Black Bear®Academy

Junior Kindergarten Prep

This program is for you if you want to enroll your child in a half-day kindergarten prep program, 5 days per week, for a traditional academic year that follows our academic calendar. They must be between the ages of 3.5 to 5.0 years of age and demonstrate academic readiness determined by standardized testing. In addition to supporting developmental milestones, the primary focus of this program is establishing a solid foundation of knowledge in key academic areas expected in kindergarten programs. Student to teacher ratio 6:1, class size is limited to 12 and the tuition is $10,500.00.

Black Bear advances language, learning and neurological maturation by exposing children to not only core academics but multi-sensory projects that peak a child's natural curiosity about cause and effect, processes, and inductive and deductive reasoning tasks.
The goal of the Black Bear Program is to support the neurological maturation that takes place for all children from birth to six years of age. This maturation is highly dependant upon the activities that a child is exposed to in that time period. In order to have strong, effective neuro-pathways, efficient encoding and decoding systems and processing centers that effectively interpret a variety of information, a child MUST be exposed to a multi-sensory, multi-modal, play-based approach to learning. Exposure must include activities supporting information in all areas of processing such as auditory information, visual information, sensory information, language (both expressive and receptive), tactile, vestibular, proprioceptive, motor planning, and cognitive among others, in a play-based arena.
Class size must be small and engagement with both peers and adults must be active and supportive to support the exposure for optimal learning and neurological maturation. Pre-literacy and mathematics will be an area of focus in order to facilitate learning that not only requires strong conceptual language skills but supports learning novel, non-arbitrary, information as well.