Enrollment Information for Early Kindergarten Program
* Enrolling now for the Early K 2025-2026 school year! * If you are looking for an early kindergarten to bridge the gap because your child has a fall birthday or needs an additional year to work on developmental skills, then call today!
*For more information, please call us at (585) 244-3650
Program Objectives
Kindergarten is a child’s first exposure to a learning community, where they form their basic attitudes toward learning, themselves, and others. Therefore, the Rich Beginnings Child Care Center New York State Registered objectives are to promote learning, foster intellectual curiosity, develop self-direction, and nurture personal and social growth. This early kindergarten program will benefit children who need the extra year before starting kindergarten. This program will also benefit children who have a late fall birthday and are not able to start kindergarten due to the district’s age cutoff.
Learning Approach and Individualization
With a full-day program, we can offer small group sizes that allow children to feel independent yet able to participate and cooperate in a group. We present learning through exploration, testing, and hands-on approaches designed to meet the developmental needs and interests of each child. We challenge children to master and apply basic skills while learning in new situations. Furthermore, we recognize that children grow at different rates physically, socially, emotionally, and intellectually, and we create an individualized plan that is best suited to his/her needs.
Benefits of the Program
This early kindergarten program provides learning experiences that focus on literacy and math with embedded social and emotional learning. This program also focuses on each child’s physical, social, and cognitive development. Our teaching approach uses meaningful learning materials and playtime that are centered around the children’s natural curiosity and desire to learn. Our Early Kindergarten at Rich Beginnings Child Care Center builds foundational literacy skills in small groups.
Early kindergarten provides “the gift of time” to develop all these important developmental skills. Providing children with this extra year program will help build self-confidence and promote success in their academic careers.
Care Policies and Scheduling
If you pay for wrap care, your child may attend “no school” days without extra cost. EK-only children will need to pay for drop-in care if needed on “No School” days. See the office with any questions.