Trust & Discovery
Our youngest children build secure relationships, explore through their senses, develop communication, and discover growing independence in responsive, nurturing environments.
Preschool at First Pres
A Childhood Full of Wonder
Children deserve time to explore, room to imagine, and a community where they are deeply known.
Ages One Through PreK
A Place to Wonder, Explore, and Belong
The early years are filled with extraordinary growth. At First Pres, children are welcomed into a community that honors who they are today while nurturing the confidence, curiosity, relationships, and skills that will carry them forward.
Known & Valued
Belonging Comes First
Before children can explore confidently, take risks, or share their ideas, they need to feel safe, known, and valued.
Our teachers take time to understand each child's personality, interests, strengths, and ways of communicating. Through consistent, caring relationships, children develop the security and confidence to engage fully with the people and world around them.
Growing at First Pres
Every Stage Brings New Possibilities
From a toddler's first independent discoveries to a PreK child's increasingly complex questions and ideas, our environments and teachers respond to children as they grow.
Imagination & Inquiry
As children's worlds expand, play, language, creativity, friendship, movement, and investigation become increasingly rich and complex.
Confidence & Connection
PreK children deepen their thinking, express increasingly complex ideas, collaborate with others, and develop the independence and confidence to take their next steps.
Meaningful Learning
Children Learn Through Experience
Young children learn best when they can touch, move, build, create, question, test ideas, and try again.
Through play and investigation, children encounter meaningful opportunities to develop language, mathematical thinking, scientific reasoning, creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving.
Teachers listen closely, observe carefully, and thoughtfully extend children's ideas—helping everyday moments grow into rich opportunities for learning.
Beyond Four Walls
Learning Happens Everywhere
At First Pres, the classroom extends into studios, gardens, outdoor spaces, conversations, relationships, and the wider community.
Outdoor Exploration
Children spend meaningful time outdoors, where movement, nature, observation, risk-taking, and discovery become part of everyday learning.
Art & Expression
Rich materials invite children to communicate ideas through drawing, painting, sculpture, construction, movement, and many other forms of expression.
Language & Literacy
Stories, conversation, songs, meaningful print, phonological awareness, and early literacy experiences grow naturally throughout the day.
Thinking & Discovery
Mathematics and science emerge through building, measuring, comparing, observing, predicting, questioning, and investigating the world.
Experience First Pres
Come See Childhood Differently.
Visit our classrooms, explore our outdoor spaces, and discover a community where young children are known, valued, and inspired to learn.
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