At North Brookfield Integrated Preschool, we recognize the importance of including both preschool children with identified developmental delays and peer models from the community. In an Integrated setting, children learn and grow together socially, emotionally, and academically. As a peer model, we expect your child to demonstrate the following:

• Age appropriate cognitive, motor, social, and speech/language skills.
• The ability to initiate and maintain positive interactions with children.
• Participate and sustain attention in group activities.
• Follow adult directions.
CURRICULUM

Our preschool curriculum is thoughtfully designed around engaging themes that align with the Massachusetts State Standards and Curriculum Frameworks, ensuring our students build a strong foundation for future learning. Through hands-on activities, play-based learning, and integrated lessons, children explore literacy, math, science, and social skills in meaningful ways. We incorporate evidence-based programs such as Lively Letters and Heggerty to support early phonemic awareness and foundational reading skills. These tools make learning fun and interactive while helping students develop the critical pre-reading skills necessary for kindergarten readiness.

Aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks, our curriculum incorporates a range of themed units—such as seasons, family, and animals—to engage children in meaningful learning. Each theme offers hands-on activities designed to support growth in academic readiness, receptive and expressive language, personal and social development, self-help skills, motor skills, and encourages practice at home. In this setting, children learn actively, with adults serving as both guides and instructors.

The Integrated Preschool Program includes a variety of curriculum targeting all academic areas and includes evidenced -based, age appropriate curriculum, such as:

1. Lively Letters: A fun, research-based reading program that helps kids learn by turning plain letters and sounds into lively, lovable characters. This curriculum uses songs, poems, coloring sheets, and more to help young students with phonemic awareness, phonics, and speech production.
2. Heggerty: A phonemic awareness curriculum that includes 10-minute lessons focused on rhymes, onset fluency, phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting. Additionally, letter names, sound recognition, and language awareness via nursery rhymes are taught.
3. Fundations: A systematic, sequential, multisensory method of teaching reading and writing skills. Key components targeted in preschool are phonological awareness, sound mastery, and phonics.
4. Everyday Speech: Collaborating with the district’s Speech Language Pathologist, Everyday Speech is used as a whole group method to teach essential skills like perspective-taking, self regulation, emotional recognition, and self-esteem.
5. Problem Solvers Curriculum and Song: Using this STEM curriculum as a guide, our lessons include mathematics, science and social studies curriculum designed to spark curiosity and build real-world understanding. In math, children practice patterns, 1:1 correspondence, number ID, opposites, and shapes/colors. In science, children explore topics like weather, plants, animals, and the five senses through hands-on experiments and observation. In social studies, they learn about community helpers, family traditions, and the world around them, helping them build social awareness and a sense of belonging. Through play-based learning and age-appropriate activities, we help children make meaningful connections and develop critical thinking skills—all while having fun!
6. Technology: We have Epson Whiteboards and iPads in each classroom. Various websites, programs and applications supplement all areas of development.
SCHEDULE

AM: Tuesday-Friday 8:45-11:15 AM PM: Tuesday-Friday 12:00-2:30 PM

Our 4 Day preschool program offers both morning and afternoon sessions to accommodate a variety of family schedules. The AM program runs from Tuesday through Friday – 8:45 AM to 11:15 AM, providing a fun and engaging start to the day for our youngest learners. For families needing an afternoon option, the PM program is available on Tuesday through Friday from 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM. Both sessions offer the same high-quality, play-based curriculum led by experienced early childhood educators in a nurturing and developmentally appropriate environment.

TUITION

***TUITION APPLIES TO PEER MODELS ONLY ***

4 days/Week $211/month; $2,110.00/yearly total

*Discounted rate pending form completion.*

CHILD FIND

Child Find is a process, required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004) to locate children ages birth through 21, who may have a disability and be eligible for early intervention or special education services.

Do you have questions or concerns about your child’s development? Preschool screenings could help you find some answers. Talk to your child’s pediatrician, preschool teacher or daycare provider about your concerns. You do not have to wait to see if your child will “outgrow” it. If you would like to address these concerns, call and make an appointment for a free screen­ing. Please call Katelinde Grenevich at 508-867-3166 *3101.

Integrated Preschool Teachers:

• Ms. Jacqueline Fernandez – jfernandez@nbschools.org
• Ms. Natasha Thomasian – nthomasian@nbschools.org

The Integrated Preschool Team also includes:

• Paraprofessionals/ABAs
• Speech and Language Pathologist/SLPA
• Occupational Therapist
• Physical Therapist
• Board Certified Behavior Analyst
• Nurse