Innovations
Technology Innovations
Robotic, Parent-Controlled Web Cams
Little Leprechaun is the only school in the country to offer next generation robotic web cameras for online classroom viewing.
Robotic, Parent-Controlled Web Cams
Little Leprechaun is the only school in the country to offer next generation robotic web cameras for online classroom viewing.
Imagine you're having a bad day at the office. Everyone is testy, deadlines draw close, and your boss is breathing down your neck. Take a break. Logon to the Little Leprechaun website and sign in for webcam access. Spend the next few minutes watching your little angel coloring and singing songs with her girlfriend. You can zoom in on her picture and see the different colors she has chosen for her field of flowers. And you recognize the song they're singing as the one you sang her to sleep with last night.
Now click over to your son's classroom and join in circle time.
Zoom in to watch his sign language to the teacher. Pan over to the project shelf and see how his popsicle-stick cabin is coming along. Pan back to circle time and listen while he recounts to the group the family's plan for a weekend camping trip. He sounds so excited!
Grab a few screen shots to email to the grandparents in Texas. Add a link to Little Leprechaun's Parent Corner so they can logon and share the kids' enjoyment of their school day.
Logoff and face the rest of the day with a genuine smile on your face.
The Little Leprechaun Website
The Parent's Corner of the Little Leprechaun website gives you password-protected access to important information on the daily happenings at the school and the daily milestones reached by your child.
Within the Parent's Corner You Have the Ability to:
- Access and control classroom web cams
- Review your child's schedule, weekly curriculum plan, daily activity sheet, progress reports, and immunization records
- Update your parent info, apply free day credits, access year end tax statements, view the parent roster and parent messages
- View the school calendar, this week's menu, weekly newsletter, employee roster and teacher information; browse the school's picture gallery and message board, and access important Little Leprechaun forms
Child Enrichment Innovations
Enrichment opportunities for your child shouldn't cost extra. And you shouldn't have to try and juggle your schedule just to spend time in the car driving them back and forth across town. Most enrichments are included in your tuition simply because they are part of delivering excellence in early education.
Enrichment opportunities for your child shouldn't cost extra. And you shouldn't have to try and juggle your schedule just to spend time in the car driving them back and forth across town. Most enrichments are included in your tuition simply because they are part of delivering excellence in early education.
Foreign Language Instruction
Research has demonstrated that learning a second language provides children with increased self-esteem, a greater ability to master English, and the ability to perform higher in math and logic skills. The French language is introduced in the early preschool classroom and instruction is continued throughout the preschool year. Since learning a second language provides very clear and very compelling benefits to the student, this enrichment is included in your tuition.
Research has demonstrated that learning a second language provides children with increased self-esteem, a greater ability to master English, and the ability to perform higher in math and logic skills. The French language is introduced in the early preschool classroom and instruction is continued throughout the preschool year. Since learning a second language provides very clear and very compelling benefits to the student, this enrichment is included in your tuition.
Sign Language Instruction
Sign language instruction begins in our infant classroom. While verbal communication skills are unavailable to the child, sign language gives them an alternate way to express their wants and needs, whether she wants "more milk" or is "all done". Sign Language instruction continues throughout the preschool years.
Sign language instruction begins in our infant classroom. While verbal communication skills are unavailable to the child, sign language gives them an alternate way to express their wants and needs, whether she wants "more milk" or is "all done". Sign Language instruction continues throughout the preschool years.
Educational Field Trips
The most meaningful learning experience is a hands-on experience. Field trips are commonly scheduled as an extension of in-class studies and themes. Field trips include local museums (art, national history, natural history), science centers, nature preserves, and community services.
The most meaningful learning experience is a hands-on experience. Field trips are commonly scheduled as an extension of in-class studies and themes. Field trips include local museums (art, national history, natural history), science centers, nature preserves, and community services.
Technology
Students who are exposed to technology in the preschool setting will start their educational career with a distinct advantage. Each Little Leprechaun classroom contains computers and, at ages appropriate, each child is given their very own Little Leprechaun email account with all of the help and support they need to utilize the acount. Teachers incorporate the use of computers whenever possible during daily instruction time and free time.
Students who are exposed to technology in the preschool setting will start their educational career with a distinct advantage. Each Little Leprechaun classroom contains computers and, at ages appropriate, each child is given their very own Little Leprechaun email account with all of the help and support they need to utilize the acount. Teachers incorporate the use of computers whenever possible during daily instruction time and free time.