s name, age and some facts to help us get you know them. You may also email or call us to schedule a tour.