Larsen’s favorite part of her job is being involved with the families and watching their students’ families turn into friends. If you want to guarantee a spot for your child at Smarty Pants Preschool, register in January because sometimes they can have a waitlist for classes. They have teachers who specialize in teaching Spanish, STEAM, Preschool, and their Discovery class for 2-3 year-olds. The aids have their Early Childhood Development Degree and all their staff are highly trained. The head teachers are licensed and certified and have around 15 years of experience each. Parents happily bring their younger children to teachers their older ones loved so much. The school has twelve teachers and a lot of them have been there since the SmartyPants opened. The SmartyPants Preschool staff understands the process of learning and how to transition kids into taking the next step in the child’s education. If they can’t handle the classroom and being in a group setting, students will not be successful academically. This is one of the reasons why teachers want all their students to go through Smarty Pants. Children have play time at SmartyPants and they learn how to get along with peers, share, resolve conflict, and take turns. The social experience children get through preschool is very valuable. This is what helps them to be successful when they move on from grade to grade. “It’s not what we teach it’s how we teach.” Larsen said this foundation gives children educational self-esteem because they know how to handle themselves in a classroom. The love and the attitudes the teachers bring as they teach here make all the difference though. It is teaching children how to be students and instilling a love of learning that will help them excel as they move from grade to grade. Preschool is usually a child’s first introduction to a classroom setting, and learning the academic lessons like letters and numbers isn’t the only purpose of it. “There’s not another age I’d rather teach! The kids love to be there and everything is magical at this age.” Larsen and all the staff at Smarty Pants chose to teach preschool because they love children, especially this age. Amber Hodges said in a blog post, her son’s teacher always greeted him with a bear hug when he arrived, and when they’d see her at the grocery store she came over and made a big deal about how much she loved him. When a child comes to this preschool, they are loved. Our kids pass the kindergarten readiness test by a mile,” said Larsen. “We give them a firm foundation and a love of learning. Larsen said kindergarten teachers frequently tell them the kids who come from SmartyPants are more ready than other children from any other preschool in the area. “It wasn’t super hard for us to start from scratch because we already had an awesome teacher, Jodi Lafeber… I built the preschool around what I wanted for my kids and other people saw the value in it as well.” Larsen said it’s always hard starting a new school, but she believes a community recognizes the difference when high quality makes an appearance. She owned a couple preschools in Morgan and Mountain Green, but her husband teaches at Weber High and they wanted to be closer to his work. SmartyPants Preschool began around 7 years ago when Hali Larsen and her husband relocated to North Ogden. Note: "N/A" means the data are not available or not applicable.“We’re like one big family over here, it’s great!” Source: PSS Private School Universe Survey data for the 2019-2020 school year School does not belong to ANY associations or organizations NOTE: The inclusion or exclusion of a school in this locator does NOT constitute an endorsement of the school and should NOT be used in any way to infer the accreditation status of the school.
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