Kindergarten Readiness

Is your child ready for Kindergarten?

Daily Program & Schedule

9:00am to 2:30pm for children ages 3 to 4 years

At Smart Start, we look to accommodate our parents and their varying needs. We have gotten many requests for a core day program for your children. This would include a morning program that allows your child to engage with others and benefit from a structured routine, while still being able to spend quality time at home with you after school. This will enable them to get ready for school and build confidence in interacting with their peers and teachers allowing for a smooth transition into kindergarten.

Program Benefits

We are introducing a program that is offered to children between ages of 2 1/2 to 4 years from 9 am to 2:30pm (including lunch) Monday through Friday with the exception of Statutory holidays. program runs September to June. The program is child-directed and theme based for that week. The program will include circle time, small group activities and hands-on learning centres designed to encourage growth in all areas of child development. It will focus on literacy, mathematics, art, drama, science and sensory. Circle time will focus on learning through stories, music, movement. Children will have the benefit of a short outdoor gross motor period as well.
Kindergarten Program

The centres in the rooms include:

Reading Corner
Designed as a quiet area encouraging children to become familiar with books and stories.
Dramatic Centre
Designed to allow children to be imaginative, develop social and emotional skills, discover verbal and nonverbal means of communication, and to give expression to the many emotions they may feel.
Science & Sensory Exploration
Including theme based activities for science exploration.
Cognitive Area
Designed to make use of tools such as puzzles to teach sequencing and shape recognition and encourage development of fine motor skills.
Creative Arts
Designed to provide an outlet for creative expression, as well as giving children an opportunity to work with their hands, which in turn helps to develop fine motor skills.
Kindergarten Program

Program Overview

Your child will also benefit from smaller classroom sizes and ratios at 1:8.  

Spots are limited based on capacity, so please call the centre to determine availability.

This program will be located at our 201 Williamson Drive location in Ajax, Ontario in our licensed preschool rooms.

Schedule is from 9 to 2:30pm:

9:00 to 9:30am: Circle Time – Calendar / songs / discussion of weekly themes and learning concepts  

9:30 to 10:50 Programming – Arts/Science/Math/Music Exploration Programming and Small Groups Activities

10:50 to 11:20am: Indoor or Outdoor Gross Motor (d

11:20 to 11:30am: Lunch readiness / washroom break

11:30 to 12:00pm: Lunch (focus on encouraging self-feeding)

12:00 to 12:30pm: Clean up and free play

12:30 to 2:30pm: Individualized activities (this includes rest time for our sleepers and also table top activities for our early risers or non-sleepers)

*Additional Washroom routines are as needed and/or scheduled throughout the day
**Please note that the schedules may vary slightly based on the needs of the children