PRE-K PRESCHOOL - 3 to 5 year olds
Cathy O’Rourke, Head Teacher came to the Children’s Campus in December 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Early Childhood Education. She brings to the Children’s Campus over 20 years of experience with young children and their families.
Cathy O'Rourke provides opportunities for the children in her class to demonstrate their newly developed self-help skills. The play of three-year-olds continues to be parallel (next to a peer) or with one or two children. The older preschool room is the place for children who are one or two years away from kindergarten and toilet trained, ready to make the transition from toddlerhood to the preschool years.
- Their ability to use more language and to attend for longer periods of time
- Their social awareness of each other and their ability to interact in longer, more complex ways
- Their love of new ideas and experiences through exploration
- As these children will be going to kindergarten for the next year, independence in social and self-help skills is taught and encouraged.
