Children’s Country is licensed by the state of Minnesota. We are a ‘hands on’ preschool where parents and early childhood educators work together in a non-denominational Christian environment to help the children begin the journey of growing and developing into joyful, confident, and independent people.

We encourage and stimulate emotional, spiritual, and intellectual growth, as well as creativity through our carefully planned curriculum. Time is given to listen to your child as he/she expresses himself/herself verbally, physically, and through the joy of pretending.

At Children’s Country Preschool each child has approximately 3 helping parent days where the parent or special adult of that child will come in and help for that day as well as provide snack for the class. One of the helping days will be on or near the child’s birthday or half birthday if the child’s birthday falls in the summer months.

About half of our preschoolers come from the St. Michael/Albertville area and the other half from Hanover/Corcoran/Greenfield/Rogers area.

Children’s Country Preschool offers:

Seven different sessions of classes. Three different age groups:
• A Young 3’s class. Friday mornings for those just under 3 to just over 3.
• Three different multi-age sessions. 3 & 4 year olds not going to kindergarten the following year.
• Three Pre-kindergarten sessions. For those eligible for kindergarten the following year.

Parent/Teacher Conferences twice a year.

Carefully planned curriculum ~ Curriculum is planned by the teachers and Director making sure that all parts of the child are developed. Everything we do has a reason behind it. We follow sound early childhood practices as well as keeping up with new early childhood research.

Three teachers for all multi-age and pre-k classes. The Young 3’s class has fewer children therefore we have two teachers.

Helping Parent days ~ A special time for the preschoolers to show their class to mom or dad and bring the snack for the day!

Field trips: Busses are provided for all field trips. Preschoolers need an adult to attend with them on field trip days.
• Fall ~ to the Hanover Fire & Rescue Dept. and then to a local apple orchard.
• Winter ~ to Sesame Street Live (every other year).
• Spring ~ to a local farm or to Como Zoo.

Pre-kindergarten classes mini field trips:
• Coborn’s and Dehmer’s meats for a tour and to buy Thanksgiving Feast ingredients.
• Domino’s Pizza ~ for a tour and to make pizza’s for their snack for the day.

Family Night ~ Once a year the children put on an age appropriate performance for family and friends and then have juice and cookies!

Christian Foundation:
• Each month highlights one of the fruits of the spirit, for example, September is Self Control, a great way to teach preschool rules.
• We teach the real meaning of Christmas and the students put on a traditional Christmas program for the parents.
• We teach the real meaning of Easter.
• We pray and say grace every day.

Every day we provide different activities at:
• Science table ~ using nature, experiments, cooking, and sensory activities.
• Writing table ~ to encourage pre-writing skills.
• Manips table ~ to promote fine motor skill development.
• Art table ~ to encourage a wide range of skill development and opportunities to explore many different mediums of art.
• Dramatic play ~ to encourage play and all the skills that play develops.
• Small group ~ where a specific age appropriate pre-kindergarten skill is taught.
• Music & Rhythm ~ a wide variety of music activities.
• Library ~ where book skills are taught and to check out books.
• Story Time ~ stories and finger plays.
• Easel ~ new activities at the easel every day.

Two different playgrounds:
• “the park” as the preschoolers call it. A regular playground to develop large muscles.
• The Imagination Station ~ a more imaginative playground.

Grandparent’s Day ~ A time to enjoy and honor grandparents or a special adult of the preschooler.

Teachers:
• Are CPR & First Aid certified.
• Have 16 hours min. a year continuing education.
• Review safety procedures yearly including Crisis Management and Lock–down procedures.

Background checks ~ All Children’s Country Preschool employees have a yearly background check.