Rising Star Preschool

Rising Star Preschool offers hands-on activities that include STEAM projects, The Creative Curriculum®, and The Kindness Curriculum. Children use a balancing beam, hula hoops, and tricycles, tend a garden, and play in an outdoor kitchen stove and science center. The program also includes baby signing, Spanish, and weekly music with congas, flutes, and cymbals, along with visits from farm animals such as goats and horses.

• Ages: 0–8 years old
• Schedule: Full-day care with hours that range from 6:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with flexible hours for 2–8 p.m. care and a waitlist

Rising Star Preschool states its mission as “Helping children reach their full potential.” The program uses blended curriculums that include STEAM, The Creative Curriculum®, and The Kindness Curriculum, with a social-emotional focus and curriculum that prepares children for kindergarten. It offers an outdoor science center and kitchen for messy play and has a farm partner that brings goats, horses, and other farm animals to school. Rising Star Preschool participates in CACFP and provides an on-site preschool chef, with healthy breakfast, lunch, and snack included as a complimentary part of the preschool experience. The program participates in CACFP to support nutritious meals.

The program uses hygiene stations on arrival, strict COVID-safe measures such as temperature checks, parents not entering the building, small classroom sizes, intensive cleaning and sanitizing, and commercial professionals disinfecting after hours. It uses a ZONO eco-friendly sanitizing system to disinfect toys, books, and materials without harsh chemicals and has cameras and new parent drop-off and pick-up routines. Rising Star Preschool offers daily updates through a parent app with reports, pictures, and videos, and provides parent participation options through potlucks, monthly meetings, and volunteer opportunities. The program has a dedicated space for speech and occupational therapies and offers weekly visits from a music specialist with congas, flutes, and cymbals. Baby signing and Spanish are included in the program, and there is support for families who qualify for subsidy programs and in-house funding. Families can schedule a tour, and there is no registration fee when joining by December 30.

Last updated April 9, 2026.