PRESCHOOL
A DAY IN THE LIFE
8:00-8:15 a.m.
Arrival
8:15-8:30 a.m.
Morning Circle Time
8:30-9:30 a.m.
Center Time and Small Group Learning
9:30-9:45 a.m.
Literacy Circle
9:45-10:00 a.m.
Snack & Outdoor Play
10:00-10:35 a.m.
Motor Skills | Library | Bible
10:35-10:50 a.m.
Math and Science Circle
10:50-11:40 a.m.
Center Time and Small Group Lessons
11:40 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
Outdoor Play
12:00-12:45 p.m.
Prayer & Lunch
12:45-1:15 p.m.
Rest & Read
1:15-1:45 p.m.
Art | Music
1:45-2:20 p.m.
Choice Time Projects
2:20-2:30 p.m.
Closing Circle
2:30 p.m.
Dismissal
Please note: this is a sample schedule
Preschool at ROBS is a joyful step in every child’s educational journey. Children are learning to observe, explore, and be awed by God’s creation around them. They are also making intellectual, emotional, and spiritual connections, one glorious discovery at a time. Our master teachers capture the wonder with which Preschool-aged children see the world. They help our students build on their discoveries so that children begin to construct a framework of understanding they will use throughout their lives.
BY THE NUMBERS
READINESS
Age: 3 (turning 4) 3 classes
Class size: 16 2 teachers / classroom
PREKINDERGARTEN
Age: 4 (turning 5) 4 classes
Class size: 18 2 teachers / classroom
CURRICULUM FEATURES
EARLY LITERACY
Preschool students develop foundational reading and writing skills through daily word play, dramatization, literacy centers, story dictation, drawing, bookmaking, and interactive read-alouds. Phonemic awareness and phonics skills emerge through thoughtfully designed literacy activities throughout the child’s school day.
NUMERICAL FLUENCY
Our preschoolers are eager to build, sort, count, and measure in our hands-on, playful mathematics program. Children develop deep number sense through singing counting songs, measuring block creations, sorting, classifying, and charting class data on important subjects like favorite ice cream flavors.
MUSIC & MOTOR
Readiness students explore rhythm and musicality in concert with gross motor skill development, body awareness, and sportsmanship in their daily Music & Motor class. Prekindergarten students attend Motor class daily and an additional music class three days per week.
MULTISENSORY EXPLORATION
Play-based, multisensory experiences aren’t just more fun; they’re crucial to brain development. Playing with slime, digging for spaghetti worms, and finger painting support cognitive growth, language development, fine motor skills, social interaction, and problem-solving skills.
ART
The Preschool art curriculum emphasizes the artistic process rather than a perfect product through lessons that cultivate joy, creativity, and yes, learning! Age-appropriate art history lessons integrate music appreciation as students listen to period pieces while they create.
WEEKLY CHAPEL & BIBLE CLASS
Messages of God’s enduring love will surround your child through frequent prayer, daily Bible stories, and weekly classroom Bible lessons. And all Preschool students experience the fellowship of worship in exuberant and reverent weekly Chapel services. Onstage musicals telling cherished Bible stories are a highlight of the Prekindergarten year.
CHARACTER EDUCATION
Jesus’ teachings form the basis for character education in the earliest years. The school day overflows with opportunities—both structured and unstructured—to learn to communicate, compromise, and collaborate with classmates. Stories, music, and activities help children learn to understand and cope with uncomfortable feelings like anger, frustration, and fear. And social skills are reinforced during “friendship circle,” where children practice empathy and discuss being gentle, honest, kind, and listening to others as they learn to follow Jesus’ teachings.
Ambitious academics rooted in abiding Christian values
WATERCOLOR TREE
Alight with playful color, the watercolor tree represents the beautiful potential and possibility-filled expanse of a child’s life.
ACADEMIC PATH
Deliberately engineered, research-based, and comprehensive, the School’s thoughtful academic curriculum builds upon itself from grade-to-grade, laying a self-reinforcing foundation for students to be ambitious, courageous, resourceful thinkers.
STYLIZED TREE
Fastening together the academic path and the fruit buds, the stylized tree presents a child’s journey through ROBS—the way ROBS guides students toward shaping life direction, forming connections, and preparing them for all that comes next.
LAYERED IMAGERY
FRUIT BUDS
Growing naturally from the academic path, the fruit buds represent the practice-based, immersive character curriculum that permeates every lesson and action at ROBS. The nine fruit buds known as the Fruit of the Spirit nourish children’s lives well beyond their time at ROBS.
Layering the artistry of the watercolor tree with the technological imagery of the stylized tree signifies the School’s commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math—each a priority in our ongoing curricular enhancements and our new master campus plan.
