MOONBEAM Parent/Toddler
Ages: Walking – 3 yrs.
Ratio: 6 to 1
Length: 30 min/wk
Cost: $48/month
Classes have a very cheerful and fun atmosphere and allow you to spend uninterrupted quality time with your child, while engaging in exciting themes (see Big Dipper) and working toward developing many skills. (Little Dipper) At this age, it is extremely advantageous for you to be involved in class. You can help your child follow directions so they do not have to wait for an instructor’s undivided attention. This allows the child to cover a larger variety of skills within a shorter time period.
2023-2024 School-Year Schedule (blue)
2024 Summer Schedule
Little Dipper
Ages: 2 1/2 – 3 1/2yrs.
Ratio: 4 to 1
Length: 30 min/wk
Cost: $48/month
Pre-school classes have a very cheerful and fun atmosphere while participating in various themes (see Big Dipper) and lessons that are carefully planned out by instructors to provide your child with the most all-around physical and developmental benefit. Skills Developed Gross, Fine, & Locomotor Skills; Sustained Movement; Laterality; Directionality, Eye-Hand & Eye-Foot Coordination, Ocular Pursuit, and Kinethesis. Our Program aids in reading readiness skills as well.
2023-2024 School-Year Schedule (blue)
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BIG DIPPER Developmental Gymnastics
Prerequisite : None Ratio: 5 to 1
Ages: 3 1/2 – 4 1/2 yrs.
Length: 45 min/wk $64/month
Cost: $60/month.
Along with creating a cheerful atmosphere and teaching many developmental skills (see Little Dipper), our Big Dipper instructors incorporate fantastic themes! These themes keep classes exciting and empower children to learn more while using their imaginations!
Some examples of our Great themes:
“Hawaii”, “Circus”, “Sideways”, “Jumping an Hopping”, “Under the Big Top”, “Outer Space”, “Stretch & Tuck”, “Fiesta”, “Sports”, “Traffic Safety”, “Disney”, “Super Heroes”, “Under the Sea”
In order to attain the goal of each child learning and refining the above listed skills, we utilize a large variety of developmental aids; such as mats, preschool shapes, jump ropes, hula hoops, balls, directional arrows, etc. Along with the use of equipment, we utilize over 20 various themes so the children are simultaneously intellectually stimulated while also physically developing the various physical skills as well.
2023-2024 School-Year Schedule (blue)
2024 Summer Schedule (yellow)
Some of the equipment we use on a weekly basis:
Various pieces of gymnastics apparatus, including specialty flooring and mats,balance beams, parallel and uneven bars, trampolines, spring boards, and more. We also incorporate various skill shape mats and equipment; such as a variety of octagons, donuts, trapezoids, rectangular shaped mats, wedges, stair steps, giant foam pit, ball pits, noodles, jump ropes, hula hoops, climbing rope, monkey bars.
We’ve spent nearly 25 years providing preschool children one of the safest, most fun and exciting ways to learn important developmental skills such as
1) hopping,
2) skipping,
3) jumping,
4) developing, arm, leg and core strength, as well as traits like,
5) socialization
6) following directions
7) gaining knowledge on the various themes with hands on activities
8) developing self-esteem and self-confidence, we recognized that there are more pieces to the puzzle, for the overall best chance of success for ALL CHILDREN.
Within SFTS current preschool developmental program, we house a large variety of equipment which aids in the development of various gross and fine motor skills, among others. This program primarily focuses on the development and refinement of skills such as:
*Gross Motor Coordination which results from the development of the skeletal or large muscles to produce efficient total body movement.
*Fine Motor Coordination results from the development of small muscles to the degree that they may perform specific tasks such as writing, cutting, grasping.
*Locomotor movements are performed when moving the body from place to place such as hopping, jumping, skipping, running and climbing.
*Sustained Movements are motor skills executed consecutively for a number of times or an interval of time.
*Laterality is internalizing of the difference between left and right (the ability to control the 2 sides of the body together or separately)
*Directionality is the awareness of space outside the body and involves knowledge of direction in relation to RIGHT & LEFT, IN & OUT, UP & DOWN. Also, judging distances.
*Eye Hand & Eye Foot Coordination
*Ocular pursuit is the ability of the eyes to work together to track and object or focusing from one object to another.
*Kinethesis is the awareness of muscular movement and expenditure of energy when a skill is performed.
We’re thrilled to inform you that these skills are very similar to the components of Reading Readiness according to Frost and Kissinger in “The Young Child and the Educative Process” and Spache in “The Teaching of Reading.”