East Lake Academy's preschool educational model is designed to encourage a love of learning from an early age. Preschool students are involved in engaging activities that help them learn to communicate and socialize with other children (paragraph 2). The school uses a multi-sensory systematic approach to teaching early learning concepts like letters, sounds, spelling and reading through pictures, poems, songs and read aloud activities (paragraph 3). This provides young students with the best foundation for literacy and engagement (paragraph 4).

1. How East Lake Academy’s Pre-School Educational Model
is Designed for Success
Several of today’s adults may never have attended Pre-School or even kindergarten. However, constant changes and
an increase in the use of technology in schools have made this a crucial part of a child’s education these days. Below
are a few ways in which the educational model at East Lake Academy has been designed to ensure the complete
success of you Pre-school child.
Encouraging a Love of Learning from an Early Age
Research has revealed in many cases that children who have the privilege of being able to attend Pre-School and
then go on to Pre-K from there are able to develop a genuine love of learning very early in life. At East Lake
Academy, Pre-School students will consistently be involved in engaging and fun learning environments and activities,
while being surrounded by other children.
Even the shyest of students will usually open up and slowly start getting involved in the range of Pre-School activities
on offer when they see just how much fun all of the other children are having. During this phase of a child’s life,
activities at East Lake Academy are geared more towards helping children learn to communicate and socialize
instead of academics.
Children in the Pre-School are taught how to get along with one another by sharing classroom toys and activity
items. They are also shown the most constructive methods possible for learning how to handle various forms of
conflict and disagreement through a range of pleasurable and fun structured and unstructured social activities and
projects.
Using a Multi-Sensory Systematic Approach to Early Learning
Unlike many other schools that simply lecture children and expect them to remember everything they have heard in
class, the Pre-School 3 and 4 classes make use of a multi-sensory systematic approach to help teach young children
how to master the basics of spelling, reading and phonics. For example, Pre-K 3 students are taught how to form
lower case letters, while the corresponding letter sounds are presented through the use of pictures to help them
remember each one.
This method of learning is used all the way through to Second Grade, which provides these young students with the
opportunity to reference any keywords they have learned previously. In addition, students get to participate in
weekly poems and finger plays, along with songs and read aloud activities.
All of our educational methods help provide these young students with the very best start in learning to master the
basic foundation of spelling, handwriting and reading in the most engaging ways possible.
If you are the parent of a Pre-School child, chances are that you will want them to get the best educational head
start possible. Enrolling them in our Pre-School classes can do this. Private tours of the school and its facilities can be
scheduled by appointment as well, which will enable you to see how the students thrive by being enrolled in a small
Catholic school. The school can be contacted by calling 847.247.0035 or by completing the website contact form.