WEE Center
Welcome to the Kirkwood Baptist Church Weekday Early Education Center. Our Center opened July 6, 1989, as a two-day-a-week program with 30 children ranging in age from 2 to 5 years old. The preschool grew rapidly and after careful consideration we changed the name to the Weekday Early Education Center. The program now operates three days a week September through May with an average enrollment of 160. Each classroom provides a lead teacher and assistant teacher.

Philosophy Statement
It is the philosophy of our Weekday Early Education Center to facilitate growth in the areas of social, moral, cognitive, representational, and physical development. The environment is organized through learning centers which allow children to make choices based on their interests and needs. Activities are informant and fun. Infants and toddlers learn that life away from home can be secure and loving. Through interactions with others, children develop language skills, growing aware of themselves creatively. Our staff supports the day to day routine by individualizing the care of each child, resulting in a bond between the children and their primary care giver. Preschool children are offered activities to challenge them in the areas of number readiness, science and nature, arts and crafts, dramatic play, fine and gross motor skills, language development, and safe, healthy living practices.

Curriculum
Our teaching staff is dedicated to making the Weekday Early Education Center a positive learning experience for preschoolers, sixteen months through pre-kindergarten. The preschool rooms, two years and older, are arranged into play-learning centers where children make choices for individual and small group activities. We have a planned curriculum which follows a weekly theme- home living, blocks, puzzles, books, nature, music, and art. The daily schedule involves both vigorous and quiet indoor activities. Each day the children spend a portion of their day in the Great Hall or outside developing large gross motor skills. Time is also spent for music instruction especially designed for the preschooler. Because our center is a Christian weekday early education program, Bible themes and stories are used during the day.

YOUR CHILD'S DAY
(Sample Pre-Kindergarten Schedule)

9:00 - 9:15 Arrive
9:15 - 9:45 Play Learning Centers
9:45 - 10:15 Art
10:15 - 10:30 Snack
10:30 - 11:00 Group time (Bible stories / Show & Tell)
11:00 - 11:30 Music
11:30 - 11:45 Prepare for lunch (wash hands, etc.)
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch
12:45 - 1:00 Clean up
1:00 - 1:20 Story/Rest Time
1:20 - 1:50 Recess
1:45 - 2:00 Get ready for parents
2:00 Parents arrive

(Schedule may be altered due to the age and need of the child. Schedules are posted in the classrooms.)

For enrollment information contact the Jerrie Lape, Director at 314-822-5477