Fine Arts Preschool



Address: 111 North Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Mailing Address: Civic Arts Education, 111 N. Wiget Ln, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Phone: (925) 943-5846
Fax: (925) 988-9907

Class Information, Fee Schedules & Registration Forms
School Year 2011-12 Registration Form
 

Fine Arts Preschool

The Fine Arts Preschool is a developmental early childhood program using an integrated curriculum of visual art, music, movement, and dramatic activities as a base for meaningful, experiential and creative learning. The program provides a safe, nurturing environment that promotes the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development of each child.

We offer two programs during the year. Our school year program will be in session from August 30, 2010, through June 3, 2011. We also offer a summer session. There is a ten-week session for the Toddler class and two five-week sessions for the Young Preschool and Preschool.

Program Goals

  • To enhance a positive self-image, a sense of self-worth and self-direction.

  • To provide appropriate learning experiences through play and the integration of arts through a balance of teacher directed and self-directed activities that will contribute to the needs of children in all areas of development: socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively.

  • To provide meaningful experiences for the children as a basis for developing learning skills and concepts.

  • To recognize every child as being "unique", valuing their emerging ideas and individual efforts, along with their need to learn, explore and discover at their own pace.

  • To facilitate learning in an environment in which children are free to learn through concrete experiences and take responsibility for their own choices.

  • To foster responsibility, respect, empathy, and care for the environment.

  • To value the diversity of the community we serve and maintain open communication and understanding with the families in our community.

Curriculum

Ours is a sequential age-appropriate curriculum using the visual arts, music, movement, and dramatic activities to develop creativity. For example, within our visual art curriculum we will use glazed clay, painting, drawing, building, and assembling to develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, in addition to shape and color recognition. Moving to music and inventing dances, counting out the number of beats, and listing to patterns encourage listening and early number recognition skills. Animated story time, creative dramatics, and puppets promote imagination, language, and social skills. Children are exposed to a wide variety of resource materials for art, drama, movement, and music.

Class Information and Fee Schedule - School Year 2011-2012

Toddler Program Ages 24 to 33 months* Tuition
MW am 8:30 am to 11:30 am $2,556 tuition per school year (9 payments of $284)
T/TH am 8:30 am to 11:30 am $2,745 tuition per school year (9 payments of $305)

Young Preschool Ages 34 to 45 months* Tuition
T/TH am 8:30 am to 11:30 am $2,250 tuition per school year (9 payments of $250)
T/TH pm 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm $2,250 tuition per school year (9 payments of $250)

Preschool Ages 46 to 57 months* Tuition
MWF am 8:30 am to 11:30 am $3,456 tuition per school year (9 payments of $384)
MWF pm 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm $3,456 tuition per school year (9 payments of $384)
*by 9/1/11

Calendar - School Year 2011-12

8/25/11 Mandatory Parent Orientation, 6:30-7:30pm
8/27/11 Drop-In for New Families, 10:30am-12:00 Noon
8/29/11 2010-11 School Year begins
9/5/11 No classes - Labor Day
11/11/11 No classes - Veteran's Day Holiday
11/23-25/11 No classes - Thanksgiving Holidays
12/19/11 No classes - Winter Holidays begin
1/3/12 Classes Reconvene
1/16/12 No classes - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
2/20/12 No classes - Presidents' Day Holiday
4/9-13/12 Spring Break
5/28/12 No classes - Memorial Day Holiday
6/1/12 School Ends - Family Festival


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