Curriculum

At High Hopes, the preschool years are a magical time of discovery, growth, and wonder. The High Hopes curriculum prepares your child for school success while nurturing their natural love of learning through play-based, child-led experiences aligned to developmental milestones.

Social-Emotional Learning

Using the Pyramid Model framework, we build essential skills your child needs to thrive:

Self-regulation: Managing feelings and behaviors
Friendship skills: Sharing, taking turns, and cooperating
Problem-solving: Working through conflicts with words
Confidence and resilience: "I can do it!" attitudes

These skills are woven into every moment of our day, giving children the tools to feel successful and capable.

Preschool girl and teacher doing art at the table.

Hands-on science experiments, sensory exploration, and creative art projects connect directly to our themes, developing critical thinking, observation skills, and fine motor coordination.

Children engage in activities like mixing colors, exploring textures, investigating nature, and creating with various materials. These multisensory activities strengthen fine motor skills, encourage self-expression, and foster curiosity about the world around them.

Each month we explore themes like All About Me, Gratitude, and Nature & Gardening. During community meetings, children engage in shared reading of theme-based books. Repeatedly revisiting the same book throughout the week helps build essential pre-literacy skills such as print awareness, letter recognition, vocabulary development, and understanding story structures.

Children also develop phonological awareness (such as identifying rhyming words and sounds) and print concepts (like knowing that print carries meaning and how to hold a book correctly), which are critical for school readiness.

Our Philosophy

Play Based • Intentional • Child-Led

We use progress monitoring to track growth while following children’s interests to spark curiosity and joy. Your child will be school-ready with strong social skills, emotional regulation, literacy and math foundations, and a genuine love of learning.

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Procare

High Hopes is committed to building meaningful connections to our families.

Procare Solution’s family engagement app immerses parents into their child’s day-to-day activities. From tracking developmental milestones to sharing photos and videos to enabling two-way communication, the Procare childcare mobile app provides information about their child’s day in real-time.

Visit Us

Come experience the High Hopes difference!

Schedule a tour to see our classrooms in action and meet the teachers and therapists who make High Hopes such a special place for children to learn, grow, and belong.

Learn More

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Preschool Hours

School Day Hours: 8:30am - 3:30pm

Before Care (limited availability): 7:30am-8:30am
Aftercare (limited availability): 3:30pm-4:30pm

Contact admissions@highhopesforkids.org or call (615) 667-9338 with any questions regarding our preschool program.

Schedule a tour of our preschool program today!

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