ABOUT US
LSLS provides children with an environment that stimulates natural curiosity, creativity and imagination. The LSLS classroom is vivid and busy, emphasizing hands-on learning activities. Our classroom activities provide children with many opportunities for learning and discovery while ensuring the children's emotional and physical well being while they are in our care.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
It is the primary goal of LSLS classrooms to provide an environment where children can grow academically, socially, emotionally, and spiritually. In addition, we believe that the role of the teacher is to provide opportunities for children to learn to be respectful of each other, think and solve problems for themselves, and learn to appreciate God's love for them. Our teachers are committed to helping students learn at their full potential and to provide vibrant and fun learning opportunities where learning can flourish through the use of songs, activities and thematic units.
Our teachers are mindful that if we want children to learn to be respectful, then it is most important that we model what that looks like in how we treat our students. We want to help them learn practical ways to listen, be considerate of others and also how to peacefully resolve conflicts.
OUR CURRICULUM
The curriculum for Lake Stevens Little School is custom designed for our program by our director. It incorporates math, science, language, and other subject areas through the use of thematic units. The Christian based themes compliment our monthly themes and serve as the thread that weaves the entire program together.
Our school introduces school readiness activities for children of all ability levels. LSLS recognizes the strengths of each child and customizes a program to meet their individual needs. There is a special emphasis on gross motor and fine motor development, alphabet recognition, phonetic awareness, numeral recognition and counting. LSLS also teaches and develops the fundamental skills needed to master handwriting. As children master the basic skills, our program continues to build on the fundamentals including beginning reading, writing and spelling.