Community Arts Preschool at Shadelands is an arts-based developmental program that focuses on the whole child. This program uses three major preschool domains:

• Social/emotional
• Physical
• Cognitive development

We use an integrated approach to encourage each child’s creativity and learning through visual arts, music, movement, and the dramatic arts. We offer three age-specific programs at our Shadelands location.

Twos Class (24 – 35 months)

For many young children, this will be their first experience in a school setting without their parents. We emphasize social/emotional development, and we help each child through separation anxiety as they become an independent member of the group. Learning is experiential at this stage and includes:

• Sensory motor learning stations
• Arts-integrated activities
• Working with manipulatives
• Tactile experiences

Children receive hands-on experience in each learning domain with age-appropriate learning centers. 

Threes Class (36 – 47 months)

Our Threes class is the sequential connection between our Twos class and our Fours class. We encourage children's creativity through art while they develop strong peer connections and build independent skills. Our project-based curriculum progresses as the children’s emerging thoughts and ideas develop within the group. We continue to emphasize social/emotional development as we prepare children for our Fours classes.

Students must be 3 years old by September 1 of the school year.

Fours Class (48 – 57 months)

The Fours classes helps children prepare for Kindergarten or Transitional Kindergarten programs in the coming year. Our curriculum focuses on creative problem solving and self-expression through the arts and includes a Studio Day once a week. Our teachers guide the projects that are guided by the child's interest. We provide age-appropriate challenges in:

• Art
• Language
• Math
• Science
• Pre-kindergarten skills

Our language-rich program helps children to expand their vocabulary, which deepens language and early reading and writing skills. 

The Fours class at Shadelands requires that children be potty-trained at the time of enrollment.

Location & Schedule

Classes operate five days a week throughout the year. All classes are half-day (3 hours), morning or afternoon.

Register for Community Arts Preschool at Shadelands.

111 N. Wiget Lane
Walnut Creek, CA 94598
Phone: (925) 943-5846
Fax: (925) 988-9907