Sounds before letters
Rhyme, syllables, silly songs and a great deal of reading aloud. Children who can hear how words come apart find reading far easier later — long before they trace a single letter.
Preschool
Letters, numbers, science and sharing — through play, because that is genuinely how three-year-olds learn.
3 – 4 years 6 AM – 7 PM, Mon–Sat 5 meals daily
3 – 4 years
Three is the age of “but why?”
A three-year-old will ask you a hundred questions a day and mean every one of them. That is not a phase to be managed; it is the single best learning tool a person ever owns, and our job is to avoid blunting it.
So the Preschool room runs on real materials and real questions. Children sort, count, mix, plant, build and take apart. Letters and numbers arrive attached to things worth knowing about, and the classroom follows an age-appropriate curriculum aligned to the Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines and the state's early learning guidelines.
Inside the room
What your child does here
Maths you can hold
Counting real things, sorting by colour and size, making patterns, comparing which cup holds more. Numbers make sense when they're attached to something you can pick up.
Actual science
Planting seeds, mixing colours, sinking and floating, magnets, weather. We ask what they think will happen first, then find out together — being wrong is part of it.
Getting along
Taking turns, joining a game, using words instead of hands, repairing a friendship after a hard moment. The most important curriculum in the room and by far the hardest.
Art with intent
Open-ended materials rather than twenty identical crafts. Process over product — and the hand strength that makes writing possible a year from now.
Outside every day
Running, climbing, digging, balancing. Gross-motor play isn't a break from learning; it builds the coordination that later sits still and reads.
Daily rhythm
A day in the Preschool room
Doors open — books and table activities.
Breakfast.
Morning meeting: calendar, weather, story, plan for the day.
Learning centres and small-group work with a teacher.
Snack, then outdoor play.
Language and early maths, hands-on and in small groups.
Lunch, family style.
Rest time; quiet activities for non-nappers.
Snack, then science, art or music.
Second outdoor play.
Dinner.
Free choice and wind-down until pickup.
Packing list
What to bring
- A full change of clothes
- A small blanket for rest time
- Weather-appropriate outdoor layer
- Sunscreen with a signed authorization form
- Comfortable shoes they can run in — no flip-flops
- A refillable water bottle
Meals and snacks are included — you never pack food. Label everything with your child's name; we'll send home anything that needs washing.
Preschool questions
Things parents ask us
Do you do worksheets?
Sparingly, and never as the main event. A three-year-old learns far more from a small-group activity with real materials than from a photocopied page, and the research on this is not close.
Shouldn't they be reading by now?
No — and pushing it this early usually backfires. What matters at three is oral language, vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and loving books. Those are what reading is built on.
What if my child still naps twice, or not at all?
Both happen at three. Texas requires a rest period but no child is made to sleep; non-nappers get books and quiet activities on their cot.
When do they move up to Pre-K?
Usually around their fourth birthday, but readiness matters more than the date. We'll talk it through with you before anything changes.
Visit us
Come see it for yourself.
Tours run every day we're open. Walk the classrooms, meet the teachers, ask us anything — no appointment required, though booking ahead means we'll have someone ready for you.