Welcome to King of Kings Preschool - Come Grow with Us
King of Kings Lutheran Preschool is a licensed, half-day, morning preschool (9:15 am to 12:15 pm) for 2 1/2 to 5 year olds in the Fairfax, Chantilly, Centreville, and Herndon area. We have been providing early childhood education for over 20 years.
We recognize that each child has unique strengths, gifts, and personalities that are fostered in their home environments. We partner with families to provide a secure and caring environment, recognize the importance of the early years, provide developmentally appropriate learning experiences, and strive to meet each child at their individual skill level. We believe the best learning experiences often come through self-discovery and play. Our qualified and caring staff strive to provide for the growth of the children spiritually, socially, and emotionally, while advancing their intellectual and physical development.
As a mission of King of Kings Lutheran Church, we are a Christ-centered, nurturing community that is open to children and their families regardless of race, color, and national or ethnic origin. We do not discriminate in administration of our educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship, and other school-administered programs.
Please see below for additional information on how we incorporate play, process art, early writing, early literacy and language, early math, outdoor activities, chapel, and music into day-to-day learning.
Play
Play provides children with many hands-on opportunities to develop executive function, problem-solving, language and literacy, math, motor, and social-emotional skills. We provide a variety of intentional activities that spark interest and allow children to challenge themselves at their own pace and to work together in small groups. Children are encouraged to learn through interactive and dramatic play, games, sensory materials, science explorations, building, and movement.
Process Art
Process art provides children the opportunity to create art without worrying about the end product. It helps to develop creativity, fine-motor skills, language skills, problem-solving skills, and social-emotional skills. Children produce child-led, process art using a variety of materials that stimulate creativity, spontaneity, and imagination.
Early Writing
To encourage early writing, we provide a variety of materials to practice scribbling, drawing, and writing. We stage writing materials throughout the classroom and outside to be accessed for all types of activities and incorporated into all types of play. For our younger students, we provide many pre-writing and fine motor activities to prepare for writing.
Early Literacy and Language
Through play, conversations, stories, retelling and recording their own personal stories, and rhymes, opportunities to develop vocabulary, comprehension, print awareness, and letter and sound recognition naturally arise. Each class engages in a weekly lending library to foster their love of books.
Early Math
Children are exposed to math concepts, such as counting, shapes, sorting, patterns, and measurement in a variety of fun, play-based ways. Examples include finding patterns in and sorting natural materials, determining how many napkins needed for snack time, water play to develop measurement skills, singing counting songs, and playing games that require counting, number recognition, or logic.
Outdoor Activities
All classes play outdoors for at least a half hour each day in a supervised and safe environment. Outdoor play provides unstructured time for children to explore, run, relax and be joyful while developing many academic and social-emotional skills. We bring “indoor” activities outside, for children to experience art, building, and sensory activities in a different environment.
Chapel
Each class has a weekly chapel lesson to encourage and foster our Christ-centered environment and the childrens’ spiritually. Children are engaged in prayer, song, stories, and fellowship in the chapel.
Music
We offer a weekly music class led by a professional music teacher. Children are introduced to instruments, dance, and song throughout the preschool day. Music brings joy as well as developing language, coordination, focus. and self-regulation.
