The EARLY Years Are LEARNING Years
At Encompass Preschool, We Help Make Them Count!

Online and in-person registration is now under way
for the 2010-2011 school year!


BLOCK-HENGE


Erica (top) builds her own version of Stonehenge, while Nitya (lower left) and Kyler follow suit with their own colorful block creations. (Photos by Nikki Slaght)

Encompass Preschool is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, a widely recognized mark of high-quality. To view a 90-second video about this group's accreditation process click accreditation.

Creative Curriculum for Preschool has been adopted as the foundation for all planning and assessing for students. Click here to view a chapter from the Creative Curriculum manual on How Children Develop and Learn

Please click here for our updated Early Learning Handbook!

Preschool offers:

• Highly qualified, certified teachers and staff 
• Low Ratios 6:1 
• Individual Learning Plan for each child 
• Engaging learning experiences 
• Nutritious, family-style meals served 
• Family enrichment activities 
• Opportunities for parent participation in classrooms

Sample Lesson Plan
Sample Schedule

Class schedules: 2010-2011

Classes begin the week of Sept. 7, 2010.

4 yrs old by Aug. 31, 2010 - $290/month
Room 1: Mon, Tues & Wed 9 a.m.-noon
Room 1: Mon, Tues & Wed 12:45-3:45 p.m.
Room 2: Mon, Tues & Wed 9 a.m.-noon
Room 2: Mon, Tues & Wed 12:45-3:45 p.m.

3 yrs old by Aug. 31, 2010 - $290/month
Room 3: Mon, Tues & Wed 9 a.m.-noon
Room 3: Mon, Tues & Wed 12:45-3:45 p.m.

Children with fall birthdays, September-December, will be admited depending on availablity and individual screenings.

Each child's immunization must be up to date prior to entering the classroom.

A $30 registration fee plus the last month's tuition installment is required to confirm your child's enrollment. The balance of the annual tuition will be billed in nine installments.

For more information, please contact
Kristina Steffen, Early Childhood Education Manager, ext.250

Free or low-cost preschool for income-eligible families.

• Highly qualified, certified teachers 
• Educational home visits 
• Individual Learning Plans 
• Nutritious, family-style meals 
• Family Support component

The no-cost or low-cost Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP) is available in our North Bend preschool.

Each child’s immunization must be up to date prior to entering the classroom.

For more information, please contact Paula Nelson, ECEAP Family Support Specialist; ext. 242


FOR THE KINDERGARTEN-BOUND:
Are you enrolling your preschool graduates in Snoqualmie Valley School District kindergarten?
For your convenience, please click here to open and print out a complete packet of the district's
2010-2011 kindergarten registration materials.



TEACHING THE TEACHERS -- AT ENCOMPASS!

Preschools, parent educators benefit from Encompass training sessions

NORTH BEND, Wash. (spring 2009) — Encompass, the premier children and family services organization in the Snoqualmie Valley, is known for its longstanding excellence in educating preschoolers and teaching parents to improve their skills. Increasingly, however, Encompass is also carving an enhanced reputation: as a premier place to teach the teachers. Evidence of this trend abounded in 2009:

* The Puget Sound Educational Service District (PSESD) brought to Encompass on Friday, March 20, a dozen teachers of preschoolers from families with low incomes. The teachers, part of the state’s Early Childhood Education Assistance Program (ECEAP), attended a full-day workshop focusing on the use of environmental cues to invite inquiry and deepen curiosity in children, says Candace McKenzie, PSESD education coordinator. To prepare for the session, McKenzie came to Encompass to videotape teacher Julie Forslin’s “circle time,” during which Forslin elicits preschoolers’ ideas to create an “emergent curriculum.” “Encompass does a lot of things that we enjoy showing other teachers,” McKenzie says.

* The state Department of Social and Health Services sponsored a statewide, three-day Parent-Child Interaction Training (PCIT) seminar on March 11-13 at Encompass. PCIT is a nationally recognized, evidence-based program to boost parenting skills and reduce child behavior problems. Seven future PCIT providers from Spokane, Lacey, Bothell and Seattle attended the training, conducted by Encompass PCIT coach Michelle Rhoades and Lindsay Weller, coach.

* A four-part series of Community Workshops for Child Care Providers, sponsored by the Snoqualmie Valley Child Care Provider Network Project, kicked off on Thursday, March 26, at Encompass. The two-hour workshops (also on April 23, May 16 and June 13) were designed to address cultural competency, healthy eating, environmental toxins and teacher self-care. Kristina Steffen, Encompass manager of early learning, who co-teaches the free sessions (funded by a state grant), says up to 30 local preschool providers will attend the series to amass the training hours required to retain their licenses.

* Steffen also taught an evening session March 12 at Encompass on classroom environments for 25 Snoqualmie Ridge Early Learning Center staff. Lynn Staude, center director, called the training “wonderful” and noted that her pre-kindergarten teacher “got inspired and changed her whole classroom. It truly looks amazing.”