{"id":108,"date":"2020-02-21T21:15:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:41:53","slug":"4-5yo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/the-experience\/programs\/4-5yo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fours &#038; Fives: Preschool"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p><strong>Enrollment:<\/strong>&nbsp;16\u201318 children and three teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Program Options<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8:15 am to 4:00 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8:15 a.m. to 5:00\u20135:15 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This preschool classroom provides a larger mixed age group experience, and is generally the child\u2019s last year of nursery school before going to Kindergarten.&nbsp;The fours &amp; fives curriculum capitalizes on the children\u2019s increasingly sophisticated language, imagination, critical thinking, dramatic play, and social skills. Four and five-year-olds engage in construction, book making, story telling, cooking, science experiments, elaborate projects, emergent investigations, and campus field trips.&nbsp;These kinds of  learning opportunities give children the deep experience in thinking, listening, collaborating, and meaning making that sets the&nbsp;foundation for academic success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/12\/34ef4cd8-c5e9-498f-a7da-985f47fa4cfc_display.jpeg\" alt=\"Adult using hand gestures while small children sit on a colorful rug and listen in a classroom with books displayed behind them.\" class=\"wp-image-723\" 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Program Options: 8:15 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. 8:15 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 8:15 am to 4:00 p.m. 8:15 a.m. to 5:00\u20135:15 p.m. This preschool classroom provides a larger mixed age group experience, and is generally the child\u2019s last year of nursery school before going to Kindergarten.&nbsp;The fours &amp; fives curriculum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/877"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/wimpfheimer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}