4-Year-Old Program

Our 4-year-old classes focus on skills for school readiness, providing many hands-on learning activities, letter and phonemic awareness, calendar time, Bible time, working together in groups, large motor skills, fine motor skills, music and playing games.

Daily Program

• Bible Stories / Songs / Moral Character
  Weekly, children are taught Bible Stories, songs. They also spend time talking about and working together on relationships and good character qualities as individuals and as a group.
• Themes
  Each day / week is centered on a theme. From there we plan a craft/ art project, read a book, plan activities and games. Some themes that we will cover during the year are: friendships, nursery rhymes, creation, nature, animals, owls, farms, acorns, seasons, reptiles, Mexico, insects, Noah’s ark, alphabet letters, bugs and more!
• Reading/Language Arts
  Pre-reading and reading activities will be presented such as letter recognition and a portion of Jolly Phonics, rhyming activities, language development skills, reading a large variety of books and acting out stories.
• Math & Science Activities
  Exploring quantity, numbers, counting, one-to-one correspondence, sorting and classifying, graphing etc. Science activities include practicing observation skills, making a volcano, floating objects, activities with 5 senses, and exploring and observing our wonderful world.
• Crafts/Art Projects
  Every day children participate in cutting, gluing, painting, coloring, and creating. Some of the work projects focus on teacher instructed, following directions activities.
• Large Motor Skills
  Gym time is a part of every day. We have 2 large motor areas. One is a 2 story indoor play center and the other a place to ride bikes, play with balls, balance beam, beanbags, basketball hoop etc. One time a week we will have a structured teacher directed time of hopping, skipping, jumping, running, balance, ball handling etc.
• Play/Interest Centers
  40 play centers are rotated throughout the year.

2012-2013 Class Options

Teachers

Class Ratio is 9:1 for 3-year-old classes. The 4-year-old teachers are shown at left.

Registration

To register, download the registration form and mail with the $50 non-refundable registration fee to:
Wheaton Bible Church
Attn: Preschool Director
25W500 North Avenue
West Chicago, IL 60185

Visits & Tours

Call 630.876.6674 now, to reserve a visit to one of the classrooms and see our fabulous teachers and daily routines.