Little Aggies Preschool & Child Development Labs

Enrollment Information

Our programs offer children a hands-on, discovery-based learning environment. Teachers focus their planning based on the developmental needs and interests of the children in their classrooms.

Families are an integral part of our program and our goal is to keep you well informed of what your child is doing on a daily basis. Each day we send home a note to let you know what we are doing and what we are learning. There are many ways you, as a caregiver, can be involved. At the beginning of the year, we ask you to fill out a survey assessing the development of your child. With this information, we tailor the classroom activities to help enhance your child’s development. We highly recommend volunteering in the classroom (spending a day or part of a day with us, sharing an interest or talent, or going on a field trip), observing in the observation booths, participating in home visits, and attending parent-teacher conferences. We also have some family events throughout the year which you will be invited to attend. Regardless of your schedule, there are many opportunities to be involved in your child’s preschool experience and we welcome your participation.

Uou can enroll your child by clicking “Apply to Waitlist” at the top right of the screen. When a child’s application is received, his or her name is placed on the waiting list. We accept ¾ of each group on the basis of the application date. We accept the remaining ¼ of each group based on other specific criteria to balance the class groups. Keep in mind that many children have been on the waitlists since birth, so the lists can be long.

Teachers

Pre-Requisites

Our Philosophy

Regardless of the child's age, social competency goals are inherent in every program. While the methods for attaining the goals may vary with age, these underlying goals provide a thread of continuity for the Laboratory as a whole.

Basic to the social competency framework is the notion that children learn most effectively through active exploration and participation in their environment. Moreover, each child has specific interests, curiosities, talents, and a self-esteem that must be nurtured and enhanced.

Each program is built upon a foundation of providing children with a wide variety of developmentally appropriate divergent activities, a stimulating multi-sensory environment, opportunities for discovery and making choices, interpersonal interactions, and independence-promoting experiences. It is recognized that there is no single standard towards which all children work. Instead, children progress according to their individual abilities in developing, for example, independence, cognitive skills, creative thinking, problem-solving strategies, curiosity, self-help skills, and interpersonal skills.

Our Facility

Our beautiful facility is located in Roosevelt on USU Uintah Basin’s campus. We have two preschool classrooms; one for three-year-old children and one for four-year-old children. Each classroom has been professionally designed to meet the developmental needs of the children who attend. There are large windows to provide natural lighting and large outdoor and indoor play areas to support gross motor development. The play spaces within the classrooms are carefully planned to support learning. Each classroom has a well-developed dramatic play center, sensory table, art easel, wide variety of blocks and manipulatives, writing center, book center, large group area, individual cubbies, and child-sized bathrooms, sinks, and tables and chairs. Our classrooms provide an environment that is safe, nurturing, engaging, and stimulating.