Little Fish Preschool
"Preparing little ones for what's beyond the fish bowl."
online preschool class
LIVE 30 min. session with the teacher
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Welcome
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Attendance
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Question of the Day
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Bible verse
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Topic of day
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Story
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Puppets
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Music/Movement Time
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Calendar
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Weather
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Teaching Time (Mon. Tue. Wed.)
Activity Time (Mon. Tue. Wed.)
Pre-recorded 20-30 min. class session video with the teacher teaching the activity which is based off of the topic from teaching time
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Craft
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Worksheet
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Science Experiment
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Activity - this can be a puzzle, game, toy, song, book, etc.
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Fishy Friend Time (Thursday)
LIVE 30 min. session with friends and teacher AND 20-30 min. movie that can be watched later.
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Showing and telling crafts, topics, items, etc.
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Talking about the week, their day, just anything to encourage social skills
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Playing games with each other virtually
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Review the topics of the week
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Special educational movie
class schedule
We offer a four day Monday-Thursday class.
class details
Developmentally Age Appropriate
All curriculum and lessons are developmentally appropriate for young children ages 3-5 years old. Mid-year assessments will be provided to parents during our parent/teacher conferences so they may see where their child is at to prepare them for kindergarten.
Small Classes
Our online classes consist of no more than 6 students per class. The reason is to give the teacher more one-on-one time with your child to better know and understand him or her. Plus our students can see their friends' faces more clearly on a bigger screen!
Class Session
Monday—Thursday: 5:00pm—5:30 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
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LIVE 30 min. online class session per day
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Pre-recorded 20-30 min. video lesson per day
*We use the Zoom platform for our online classes
*We may offer another session time depending on enrollment
West Coast Students
We enroll students who reside in the West Coast under Pacific Standard Time. Our students can relate to each other by talking about where exactly they live in the West Coast. Even our virtual field trips are in Oregon which is located in the West Coast where Little Fish Preschool’s physical location is at.
Tuition & Fees
One time enrollment fee at beginning of school year and monthly flat rate tuition payment:
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Enrollment Fee: $120 (one time fee)
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Monthly Tuition: $145 (flat rate)
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No other fees!
Supplies & Materials
We ship to you all the supplies, materials, and curriculum for the school year at no extra cost! Once enrolled, your child will receive their "Little Fish Box" which includes all general supplies and materials for the school year. Every month we will ship you your child's monthly supply box that has all of what they need for the coming month of school.
One-On-One Assessments
Even though we are virtual, assessing our students one-on-one is a must to see where they are at academically. We gather our assessment information for each student by:
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Observing each student during our LIVE sessions.
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Working together by gaining specific vital information from our students' parents.
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Setting up a one-one-one assessment time with the student in December to gather more information.
Parent / Teacher Conferences
In January we have parent/teacher conferences over Zoom where we meet with each parent one-on-one to discuss their child's assessment. The assessment covers where their child is at developmentally and academically in order to see if they are on the right track for kindergarten.
Virtual Field Trips & Special Guests
We film, edit, and create our own Oregon virtual field trips and special guest videos for our students and develop a coloring worksheet that guides the students' learning as they watch the videos. No other online preschool does this except us! These unique videos are always educational, relate to our science themes, and offered monthly for our students to watch.
Special Days & Parties
Special days and parties where our students get a chance to celebrate together are:
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Monthly Color Days - wear the color of the month
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Thanksgiving & Jesus' Birthday Christmas party
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Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, & Easter party
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PJ party & End of the Year party
Special Programs
Our Christmas program and Graduation Ceremony program will be held during the school year. These are performed over our recorded LIVE class sessions, edited, and sent to our enrolled families. See your little one sing, dance, recite poems and Bible verses with their friends!
Fishy Friend Time & Sharing Day
To end our week with a bang, every Thursday we will have an opportunity to talk, share, and reflect on our week together. This is an important time to check-in with each other. We will even get a chance to show off our cool crafts that we created that week at home!
