Preschool

Our early childhood preschool team works together to support and nurture the growth of each child emotionally, physically, socially, and intellectually. We Provide a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment for every student.

2025-2026 Preschool Registration

Preschool registration for next school year will open on March 3rd, 2025
Packet pick-up available at McKinley Early Childhood Center starting March 3, 2025
Preschool is available for any child who turns 3 or 4 years old before September 1, 2025

2025-2026 school year will have all preschool programming held at Roosevelt Elementary. Preschool options will include:

Early Childhood Special Education Highly Structured Classrooms
Half Day Preschool for 3 and 4 year olds.
All Day Preschool for 4 year olds.

Early Childhood Screening will continue to be held at McKinley until next year school begins.,

Teaching & Learning

Our preschool curriculum is aligned with the Minnesota Early Childhood Indicators of Progress to prepare students for success in kindergarten and beyond. Licensed teachers use Scholastic Pre-K On My Way as a full developmental curriculum to meet state standards in math, literacy and language, social studies and science.
We believe that offering programming inclusive of all learners is critical to building an environment that best reflects our community and world of our future leaders. Stepping into our classrooms, you will see a diverse population of individuals from beautiful families with learning materials that reflect many cultures and students of varying abilities and skills.
To track progress in the developmental domains we use Teaching Strategies Gold. This assessment tool is used to best capture where each child is at socially/emotionally, physically, and cognitively. Teaching Strategies Gold is an authentic observation-based assessment system for children which blends ongoing observational assessment for all areas of development and learning with performance tasks for selected predictors of school success.
We truly value partnerships with families and building a positive community and culture within our classrooms. To maintain communication with families, teachers interact with parents and caregivers through the SeeSaw app to message with teachers and share student work and pictures.

What is the Pyramid Model?

The Pyramid Model is a framework for supporting the social and emotional development of our children. The goal of the Pyramid Model is to create an environment where every child feels good about coming to school. This is accomplished by designing classrooms that promote engagement in learning and by building positive relationships among children, families, and staff. In our use of the Pyramid Model, our classroom staff will work together to ensure that all children understand behavior expectations, receive instruction in social skills, and those who are struggling receive individual support.

The Pyramid Model illustrates that the foundation for helping children develop social and emotional skills is nurturing and responsive relationships and high quality environments. The middle of the Pyramid, teaching of social and emotional skills, is provided to all children with some children receiving additional teaching and support. The top of the Pyramid shows that a few children will need the foundation, the middle AND individualized intervention to address challenging behavior.

What is gained by using the Pyramid Model?

FAMILIES

Receive information on how to help promote children’s social and emotional skills
Team with teachers to help children grow and learn
Receive support for preventing and addressing behavior problems

TEACHERS

Are effective in helping children learn social and emotional skills
Strengthen classroom management skills
Have information and resources to support families

CHILDREN

Increase their social and emotional skills
Improve in their readiness for kindergarten

To learn more about the Pyramid Model, CLICK HERE

Resources

Our early childhood preschool team works together to support and nurture the growth of each child emotionally, physically, socially, and intellectually. We Provide a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment for every student. 2025-2026 Preschool Registration

2025-2026 school year will have all preschool programming held at Roosevelt Elementary. Preschool options will include:

Our early childhood preschool team works together to support and nurture the growth of each child emotionally, physically, socially, and intellectually. We Provide a safe, nurturing, and enriching environment for every student.

2025-2026 Preschool Registration