PRIMARY PROGRAM

Students can enroll at age three and toilet trained

Parents in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, and the surrounding communities turn to Daycroft School to provide a highly personalized and enriching educational experience for their preschool-age children.

Daycroft’s Primary classrooms offer a thoughtfully prepared environment that supports learning across key areas, including Practical Life, Sensorial, Math, Language, Science, Geography, and Culture. These curriculum areas are designed with both direct and indirect goals in mind, fostering order, concentration, coordination, and independence in young learners.

Additionally, grace and courtesy are fundamental aspects of the preschool experience at Daycroft. These values are consistently modeled by teachers and integrated into daily classroom interactions, helping to nurture respectful and empathetic behavior in every child.

  • Personalized to Your Child

    Daycroft’s preschool curriculum emphasizes practical life, sensory education, language arts, mathematics, and creative play.

    Your child receives individualized attention from two Montessori-certified teachers in each Daycroft preschool classroom.

    With guidance from our teachers, your child makes choices, develops skills, and discovers the joy of learning.

  • Personalized to Your Schedule

    Preschool is a five day a week program.

    Before-school and after-school care is available as well as enrichment programs.

  • Practical Life - Real Life Skills

    Self-care: dressing and feeding oneself and independent toileting

    Gross muscle development, to strengthen balance and core muscles

    Fine motor development of the wrist, pincer grip, and left to right movement

    Introduction of the work cycle

    Food Preparation

  • Sensorial - Learning Through the Senses

    Visual activities to explore color, shape, size and comparison

    Tactile exploration opportunities

    Listening to distinguish sound

  • Language

    Receptive listening

    Expressive speech

    Language and movement combined

    Vocabulary/nomenclature

    Appropriate social language modeled and used

    Voice modulation

  • Mathematics

    Activities to order objects

    Experiences with quantity

    Mathematical vocabulary introduced

    Guided counting activities

    A consistent, predictable environment and a schedule that respects the children’s inner drive for order

  • Science

    Time spent outdoors in all seasons

    Purposeful observation of the outdoor environment

    Vocabulary to describe observations and experiences

    Natural objects available in the classroom for exploration

Learn about our Young 5 & Kindergarten classroom