Trusted Pre-K Program in DeSoto and Lancaster, TX

Southwest Academies offers a comprehensive Pre-K program in DeSoto and Lancaster, TX, preparing children for kindergarten with engaging curriculum, social development, and foundational learning skills.
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Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten Success With Our Pre-K Program

Children between the ages of 3-5 are rapidly developing. From building on the foundations of their language skills to learning more complex social interactions, these abilities are vital to setting your child up for success as they enter into their school years.
Southwest Academies is committed to guiding your child through these essential milestones by immersing them in a world of engaging, age appropriate activities designed to spark a passion for learning. Our curriculum targets various learning areas to ensure that children are supported through their social-emotional development, cognitive skills, language growth, and physical coordination. We help your child find more confidence in their abilities, leading to increased independence and higher self-esteem.
Southwest Academies’s Pre-K Program focuses on building on the foundations established during infancy and toddlerhood. This focus ensures that your child will be set up for success once they enter kindergarten, allowing them a jumpstart into their academic careers.
Here is a closer look at our Pre-K Program:

Language Development

We work with our students to develop proper language skills to express themselves while also comprehending basic concepts. Our pre-k students will work on speaking longer sentences and be able to properly form “who, what, where, why” questions to gain a better understanding of the world around them.

Social Skills

At this age, your child begins to form friendships with their peers. Part of friendship involves  learning how to navigate complicated social skills, such as taking turns during play and developing the ability to share toys.

Cognitive Development

At this stage in your child’s growth, they work on developing their imagination. This is vital to the continued development of their creativity, problem-solving skills, and emotional intelligence. We also work to ensure that your child can appropriately think about past and future events, as well as basic rules and concepts, such as opposites and positional words.

Sensory Exploration

Sensory exploration is essential to your child’s growth as this is how they learn about the world around them. From exploring objects with their hands and mouth to being allowed to experience new sensations, such as hot and cold, our program is designed to give your baby the freedom to explore the world around them in a healthy environment. All our toys are disinfected every day and each activity is overseen by our caregivers.

Why Choose Southwest Academies for Pre-K in DeSoto and Lancaster?

Southwest Academies is committed to creating an inclusive environment that offers every student an enriching journey to safely navigate their creativity and curiosity, all while building on their emotional, social, cognitive, and language skills. We encourage imagination and hands-on exploration through our wide variety of activities. Whether it be through making art or climbing on our state-of-the-art playground, every activity our students engage in lays the groundwork for a lifetime of learning and growth.
Our educators are specially trained and certified, and continuously participate in ongoing training to ensure that they are providing the best possible care and support for your child. Every one of our programs offers an exceptional learning environment where your child can explore the world around them while building the skills necessary to have a successful academic career. Every one of our Pre-K activities is crafted to provide different learning strategies so every child has the opportunity to learn in the way they do best.
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Our Pre-K Curriculum: Building Essential Skills for Learning and Growth

Our educators proudly use proven curriculums from CLI Engage and Frog Street. These curriculums have been proven to support a child’s growth through every stage by providing a wide range of activities that make learning exciting and fun. These curriculums help your child meet the following skills:

Movement Skills

  • Hop or stand on one foot for up to 5 seconds
  • Move forward and backward
  • Throw ball overhand
  • Pedal on a tricycle
  • Catch bounced ball most of the time
  • Climb on and off of a chair

Writing and Drawing Skills (Which build strengths in hands and fingers)

  • Copy square shapes
  • Draw a person with a head and other body parts
  • Use child-safe scissors
  • Begin to copy some capital letters
  • Draw circles and squares

Language Skills

  • Understand the concepts of “same” and “different”
  • Understand simple prepositions, such as “on” and “off” or “under” and “over”
  • Make sentences that are 3 words or more
  • Tell stories

Cognitive Skills

  • Correctly name some colors
  • Follow three-part commands
  • Approach a problem from a single point of view
  • Recall parts of a story
  • Begin to have a clearer understanding of time
  • Understand the concept of counting and be able to count to ten or higher

Social Skills

  • Be interested in engaging in new experiences
  • Be increasingly inventive in their imaginative play
  • Take on or off their coat
  • Cooperate with other students
  • Negotiate solutions to conflicts
  • Share and play with other students or educators
  • Eat independently
  • Go into the bathroom by themselves

Emotional Skills

  • Be able to view their self as a whole person, including their mind, body, and feelings

A Day in Our Pre-K Program: Learning, Social Skills, and Fun

Our Pre-K Class begins with children receiving a healthy breakfast on arrival. After breakfast, they have a bathroom break followed by a cleanup session to support healthy hygiene habits. The morning continues with structured learning time through age-appropriate lessons that promote cognitive and language development.
Following this, children explore learning centers that encourage social interaction, cooperative play, and exploration. When it’s time for lunch, all of our students put away toys and take another bathroom break. We ensure that each child washes their hands before they eat to help stop the spread of germs and illness. Once lunch is over, we turn the lights down and allow our students to take a restful nap to recharge. After nap time, they clean up their naptime materials and enjoy a snack followed by a group activity. Then we do arts and crafts or outdoor play (weather permitting), to stimulate creativity and physical development. We then offer a nutritious dinner, which our students will clean up afterward followed by a final bathroom break. Our students will wash their hands and prepare for dismissal.
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Health, Safety, and Nutrition in Our Pre-K Classroom

Safety is our number one priority at Southwest Academies. We take the time to ensure that each of our classrooms follow rigorous health and safety standards that meet all state regulations. From cleanliness to emergency preparedness, we have built a supportive environment that allows your little one to thrive.

  • Requiring any child or staff member who is displaying symptoms of illness to stay home until they are 24 hours free of symptoms.
  • Regular sanitation and disinfecting of frequently used toys, surfaces, and other objects.
  • Requiring staff and children to wash their hands multiple times throughout the day.
  • Weekly laundering of washable toys.

Pre-K Nutrition at Southwest Academies

All of our locations provide wholesome, USDA-approved meals and snacks that follow Child Care Food Program (CACFP) guidelines, providing your child balanced nutrition every day.

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Afternoon Snack
  • Dinner

How We Support Parents in Their Child’s Pre-K Experience

One of the most important and influential relationships that have the biggest impact on the success of a child is the one they have with their parents. Southwest Academies understands how vital it is to ensure that parents are actively involved in their child’s education. We maintain full transparency with parents by offering the ProCare app. This application gives our teachers the ability to keep parents in the loop through photos, messages, and updates on their child’s progress. Parents can also ask questions through the app or provide updates on their child’s needs.

Enroll in Southwest Academies’ Pre-K Program in DeSoto or Lancaster

Southwest Academies is proud to offer an educational program that is specially designed to foster a love of learning, growth, and creativity for your child. From infancy through grade school, our programs are designed to meet the needs of your child, supporting them through every major developmental milestone. Contact our team today for more information on our Pre-K program or for a tour of our facility.
We look forward to meeting you and your child. Together, we can start your child off on the right foot to a successful and rewarding future.

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Pre-K program is designed for students aged 3 to 5 years.

Children between the ages of 3 and 5 are at the peak of their development when it comes to acquiring the foundational skills that they will use throughout their entire lives. Ninety percent of the brain is developed by the age of five, which is why the early years are so crucial to their growth. Our Pre-K Program focuses on creating engaging learning experiences that aid in developing healthy attitudes, stronger cognitive skills, and the physical development needed for success in kindergarten and the years to come.

Yes! Southwest Academies offers nutritious meals and snacks during the following times:

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Afternoon Snack
  • Dinner

Our hours of operation are 6:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.