Preschool Program at The Melbourne Preschool

Learn & Grow Through Our Preschool Program

A Nurturing Pathway from Exploration to Preparation

At The Melbourne Preschool, our programs are thoughtfully designed to meet your child’s developmental needs at every stage of their early years. From the curiosity-driven Ones to the academically enriching Fours, each classroom fosters growth through hands-on activities, imaginative play, and skill-building lessons.

Our goal is to create a joyful and supportive environment where children can explore, learn, and thrive. With age-appropriate curriculums that balance independence, creativity, and foundational academics, we prepare our students not only for their next steps in education but for a lifelong love of learning.

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Explore Our Programs:

The Ones

(12 months to 24 months)

Our youngest classroom is all about exploration! As your little one begins to walk and talk, their drive to climb and touch to discover their environment increases exponentially. This classroom is set up for exactly what your toddler needs: play! With large, squishy gross motor blocks to climb on and build, a playhouse and kitchen for dramatic and imaginative play, a comfy-cozy library corner full of indestructible books, a music section for your little Beethovens and Mozarts, as well as centers for both child-led and teacher-led activities. At this age, some skills we teach and foster include eating with a spoon, drinking from a cup, mimicking sounds, how to follow verbal cues, and how to socialize with new friends.

Curriculum

In The Ones class, our goal is to foster each student’s independence and imagination through play. For language acquisition at this young age, you will often hear singing, or walk by a dance party for developing gross motor skills and spatial awareness. Teacher-led activities include painting, coloring and crafting for tactical and texture exploration, story time, outdoor activities, summer water-play, as well as a plethora of many other nursery-based games.

The Twos

A step up in pace from The Ones class (which follows a more nursery-like curriculum), our Twos classroom is energetic and packed with activities to best meet the evolving needs of your toddler. The Twos keep a busy schedule- with Circle Time for songs and stories to encourage language acquisition, arts and crafts for creative stimulation and fine motor development, as well as outdoor play for physical exercise and honing of gross motor skills. We keep busy with our hands, bodies and minds!

This classroom is packed with toy centers designed specifically for your toddler: a dramatic play area complete with kitchen, baby dolls and costumes, as well as a block and cars area, a quiet-corner library, music, puzzles, and teacher-led centers including art, science, and Circle Time. The most popular center in this class is without a doubt the gross-motor play area: squishy mats with colorful oversized foam blocks for jumping, building and being your best two-year-old self! For outdoor play and exercise, a playground was custom-made just for this age group.

Curriculum

In The Twos class, our teachers have three main goals for their students: language, independence and social skills. Teachers encourage language through introducing new words and songs, foster independence such as eating lunch with a spoon or drinking from a cup, and learning how to clean up our toys after we’ve finished playing. Social skills are learned through daily experiences like sharing and playing with friends, lining up to go outside, or eating a meal together. A big milestone achieved in this class is potty-training! Teachers will work closely with parents to facilitate potty-training, so each student is confident and prepared to move up to the next class.

The Threes

Three years old is the time where academics and imagination collide- and our classroom has been designed around this philosophy. Key features of The Threes classroom include an ever-rotating variety of table-toys and manipulatives to foster fine motor skills, as well as the largest dramatic play area of any classroom: including a mini-living room set for 6, kitchen, handyman workbench and full housekeeping area complete with costumes.

Curriculum

The curriculum here shifts away from physical independence and bodily control, and pivots towards more cognitive and academic activities. Lessons in this class are designed to challenge students, to expand their base vocabulary, problem-solving skills, reasoning and imagination. A more structured Circle Time is introduced to fire up each student’s mind to create a foundational love of learning which they will carry with them throughout their future education and in life beyond school. *Due to the academic nature of the curriculum in The Threes, students must be potty-trained to participate in this program.

The Fours

(Pre-VPK)

This preschool program is designed for students who require a more academically challenging environment, and for students who are not yet old enough to join our Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) program. In The Fours, our teacher works closely with our VPK instructors, to mirror the skills needed so our students transition seamlessly to Pre-Kindergarten the following August.

Curriculum

This classroom revolves around increasingly advanced problem-solving activities and imaginative play. Circle Time becomes more complex and varied, with songs tailored to language, math skills and memory. Students will begin to refine their motor skills by writing letters with a pencil, color inside the lines and practice using scissors- all essential skills in VPK. Spanish is also formally introduced in this curriculum.