Private Transitional Kindergarten in Tarzana, CA
Age: Turns 5 Years Old Between September 2nd & March 1st
Empowering Early Learners for Bright Futures
Woodcrest’s Outstanding TK Program
Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is an educational program designed for children who turn five years old between September 2nd and March 1st of the academic year. Woodcrest’s TK program offers children extra time to help build a stronger educational foundation for Kindergarten. We incorporate learning and play through our innovative enrichment programs and modified, age-appropriate Kindergarten curriculum. Classes are small to ensure students learn at an individualized pace to accommodate all types of learning styles. After TK, most students are adequately prepared for Kindergarten.
Our Transitional Kindergarten Curriculum
At this age, we focus on helping your child learn social skills, pre-reading skills, pre-writing skills, basic math concepts, and fine motor skills. In TK, your child will learn to recognize and identify letters, phonics, numbers, shapes, colors, and concepts. We encourage independence, creativity, and curiosity through various activities to build a strong educational foundation.
Letters & Phonics
Learning the alphabet and phonics is one of the first big steps your child takes to learn how to read! Each week we focus on a new letter. We learn to recognize the uppercase and lowercase of each letter and the phonetic sounds each letter makes. We use many different activities to help your child solidify the new things they are learning, for example, if we’re talking about the letter “B,” we might have a tray with a small ball, a little boat, and some books. Activities like this allow children to touch, see, and play with things that connect to what they’re learning.
Numbers
In TK, your child will learn to identify numbers and count all the way up to 100! They will also learn the basics of addition and subtraction, and to count by fives. These skills help them grasp number patterns and prepare them to learn more complex math concepts in elementary school. In our TK curriculum, we also practice identifying coins, providing a practical understanding of money.
Shapes
In Transitional Kindergarten, your child will learn to recognize shapes from their unique characteristics. We practice counting the sides of a shape and looking for that shape around our classroom. We will learn about what makes a square different from a rectangle, and we will practice drawing and tracing shapes. We use blocks and shape-sorting games for children to practice what they’re learning independently.
Conceptual Learning
At this age, your child can understand more abstract and complex concepts such as seasons, weather, nutrition, and more! We make learning about the world around us exciting and engaging. We explore seasons and holidays, understanding how the weather changes and why we celebrate special days. We discover the concept of animals hibernating during certain times of the year, adapting to their environment. Students also learn to recognize and spell their names, fostering a sense of identity. We discuss how foods help our bodies grow, think, and have energy for play. Through hands-on activities and interactive lessons, we aim to spark curiosity and lay the foundation for a well-rounded understanding of the world.
Arts & Crafts
Art nurtures creativity, self-expression, and fine motor skills and is a great way for your child to connect what they are learning to the real world. In our art lessons, we have fun exploring what art is, different famous artists, and how we can make art ourselves! We use different objects and materials such as crayons, glue, feathers, and pipe cleaners and talk about using different colors, shapes, and tools to create our artwork. We also learn about music and play with maracas, drums, and more!
Handwriting
Each day, students practice writing and tracing letters, numbers, and their names with pencils in their workbooks. They also learn how to use pencils and scissors correctly all by themselves. These activities help them develop their fine motor skills and learn how to use tools.
Learning Activities for TK
We enjoy a wide variety of activities in our Transitional Kindergarten to keep learning fun!
Centers
In our learning centers, we provide a dynamic and interactive environment to teach various concepts. We play with objects like geoboards, free art, blocks, legos, magnets, and more to teach problem-solving, science, math, and fine motor skills.
Story Time
We read new books every day during story time to help students wind down and practice their listening skills. Reading to your child daily helps expand their vocabulary and teaches valuable lessons.
Academic Games
One of the best ways to teach young children is through play! We play bingo, dominoes, memory, shape sorting, and a name-matching game to solidify the different things we learn each week.
Our Private Transitional Kindergarten Schedule
Circle Time
We discuss our daily learning objective, read a book, and go over the calendar.
Alphabet & Phonics
We practice tracing and sounding out letters and writing our names.
Arts & Crafts
We have a new project every day to go with our learning objective!
Math
We practice identifying numbers, counting, and sorting.
Lunch
Students eat their lunch.
Outside Time
We spend an hour outside playing games and getting our wiggles out!
Writing Exercises
We practice recognizing and tracing our names.
Snack
Students have a light snack.
Story Time
We read a story in our afternoon circle time.
Free Play
Students play or do homework.
Pick Up
It’s time to come get your little one!
See What Our Families Have To Say!
“I can’t even try to put in words what the teachers and the director at Woodcrest Preschool mean to us. For us, Woodcrest is more than just a preschool, it is like a family.”
Lidor Hen
“The teachers are truly what makes Woodcrest stand out each and every day they go above and beyond to ensure that the children are happy, engaged, and learning. Woodcrest is a partnership with parents, teachers and children.”
Yleana Gareca
“Our oldest daughter started when she was 2 years old and she is now in kindergarten with a jump start in academics, which was one of the main reasons we chose Woodcrest. Woodcrest made our lives, as full-time working parents, very easy.”
Parent
“We are so happy to be part of the Woodcrest family! Our daughter is absolutely thriving and enjoying the fun-filled curriculum, and greatly looks forward to going to school each and every day. We, as parents, feel very well taken care of by the teachers and administrative staff and are especially appreciative of the open and frequent communication. We feel so fortunate to have our child attend Woodcrest Preschool, and look forward to her continuing to blossom and grow there!”
Melina & Gaby
How to Enroll in Transitional Kindergarten
Once you have decided that Woodcrest Preschool is the right fit for your family, we are ready to help you with the enrollment process! Please visit our enrollment page to find all the enrollment forms. Enrollment is only confirmed after a face-to-face meeting with the Preschool Director.
- Step 1: Tour Woodcrest Preschool
- Step 2: Submit Enrollment Forms
- Step 3: Meet With Preschool Director
FAQs about Transitional Kindergarten
While both TK and Kindergarten share common goals of fostering early learning and development, TK serves as a transitional year to ensure that younger learners are well-prepared for the more formal academic setting of traditional Kindergarten.
Our TK students learn independence, problem-solving, motor skills, literacy, and social and emotional skills.
Full-time Transitional Kindergarten at Woodcrest Preschool costs $1415 per month.
We are open from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, with class starting at 9 am and ending at 5:15 pm.
In California, Transitional Kindergarten (TK) is available for children who turn five years old between September 2nd and March 1st of the school year.
Transitional Kindergarten is a 1-year program.
