For information, please visit us at the Little Lambs website at stmaryslittlelambs.org or call 845-496-7221. 

Note: The Little Lambs website is accessible on desktop only, NOT on smartphones. 

Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me for the Kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

St. Mary’s Little Lambs Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment Program is dedicated to providing social, spiritual, emotional, physical, and academic growth, within a Catholic setting, for three, four and five year olds. Our goal is to provide a program that develops age appropriate milestones for our children in a safe and nurturing environment. Little Lambs is devoted to building and strengthening our students’ skills, one step at a time, as we prepare them for the transition to a more formal school setting. 

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL GOALS
Through innovative experiences, children will engage with one another by participating in new and exciting activities.
Exploration, discovery, language and motor development are integrated through play, arts and crafts, drama, early stages of literacy, age appropriate print conventions and prayer.  All of our children will be given the opportunity to express their new independence in a secure environment outside the familiar setting of their homes.
 
PHYSICAL GOALS
Each day our children will engage in play with their peers. Activities within the classroom will address age-appropriate fine motor skills.
 
ACADEMIC GOALS
Our program at Little Lambs will be aligned with the standards set by New York State for Preschool-age children.
We will address age appropriate print conventions and phono-logical awareness skills which will not be limited to, but will include:

• Listening games
• Sequencing
• Detecting rhyme
• Word and sentence structure
• Awareness of syllables in words
• Matching initial consonant sounds
• Matching ending consonant sounds
• Introduction to identification of upper and lower case letters
• Matching upper and lower case letters
• Development of vocabulary 
• Awareness of print
• Emergent Writing
• Identifying colors, shapes, numbers, rote counting

 SCHEDULE
 What Will Your Child Be Doing While at Preschool?

•  Daily Goal: A Day Filled with Discovery, Fun and Learning!!
•  Warm Welcome
•  Teacher Directed Learning Centers Based on Program Goals
• Circle Time includes Daily Routines
• (prayer, calendar, weather, show and tell)
• Reading Workshop
• Read Aloud with Targeted Skill Instruction as Determined by the Teacher
•  Project Time (crafts)
•  Snack and Playground
•  Writer’s Workshop (emergent writing skills)
•  Science and Math (optional)
• Music and Motion
• Prayer and Dismissal

 *Note that skills may vary with 3- and 4-year olds

ADMISSION POLICY
Admission is open to all children in St. Mary’s Parish, as well as the surrounding community in the Tri-State area.   Children will be placed in classes according to their age. All children must be toilet trained. In keeping with state regulations, to be accepted in the three-year old program, children should be three years old or reach their third birthday on or before December 1st of that year. To be accepted in the four-year old program, a child should be four years old or reach their fourth birthday by December 1st of that year. Class size will be limited to the state ratios of 8:1 for three-year-olds and 10:1 for four-year-olds.   Priority will be given to returning St. Mary’s Little Lambs’ children.  New students will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
 
FINANCIAL POLICY & TUITION
Please contact Little Lamb’s School at 845.496.7221 for information.