About Us
Lakewood United Methodist Preschool opened 2010 as an extension of Lakewood United Methodist Church. Lakewood Methodist provides a loving environment for your child to grow, learn, and play. We would love the opportunity to be a part of your child’s early years.
Classes are available:
8:45 am – 1:00 pm – Part Time
7:00 am – 4:00 pm – Full Time
These classes are designed for infants, one, two, three and four year olds, including the free Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK) for four year olds.
We offer Monday through Thursday and Monday through Friday class opportunities for each age group. Our four year old class is the free Monday through Thursday VPK program with an optional paid Friday for extra fun and focused learning.
Our school year follows the Duval County Public School Calendar. We offer 2 weeks of summer camp prior to the start of the school year and 2 weeks at the end. We are closed the rest of the summer.
Curriculum
Our daily schedule includes circle times, snacks, lunch, and recess, but it all revolves around our long directed center playtime. We have several teacher directed centers that our children go to once a week : Fluid Play, Blocks, Dramatic Play, Cooking, Art, Literacy and Math Readiness… Small groups spend an hour and fifteen minutes at the centers that include a short teacher-lead mini-lesson, 45 minutes of independent playtime individually scaffolded for each child, and a closing review of the lesson and activity time. Click here for the link to our curriculum.
Fluid Play
Fluid play uses materials that do not have a set shape: sand, water, shaving cream, crayons, paint, … Fluid play allows children the opportunity to learn to control the outside world so that they can control themselves.
Blocks
Block play builds skills with fine and gross motor strength, mathematical and geometric knowledge and expanded vocabulary.
Art
Art is a wonderful way to experiment with different materials to create a product unique to the artist. We value the artist process over specific teacher lead products.
Dramatic Play
Dramatic Play provides children opportunities to uses higher-level thinking, build peer interaction skills, and tell stories through play. elves.
Cooking
Cooking allows us to pull together math, science, expanded vocabulary, fine motor, and literacy skills into one rich multisensory experience.
Literacy & Math Readiness
Literacy & Math Readiness practice is embedded in all of our center areas, circle times, and however when children participate in this center, they have even more practice building their skills through games, writing, counting, reading, and lots of fine motor practice!
Our Classrooms
We have five classes, one class for each age group: infants, 1's, 2's, 3's, and 4's (based on the child's age by September first). In addition to time in their classrooms, children also spend time around our campus: the small playground, "Jake's Place" playground, the gym, the chapel, the block room, the dramatic playhouse, and the fluid alley(for sensory play) behind the children's building.
OUR INFANT CLASS: THE OWLS
OUR TODDLER CLASS: THE PANDAS
OUR TWO-YEAR-OLD CLASS: THE BUMBLEBEES
OUR THREE-YEAR-OLD CLASS: THE FROGS
OUR FOUR-YEAR-OLD & VPK CLASS: THE MONKEYS
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