Our Curriculum
Wexford Academy Preschool is accredited by the Pennsylvania Board of Education and founded by Dr. Robert Prazer. Our new facility is designed to meet the needs of 3, 4 and 5-year old children. Our mission is to provide a learning environment that will add to the lives of each student. Utilizing hands-on activities, our curriculum was developed to engage and encourage your child.

At our Preschool, we provide our students with the educational foundation needed for future academic success. At our academy your child will learn through play experiences while gaining the necessary
pre-skills for reading, writing, math and science. Wexford Academy utilizes large (entire classroom) and small (2-4 students) group instructional time during their daily schedule.

Daily Activities Include:
  Promoting Individual Creativity and Self Expression
  Pre-Reading and Pre-Math Skills
  Science and Creative Art Centers
  Spanish and Sign Language Instruction
  Small and Large Muscle Skills
  Social Development
  Problem Solving and Analytical Thinking
  Daily Language and Literacy Expansion





Wexford Academy
Preschool
We regard each child as an individual and
provides learning and play opportunities that
build on their strengths and creative abilities.
What is Integrated Visual Learning?

At Wexford Academy Preschool, we know that gifted
learners are often visual learners. Gifted learners can
easily make pictures in their minds of what they are reading, instructions they are being given and consequences of their actions.  The staff at Wexford Academy  Preschool work to help all of our students learn like gifted learners learn.

Integrated Visual Learning combines the vision procedure with cognitive processing drills and motor skills. This combination creates a unique program designed to strengthen students' visual learning.  This allows a child to create maps and webs in their mind when learning.


Gross Motor

Wexford Academy Preschool utilizes a fantastic indoor gross motor space. The 25 x 25 foot space with raised ceiling allows for endless movement activities all year long! Students work on balance, body awareness, directionality (top, bottom, left, right), coordination, and spatial orientation.
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Wexford Academy Preschool's proven curriculum is designed to enhance the typical preschool experience. With the ever increasing demands of academia, our curriculum prepares your child to enter kindergarten with all the necessary pre-skills needed to be successful.

Our classroom is designed to include center based learning activities. Children are provided with time each day to explore and discover each area. Each center is modified regularly to incorporate the current lesson being covered within the curriculum.
Weford Academy's Certified Reading Specialist provides individual activities based on each students level.
Hands on Learning Centers include:
Discovery

This center provides children with the opportunity to explore different materials that help them develop and practice their fine-motor and perceptual-motor skills, such as: grasping, releasing, pushing, pulling, assembling, and disassembling. Additional objectives of this center include: reinforcing computational and problem-solving skills as well as patterning, sequencing, size, and measurement. When categorizing and sorting materials found at this center, children are also exercising their mathematical and logical thinking.
Blocks

The Block Center provides children with materials for designing and building, organizing projects, and implementing them. Children learn about shapes, sizes, and distances. They develop eye-hand coordination as well as logical/mathematical thinking. They also practice classification, measurement, fractions, order, balance, symmetry, stability, and cause and effect. In their creative and imaginative designs they find similarities with the real world. By interacting and cooperating with other children they are able to develop their social skills.

Science and Math

Along with manipulatives, games and experiments, this center also includes a sensory table. Materials used include sand, water, pebbles, snow and cotton along with such things as funnels, strainers, etc.  This provides children with the opportunities to develop their fine motor skills. While performing simple experiments, children are actually solving problems and developing logical thinking.
Creative Art

This center provides the children with opportunities to creatively and imaginatively discover line, color, shape, and texture by seeing and feeling objects. The variety of materials enables them to have sensory experiences such as expressing their own thoughts and ideas through picture making, puppetry, modeling, constructing, painting etc.

Dramatic Play

This is a center of social interaction, where children interpret roles of their everyday lives. Throughout the school year this center changes into different settings depending on the unit of study, therefore allowing children to take on different roles. Main objectives include: developing social skills such as communication, negotiation, problem solving, as well as improving children´s representational skills, where they show what they know, and most of all their interest and likes.
Library

This center is designed to be a
comfortable space where children relax,
enjoy, and explore books. It surrounds their reading experience in a calming and enjoyable mood. The Library Center provides children with opportunities to hold and read books, to participate in non-verbal communication, interpret pictures and text, and to talk about what each of them discover. Through meaningful experiences at this center, children will come to feel motivated about a ¨true¨reading experience.