Class Options:
Monday/Wednesday, 9:30–11:30a
Tuesday/Thursday, 9:30–11:30a

Requirements:
Children must be 2 years old by September 1. Diapers/pull-ups are allowed in accordance with DCFS regulations.

Program Overview:
Our 2s program provides young children with their first structured social experience with peers and teachers. During this important stage, children begin developing essential social skills—such as sharing, taking turns, and making friends. Our nurturing teachers gently guide each child as they explore these new interactions, using their natural curiosity and excitement about school to create a positive and engaging learning environment.

Each day is centered around a carefully selected theme that guides all classroom activities. These themes may reflect a season, holiday, or focus on a fun and age-appropriate educational topic, such as farm animals, the five senses, or the stars and moon.

What to Expect:
Your child’s day begins with free play, in which they can choose from a variety of engaging activity areas designed to support early development:

• Dramatic Play Area: Includes a kitchen with play food, a puppet theater, dress-up clothes, and dolls.
• Sensory Table: Rotating materials such as sand, beans, floam, and more to encourage tactile exploration.
• Small Manipulatives Area: Features puzzles, lacing cards, small blocks, and activities that build counting and color recognition skills.
• Large Motor Play Area: Includes big blocks, a train set, cars, trucks, a barn, and a dollhouse—ideal for active, imaginative play.
• Art Center: Stocked with markers, crayons, chalk, glue, paint, and play dough to spark creativity.

Children also begin learning how to transition from one activity to another, helping them become comfortable with routine and structure.

• Circle Time: Includes stories and music, fingerplays and movement activities, theme discussions for the week, a simple Bible story, introduction to the letter of the week
• Enrichment Activities: participate in hands-on art projects, enjoy special visits from Pastor Brian and other guests, choose their own books during independent reading time after snack, play outside in the play yard, explore movement in our full-sized gym with age-appropriate large motor activities

All of these experiences are carefully designed to help your child interact positively with peers and teachers, become comfortable in a structured setting, and most importantly, have fun while learning.

Class Options:
Tuesday/Thursday, 9–11:30a
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9–11:30a

Requirements:
Children must be 3 years old by September 1. Must be toilet trained in accordance with DCFS regulations.

Program Overview:
Our 3s program provides an opportunity for children to explore the world around them in a nurturing and engaging environment. For many of our students, this will be their first experience in a school setting, and we are committed to making it a positive and enriching one. Our teachers support children as they transition from home to school, helping them build relationships with both teachers and new friends. Throughout the year, we focus on developing essential social skills, such as learning to follow a daily routine, sharing with others, listening to directions, and taking turns during group activities.

Each week, your child’s experiences are guided by a carefully chosen theme. These themes are integrated into daily learning and paired with a Bible story and verse, encouraging both academic and spiritual development. In addition to weekly themes, children are introduced to a “Letter of the Week,” as well as a “Shape, Number, and Color of the Month.”

What to Expect:
Your child will begin to follow a daily schedule that includes free play, where they can choose to explore and engage with a variety of learning centers:

• Dramatic Play Area: Includes a kitchen with play food, a puppet theater, dress-up clothes, and dolls.
• Sensory Table: Rotating materials such as sand, beans, floam, and more to encourage tactile exploration.
• Small Manipulatives Area: Features puzzles, lacing cards, small blocks, and activities that build counting and color recognition skills.
• Large Motor Play Area: Includes big blocks, a train set, cars, trucks, a barn, and a dollhouse—ideal for active, imaginative play.
• Art Center: Stocked with markers, crayons, chalk, glue, paint, and play dough to spark creativity.

Children also have the opportunity to sing songs, play musical instruments, listen to stories, enjoy a snack, and participate in circle time.

Our teachers focus on encouraging good manners, such as saying "please" and "thank you," sitting politely at the table, and waiting their turn, as well as how to wash hands correctly. Consistent routines and smooth transitions help create an organized and welcoming classroom.

Class Options:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday, 9:30–11:30a

Requirements:
Children must be 4 years old by September 1. Must be toilet trained in accordance with DCFS regulations.

