About FLCP

Mission Statement

Forest Lake Christian Preschool (FLCP) provides a developmentally appropriate, academically rich, nurturing environment where the preschool-age child develops a lifelong love of learning and knowledge of God’s love and creation. We celebrate the journey in the early years of child development and recognize our role as educators to embrace and nurture each child's uniqueness. FLCP strives to facilitate learning experiences that engage and challenge growing minds.

Program Highlights

FLCP embraces a Christ-centered curriculum that focuses on early childhood education. The early years of your child's education are an incredibly exciting time of growth and development, and it is our goal and privilege to foster in them a love of learning and an endless sense of wonder and curiosity for the amazing world that God has created.

Age Requirements

We serve children between the ages of 3 years old by September 1 to Kindergarten entry. Our teachers encourage students to find answers amongst their peers, help each other, thrive in a community of learners in all stages, and gain respect for individuals learning at their own pace.

 

Curriculum

FLCP is child-centered and follows the growing interests of our students. Our teachers help children make decisions about the direction of study, group research, and project showcase. We live life through Christ and this value is shared with our youngest learners from the first moment we welcome them through our doors.

Our teachers work alongside our students and design experiences to inspire curiosity. This includes a play-based curriculum, engaging classrooms, a spirit of inquiry, progress documentation, collaboration, and connection. Together we explore primary colors, metamorphosis in nature, writing, building structures, enjoy the sensory experience of mud between our fingertips, and create a life inspired.

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Academics

Early literacy and numeracy development provide opportunities for individual development through structured lessons in addition to real-world applications through everyday explorations. FLCP values the “Hundred Languages of Children” where a child's "language" creatively expresses their thinking through modalities such as play, drawing, speaking, dancing, writing, singing, sculpting, painting, and acting. With this foundation, students thrive in their educational journey.

Christ Centered

At Forest Lake Christian Preschool, we work to equip our students for their time at school and beyond. The Bible is incorporated into everything that goes on in your child’s school day. Students explore all that God’s world has to offer, how He guides and nurtures their lives, and experience the living Word unfold in their everyday encounters.

Collaboration and Connection

Children at FLCP are viewed as competent individuals capable of taking an active role in their learning. With equal respect in mind, the teacher’s role is a learner alongside the students. On a larger scale, we aspire to build a strong connection where our children, teachers, parents, and community work together to support each other through our faith.

Environment

Each space is designed and resourced with our youngest learners in mind. Great attention to detail is given to each classroom, as the environment is often referred to as the "third teacher.” The aesthetic beauty of FLCP is an important part of their learning environment and creates an environment where learning is irresistible.

Learning Process

Inquiry shapes a significant part of our learning culture. Each child has a wealth of knowledge and our teachers encourage investigation through promoting play, discovery, and exploration. Students advance in developing their knowledge, conceptual understanding, skills, and attributes of independent learners.

Student development is documented and communicated in a variety of ways such as teacher observations, anecdotal records, visual media, narratives, student work samples, project artifacts, parent communication apps, newsletters, and blogs. Our classroom walls often display work and pictures of children engaged in experiences, and their words as they discuss what they feel and think. This visual representation helps revisits their interests, thoughts, and supports their next steps.