Bright Start Preschool and Childcare : 503-591-0430 : www.BrightStartCare.com : Tigard, Aloha, Hillsboro, Beaverton, Portland - Our Preschool Program | Bright Start Care

Preschool 4 - 5 year olds

Flexibility
Parent's can choose 1 - 5 days a week for care. We provide flexible class start and end times as well as half-day classes. Extended hours are available upon request.

Affordability
The daily rate is no different if you choose 1 day a week or 5 days. Big centers charge the more if you are part-time. We can save you hundreds of dollars in a month. Affordable childcare and preschool services in Aloha, Hillsboro and Beaverton are not a myth! Want to know what the average monthly cost of preschool could be? Chat live with the director today to find out.

Half Days

AM CLASS:

4 hours Regularly $20
(8am to Noon)
5 hours Regularly $25
(7:30am - 12:30pm)

PM CLASS:

4 hours Regularly $20
(1pm - 5pm)
5 hours Regularly $25
(12:30pm - 5:30pm)

Full Time

8 hours Regularly $30
9 hours Regularly $34
10 hours Regularly $38

Chat live with the director or call 503-720-9319 for more info.

Drop In

$5 per hour

Overview
Daily Routines
Teachers
Curriculum
Basics

Exciting Days Filled with Education

Our fall preschool program offers your child a wonderful array of activities to physically engage cognitive and foster development.

Structured, fun classroom routines
Integrated curriculum (themes)
Inquiry experiences across subjects (theory building)
Zoophonics approach to the introduction of letter sounds.
Music, dancing, creative movement to support development
Interactive literature experiences
Creative dramatics
Crafts and projects encouraging fine motor skills and individual creative expression
Indoor and outdoor activities
Learning centers
Water, sand and sensory activities
Large yard with play structures, bikes, and other role playing equipment
Computers with lots of educational software for every age group attending.
Environment to support literacy skill development
Daily sing-along songs and circle activities.
Focus on Individual development and progress
Field trips to the local library, the zoo, the children's museum and more!

Daily Routines

AM CLASS

7:30 - 8:00 Table Toys / Recess (nice weather)

8:00 - 8:30 Morning Job

8:30 - 9:15 Circle

9:15 - 9:30 Days of School Activity

9:30 - 9:45 Mini Lesson

9:45 - 10:00 Snack

10:00 - 11:00 Activity

11:00 - 11:15 Recess

11:15 - 12:00 Centers

12:00 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 1:00 Table Toys

PM CLASS

12:30 - 1:00 Lunch

1:00 - 1:15 Recess (nice weather)

1:15 - 1:45 Afternoon Job

1:45 - 2:30 Circle

2:30 - 2:45 Days of School Activity

2:45 - 3:30 Activity

3:30 - 3:45 Snack

3:45 - 4:00 Recess

4:00 - 5:00 Centers

5:00 - 5:30 Table Toys

Our Teachers

All our teachers are required by the state to have current:

Adult and Infant First Aid / CPR cards
Food Handlers Cards
Abuse and Neglect raining
Yearly educational development classes for the ages they teach.

Tigard Preschool Head Teacher and Director
Tessa Gripp

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Tigard Early Preschool Teacher
Tiffany Boicourt

Aloha Preschool Teacher and Director
Gwen Ashford

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Aloha Early Preschool Teacher
Stacy Coplin

Our Curriculum

Check out the 2010 curriculum overview

We use an age-appropriate, professionally designed early learning program that is state approved. We adjust as needed to challenge our overachievers and to build school readiness skills. The curriculum offers theme oriented weeks throughout the school year that get children excited about learning and exploring.

Each week of fun includes arts and crafts, cooking, sports and fitness, drama, water and sand activities, sign-a-longs, story times, and learning centers. There will be weekly special events, mini-books, educational worksheets, story books, and projects that go along with each theme.

Focus on the Basics

Language and literacy are developed using the multi-sensory Spalding approach and high quality literature. We use the same Zoophonics approach that is used in the Hillsboro school district to introduce the letter shapes and sounds. We have a letter of the week and focus on the basic letter sounds, how we use letters and how letter combinations make up words. This is the foundation for literacy proficiency.

Math concepts are taught in everything we do - songs, circle activities, and in one-on-one math building time.

Music is an important bridge in education for children. It provides a lasting connection to a unit and the concepts we learn. We use morning songs at circle with words and pictures to connect the theme to a child's experience. All the songs throughout the year are kept in a binder and each day our Welcome Song Teacher (this is a student job) can pick a song from as far back in the year as they desire. This rekindles the educational memories and keeps the themes alive in their mind throughout the whole year.

Physical activity is key to a child's ability to focus and learn. Our day is planned so children have several opportunities to be active and move large muscle groups throughout the day. Their ability to focus is greatly increased and their overall mood is greatly enhanced by the endorphins that "chase" games create.