Lighthouse Preschool
126 S. Ridgewood Avenue, DeLand, Florida 32720

     Our Preschool provides great opportunities for fun and learning for our preschoolers.  We have large, shaded, fully equipped playgrounds, lots of field trips, special programs featuring our preschoolers, and even chapel services where they love to sing together.

 

Preschoolers enjoy Inflatable Carnival

  

  The whole campus exudes love and care for you and your precious preschoolers.  It is part of the reason our day care centers were voted the "best" in West Volusia County by the writers of the News-Journal.

     Conveniently located just five minutes from the hospital or downtown DeLand, it is especially convenient for county employees, school board employees, hospital employees, and all who commute from eastern Lake County.  It is just one block south of Hwy. 44 at the corner of Old New York (the road to Lake Beresford, the Amtrak Train Station, and Hontoon State Park) and S. Ridgewood Ave.  (It's across the street from Pondo's Restaurant).

    At Lighthouse Christian Academy Preschool and Day Care, we believe it is of prime importance that each child develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  We seek to promote an atmosphere of positive Biblical truth in order to encourage a child and his/her understanding of God's love, and be in a position where each will recognize there is a need for a personal relationship with God at an early age.

    Bible stories are presented every day as part of the A BEKA curriculum that we use.
     We realize that there are some different approaches to specific doctrines within the different Christian churches.  It is not our intention to promote these differences in the Christian educational process of our preschool program, but instead to promote unity.  We teach the Bible and leave the finer points of doctrine to the child's parents and pastor.
     We also have academic goals for each class level.  They are:

A K-2 Student (Age 2 before entering preschool)
    Counts 1-25
    Learns concepts of numbers 1-10 (quantity) 
    Introduced to letters
    Introduced to the sound that a letter makes
    Does lots of coloring
    Makes lots of crafts
    Learns colors and shapes
    Trained to use good manners
    Develops social skills

A K-3 Student (Age 3 by September 1st)
    Taught good manners
    Learns to recognize letters (A-Z)
    Counts from 1-30
    Learns concept of numbers 1-15 (quantity)
    Differentiates between big and little
    Does lots of coloring
    Introduced to pre-writing skills

A K-4 Student (Age 4 by September 1st)                                                        we love to picnic   
     Taught good manners                                     

     Learns to recognize letters (A-Z)
     Learns the sound each letter makes
     Learns to sound out blends and small words for reading
     Counts from 1-100 and counts from 10-100 by 10's
     Writes with a pencil
     Learns to write each letter
     Learns to write numbers from 1-20
     Develops concept of numbers from 1-20 (quantity)
     Distinguishes between left and right
     Cuts with scissors    

For more information please phone us at 386-734-5380

Ruth Dormire, South Campus Administrator