PRA Kindergarten Prep exists to support parents with 

a developmentally-appropriate,  social-emotional and academic approach.  This will prepare them to move on to any rigorous kindergarten when they reach that level (many of our students attend Platte River Academy). To support this, we create a community of deep thinkers through academically rich, experiential learning.

Platte River Academy Kindergarten Prep has programs for children who are at least 2 an 1/2 years old in August.  Children are grouped by age group and by the expected year of kindergarten. This guideline enables students and their families to establish relationships with the students they are likely to attend kindergarten with.

 As an extension of Platte River Academy, PRA Kindergarten Prep holds firm to the commitment to offer to students and their families a solid curriculum alternative. The academic program follows the Core Knowledge Foundation’s content-based curriculum as outlined in the Scope and Sequence and also in the book series by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., What Kindergartner Needs to Know, et al. PRA has high academic expectations and emphasizes an intentional integration of the skills needed to begin the mastery of basic skills, such as language arts and mathematics. 

The Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence (CKPS) is an age-appropriate set of model guidelines describing the foundational competencies and specific knowledge that provide coherent foundations for later learning in kindergarten and beyond. The CKPS gives attention to the physical, social, linguistic, and cognitive (intellectual) aspects of development. major areas of skills and knowledge addressed in the Core Knowledge Preschool Sequence.

Using this as a framework, KPrep teachers strive to integrate curriculum and instruction across disciplines and to begin to develop students’ problem solving and critical thinking skills academically and socially. 

At the KPrep level, much focus is given to the building blocks that will enable our students to make meaningful connections that enable a natural and stress-free transition into the kindergarten curriculum.

The KPrep classrooms promote and develop great character in their students and teach children to treat others as they themselves would want to be treated. Specific character values which include integrity, respect, responsibility, and compassion are modeled and strongly encouraged, just as they are in the elementary and middle school grades. 

We have worked very diligently to find qualified and nurturing staff that can equip our youngest students both academically and social-emotionally.

We value the parent-staff partnership and are intentional about cultivating a flourishing community where children can see some of the most important people in their lives working together and integrating family to the PRA community.

We know that when every member of our community feels valued, respected, and confident in our ability to enable learning, students thrive.