OUR ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS
FREE ENRICHMENT CLASSES
No family ever has to “pay extra” for your child to be in these classes.
ART APPRECIATION CLASSES ARE DESIGNED FOR THE CHILDREN TO:
- Discuss famous artists, learning facts about their lives and viewing their work
- Have fun pretending to be the artist and creating “class masterpieces” that are displayed in our school
- Develop their own unique style and apply the elements of art to their own work
- Gain appreciation of fine art and the masters that created them
If you are local to Naperville, and interested in coming twice a month to teach a music class for our program, please reach out to our director at LIFPreschool@gmail.com or call our office at 630.357.4836.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES CENTER AROUND VOCABULARY, LANGUAGE, SPANISH CULTURE AND TRADITIONS USING:
- Props and videos to introduce a new language and form of communication
- Themes, words, and materials that are used as a follow-up in their regular classrooms (greetings, numbers, colors, days of the week, family terms, etc.)
- Play and learning songs in Spanish
- Celebration of holidays and special days
SCIENCE CLASSES, WORKING IN SMALL GROUPS, CHALLENGE THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS DOING THE HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS TO:
- Consider what might happen
- Do the experiment and see what actually does happen
- Be amazed with exciting topics from static electricity to chemical reactions
- Stimulate their imagination and critical thinking
THE BEST OF ME! (SEL)
This inclusive and diverse curriculum will consist of teaching important early Social Emotional Learning and life skills such as:
• Learning to accept, love and believe in yourself
• Learning how to accept others and appreciate their differences
• Learning important rules and routines for at school, home and out in public
• Learning how to express your feelings and emotions and how to understand them
• Learning what responsible decisions are and the difference between right and wrong
• Learning how to make friends and show empathy for others
• Learning how to self-regulate in tough situations
• Learning how to problem solve appropriately with others
• Learning how to persevere and never give up
• Learning how to have a growth mindset and understand with hard work anything is possible
• Learning how to work as a team and cooperate
• Learning how to be kind and have good manners
• Learning self-care and self-help skills “Learning life long healthy social, emotional and mental skills.