We believe that a child’s work is play. Our experienced and caring teachers provide child-centered, play-based, and arts-integrated experiences inspired by Reggio Emilia practices.

Community Arts Preschool offers a number of options for your child including a Twos, Threes, Fours, Mixed Age and TK classes. Each day we immerse your child in an inclusive, safe, and nurturing environment that promotes their unique social, emotional, intellectual and physical development. They’ll work on their language and writing skills and take part in fun visual arts, music, movement, and storytelling activities to develop their creativity. They’ll also have plenty of outside play time.

Preschool & TK Enrichment Classes

Program Goals

At Community Arts Preschool, we strive to:

Enhance a positive self-image, a sense of self-worth and self-direction.
Provide appropriate learning experiences through play and the integration of art using a balance of teacher directed and self-directed activities that will contribute to children's needs in all areas of development: socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively.
Provide meaningful experiences for children as a basis for developing learning skills and concepts.
Recognize every child is unique. We value their emerging ideas and individual efforts, along with their need to learn, explore and discover at their own pace.
Facilitate learning in an environment where children are free to learn through concrete experiences and take responsibility for their own choices.
Foster responsibility, respect, empathy, and care for the environment.
Value the diversity of the community we serve and maintain open communication with families.

Our Curriculum

Our curriculum is a sequential age-appropriate curriculum that uses the visual arts, music, movement, and dramatic activities to develop creativity. For example, within our visual art curriculum we will use glazed clay, painting, drawing, building, and assembling to develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, in addition to shape and color recognition.

Moving to music and inventing dances, counting out the number of beats, and listing to patterns encourage listening and early number recognition skills. Animated story time, creative dramatics, and puppets promote imagination, language, and social skills. We expose children to a wide variety of resource materials for art, drama, movement, and music.

Community Arts Preschool has a long history in the Walnut Creek community. This program is provided through the City of Walnut Creek’s Arts and Recreation Department. It is a part-time, recreational preschool enrichment program, which is not required to be licensed by the State. The Department of Social Services, Child Care Licensing exempts any preschool program, offered by a city recreation department, providing that it is not childcare.

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