Program Overview:
Our 4s program offers children many opportunities to build on their developing skills while continuing their social and educational exploration. Each week, a thoughtfully chosen theme is used in combination with a Bible story to guide your child’s learning and enrich their overall experience. Teachers also introduce a “Letter of the Week” using the Learning Without Tears® curriculum. These concepts are reinforced through a variety of engaging activities, including books, songs, games, art projects, writing exercises, and simple science experiments.

What to Expect:
Four-year-olds follow a daily schedule that includes a center time during which your child may be doing one or more of the following activities:

• Dramatic Play Area: Includes a kitchen with play food, a puppet theater, dress-up clothes, and dolls.
• Sensory Table: Rotating materials such as sand, beans, floam, and more to encourage tactile exploration.
• Small Manipulatives Area: Features puzzles, lacing cards, small blocks, and activities that build counting and color recognition skills.
• Large Motor Play Area: Includes big blocks, a train set, cars, trucks, a barn, and a dollhouse—ideal for active, imaginative play.
• Art Center: Stocked with markers, crayons, chalk, glue, paint, and play dough to spark creativity.
• Science Center: Includes a "tornado" bottle, magnifying classes, scales, and magnets.
• Writing Center: Includes notebooks, journals, pencils, pens, scissors, stickers, envelopes, and cards.

Our learning centers are thoughtfully designed to support your child’s continued development in key areas, including language and writing skills, number and alphabet recognition, fine and gross motor coordination, and social interaction.

During circle time, your child will have the opportunity to engage in discussions related to the weekly theme, listen to stories, sing songs, talk about the weather and calendar, and learn simple prayers—helping to build both cognitive and social-emotional skills in a nurturing group setting.

Class Options:
Monday–Friday, 9:30–11:30a

Requirements:
Children must be 4 years old by September 1. Must be toilet trained in accordance with DCFS regulations.

Program Overview:
Gloryland Preschool’s Pre-K class is designed for four-year-olds who may miss the Kindergarten age cutoff and are ready for a more advanced learning experience. This class places a strong emphasis on early literacy and numeracy skills, offering your child a variety of educational challenges to prepare them for Kindergarten.

Using the Learning Without Tears® curriculum, students will focus on letter recognition, letter sounds, and proper letter formation to strengthen their language development. To build on these skills, children will also be encouraged to write in a daily journal, fostering early writing habits and self-expression.

In math, students will work on number recognition and formation, sequencing, patterning, counting, and introductory addition and subtraction. Creative exploration will be integrated throughout the week with engaging music, art, and science activities.

Each week, children will also learn a Bible story, reinforced through prayer, songs, and meaningful home connections. These experiences are designed to make the most of your child’s growing attention span, allowing for deeper exploration and greater learning across all areas of development.

What to Expect:
The Pre-K class will have the opportunity to engage in enriching, hands-on learning experiences through a variety of permanent classroom centers. These will be complemented by rotating specialty centers introduced throughout the year to support and expand their learning.

• Sensory Table: Rotating materials such as sand, beans, floam, and more to encourage tactile exploration.
• Small Manipulatives Area: Features puzzles, small blocks, board games, counting and alphabet activities, matching games, and phonics games.
• Art Center: Stocked with markers, crayons, chalk, glue, paint, and play dough to spark creativity.
• Science Center: Includes magnifying glasses, scales, and magnets.
• Writing Center: Includes notebooks, journals, pencils, pens, scissors, stickers, envelopes, and cards.

Curriculum highlights include:

• Math: Introduction of word problems and math sentences.
• Science: Hands-on group and individual experiments.
• Reading: Early reading activities support emerging literacy skills, including recognizing color words, number words, and sight words introduced in class.
• Writing: Inventive spelling is encouraged as children sound out and spell words on their own, while also engaging in a variety of writing activities related to weekly themes or seasonal topics.
• Physical Education: Use of a full-sized gym, playground, and various equipment to promote health and fitness while having fun and developing their large motor skills.
• Music: Instruments and music are incorporated throughout the year, along with simple instruction in rhythm and basic musical terminology.