Movie Time
On Thursdays, after Fishy Friend Time, our students watch a special 20-30 min. educational movie. This video is based off of a Bible, science, or other educational theme.
Play Time
Yes, you read this correctly...play time! Playing is the best way children learn. By playing fun virtual games and having toys that children are interested in, little ones will get to play, learn, and interact together.
Bible, Prayer, & Worship
Bible stories, simple Bible verse to memorize each month, daily prayers, and fun worship songs to praise God with. Let's learn about God by praying to Him, singing songs to Him, doing interactive Bible stories, and more!
Arts & Crafts
Mathematics
Learn and recognize numbers, colors, shapes, patterns, and more! In both our LIVE teaching and pre-recorded Activity sessions we count, put together puzzles, use our curriculum workbook, use manipulatives, play games, and more to make math fun for everyone!
Literacy & Writing
Daily book reading is a key feature in our LIVE Teaching Time sessions to expand on our topic of the day. Our students learn to identify letters and numbers together as as class by discussion and games. We also practice writing letters and numbers from our curriculum workbook during our pre-recorded Activity Time sessions.
Basic Life Skills / Social Skills
Our students learn basic life skills such as taking turns, communicating ideas, answering questions, and listening to their friends and the teacher during our LIVE sessions. Young children learn how to raise their hand, wait for the teacher to call their name to speak. Believe it or not, young children are capable of learning these skills even virtually!
Small & Large Motor Skills
Jump, run, stretch, crawl, twirl, and snap! Our class is full of constant daily movement to keep our little ones engaged and to exercise our small and large motor skills (small and large body muscles). Body movement is weaved into all we do and is a must!
Science & Sensory Play
Science in our class is incorporated into simple diagrams, educational books, puppets, dressing our weather bear, developmentally appropriate science experiments, and intentional sensory play. We even play with sensory-based items during Fishy Friend Times.
Music & Movement
Fingerplays, silly songs, and worship songs are a few ways we get to use our voices to sing and move our bodies. Children at this age need to move in order to stay on task, therefore it is no secret that music and movement are embedded into our class sessions.
Our Curriculum
At Little Fish Preschool our online preschool program curriculum has a combination of many types to provide a variety of art, craft, worksheets, science experiments, and projects to our students to make learning engaging and fun! Every child learns differently, therefore, the curriculum we provide is developmentally appropriate for young children ages of 3-5 years old. Our many art and craft projects we have hand-picked and designed ourselves, including familiar Bible-based homeschool curriculum, children's ministry church curriculum, and other early childhood teacher resources to provide our students with the best!
Academic Curriculum
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Handwriting Without Tears
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Sing, Spell, Read & Write
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The Mailbox
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Lakeshore educational books
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Moncure alphabet books
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Other developmental age appropriate resources
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Letter of the alphabet per week
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Monthly number, color, and shape
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Science unit per month
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We provide workbooks designed for each age group in our pre-recorded activity videos: Preschool (3-4 years old) and Pre-Kindergarten (4-5 years old)
Bible Curriculum
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A-Beka
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Gospel Light Ministries
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Rod and Staff Publishing books
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Beginner's Bible books
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Other Bible resources that are age appropriate.
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Every other school year we will rotate and cover these Bible units: Creation, Miracles of Jesus, and Life of Christ.
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Memorize a simple Bible verse each month with movements incorporated with it.
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Prayer / Bible poems incorporated into our daily LIVE sessions
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Worship songs to help up remember God's Word and more!
Curriculum Rotation
Every other school year our curriculum rotates so our students won't repeat the same lessons, however, to provide consistency there will be some familiar aspects.
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The lessons that will be different every school year are our science themes, Bible verses, worship songs, Bible units, general songs, work booklets, most supplies/materials, story books, movie time movies, and pre-recorded activity videos.
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The aspects that tend to stay the same are the layout of our color days, classroom parties, monthly unit (color, number, shape, & letter), some Bible lessons, and educational tools/manipulatives that the teacher uses during LIVE sessions.