A Time for Building Confidence and Self-Assurance
The ECP for Junior Kindergarten (ECP JK) extends the philosophy and approach of ECP 3-4 for children who will be age five by December 31st or those who may meet the Kindergarten age requirement but would benefit from the ECP JK year. Children move through developmental stages at different rates and in different ways. Trinity’s ECP JK program provides time, space, and expert teacher facilitation for children to continue maturing, to integrate learning skills, and to practice social relationships. The ECP JK child leaves the program with confidence, prepared to begin the elementary years.

A Snapshot of the Student
Child’s play is child’s work. Within the stimulating classroom environment, the child, peers, and teachers make choices as they explore learning areas and materials. Using language and intentional relationships, students make Plans anticipating what they intend to do, how, and with whom. Teachers guide the child’s articulation of the Plan and facilitate the child’s reflection on completed work to instill self-awareness and independence in learning.

During project work, students design, create, and represent ideas and discoveries through conversation, art, writing, and inventing. Teachers value students’ graphic language whether expressed in a painting, a sculpture, or written words. The visual representation of children’s ideas becomes increasingly deliberate as teachers record and read back. Thus children establish the foundation for later formal reading and writing instruction.

ECP JK attends Chapel once, and after January, twice a week to explore the idea of God and our relationship to God and each other.