Accotink Academy by The Sea

Our preschool program is designed to meet the full range of a child's developmental needs: physical, social, creative, emotional, and cognitive. Our daily schedule includes a balance between indoor and outdoor activities, quiet and active times, gross and fine motor activities and large and small group times. Children are introduced to nature, social studies, math and pre-reading at their developmentally appropriate level.

Music, art and play are an integral part of the daily schedule. Songs and poems are used to acquaint children with not only the alphabet and numbers, but also an introduction to phonemic awareness. Safety and health are an important part of the daily routine. A language art series, which helps in the development of vocabulary concepts, listening abilities, creative thinking, appreciation for fine literature, visual discrimination, auditory perception and emotional adjustment is presented during the school year. A structured phonics program is taught to the older four year olds by means of a Phonovisual system with games and pictures. Creativity in painting, coloring, cutting and pasting, clay and dramatization, as well as gross motor and tumbling activities, music and computers and a full school spring recital round out what we feel is a full and exciting program.