Preschool

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  Our preschool services begins at age 2 years. This development facility offers Quality Education located in Homestead/Florida City. We are dedicated to developing each child not only academically but also physically, emotionally, and socially. Committed to providing all children with interactive and engaging experiences that support early learning growth and development. This center utilizes a balance of open, free play and teacher-guided, structured lessons that work together with students and parents to help them grow to their full potential and support learning. 

Curriculum:

Funnydaffer

Mother Goose Time

We Provide:

Flexible Hours

Low adult-to-child ratios

We Offer:

Social-Emotional Development

Physical Development

Language Development

Cognitive Development

Literacy

Mathematics

Science and Technology

Social Studies and the Arts

We Accept:

Early Learning Coalition

VPK Voucher

The Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) program at FLOTA, Inc. is designed to ensure your child is ready to start school the following year. Provided by the Early Learning Coalition (ELC), our school year program includes 540 instructional hours. The program is FREE for all 4-year-olds living in Florida and prepares them to adjust to a learning environment while giving them all the necessary skills needed for academic success.
The program is for all 4-year-old children born on or before September 1 and includes an age-appropriate curriculum focusing on early literacy. The class sizes are kept small to ensure your child gets the attention they deserve from qualified and experienced instructors.

Curriculum

The VPK focuses on literacy – reading and writing, and social skills, because of the VPK objective of preparing children for full-time kindergarten. The program follows the Department of Education guidelines which emphasizes a focus on early literacy. The quality of education is high and enhanced by the limit of teacher to student ratio. The maximum class size is 20 children per class, and the general ratio is 1 instructor to 11 children. This ensures that the teacher can give individual and quality attention to all students in the class. Children are given various activities to do and sometimes given homework tasks, teaching the children about responsibility. 

How to register?

1) Register with the ELC  https://www.elcmdm.orgYou will need your child’s social security number. The ELC has only two eligibility requirements for registration with the free VPK program:

• Proof of child’s age in the form of a birth certificate, Florida certification Immunization records, military ID or passport
• Proof of Florida residency – which must match the address of where the child resides and the address on the application – in the form of a current Florida driver’s license, current Florida state ID, mortgage statement, lease agreement, recent utility bill, vehicle registration, paycheck stub, tax return

You can register in one of two ways with the ELC:

• Online- you will need a working email address and PDF scan of the required documents.
• During walk-in hours at one of their offices- you will need copies of these documents, as you will not receive them back after the registration. They will make copies for you at their office, however if you do it beforehand it helps to speed up the process.

Once you have filled in and submitted the registration form with the required documents and your child has been registered for the free VPK program by the ELC, you will receive a Certificate of Eligibility. If you applied online you will receive the document in PDF format via your email. If you applied at the ELC office you will receive two hardcopies of the document (one yellow and one white).
2) Choose your free VPK provider and enroll your childOnce you have your Certificate of Eligibility you can look for a free VPK provider. Your ELC office should send a list of free VPK providers in your county, or you can go to the office of early learning to view free VPK providers and their readiness rates. Bear in mind that you should find the right fit for your child as the process can only be done once. After you have chosen the right VPK provider for you and your child, you will need to present the certificate to them. If you have two hard copies, you keep the white copy and the yellow copy is to be submitted to your VPK provider. If you have it as a PDF on email you may email it.

Benefit:

VPK programs stimulate the brain at an age-appropriate level, and expose children to aspects of kindergarten. Their social development is faster because of the exposure to the classroom and peer environment.