Lake Harriet United Methodist Preschool – Where kids love to learn!

Ages Served: 6 weeks-6 years • Enrollment: Full and Part-time • Days: Monday-Friday • Hours: 7:30 am – 5:30 pm

Welcome!

Lake Harriet UM Preschool offers a high quality, play-based, early childhood educational program for young children in a warm, nurturing, environment.

Our Mission: to inspire a lifelong love of learning!

In educating the whole child: socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively by providing
an atmosphere where the creativity, uniqueness, and self-esteem of each child are nurtured.

Lake Harriet is a fun, happy place to be!

Our goals' are to provide...

A community where each child is understood, loved, and accepted leading to a positive self-concept.
Activities through which each child learns to control emotions, leading to self-discipline.
Opportunities where children become excited about learning and are successful learners.
A place that opens new horizons: to explore and wonder!

Why Our Preschool?

Through child-led play and open-ended exploration, children build the foundational sense of self by developing confidence, creativity, and imagination alongside social and emotional skills. In an intentional, connected community, they learn to share, collaborate, and care for one another. Through time spent outdoors and hands-on discovery, they grow a lifelong sense of wonder and respect for the world and communities around them.

Preschool provides a foundation for learning, both socially and academically.

Young children are naturally curious and observant. They want to learn the skills that their families and society value — such as reading the instructions for assembling a toy, or selecting the correct bills or coins to pay for a purchase. To prepare children for the academic demands of school, teachers will offer a wide variety of games and activities that will help them acquire necessary academic but also social skills.

Preschool will help your child develop socially and emotionally.

In preschool, your children will learn how to compromise, be respectful towards others, and solve problems. Preschool will provide a place where your child will gain a sense of self, explore, play with their peers, and build confidence. Kids in preschool usually discover that they are capable and that they can do things for themselves. They will learn wonders – from small tasks like pouring their own juice and helping set snack tables, to tackling bigger issues like making decisions, working out problems, and self-regulation.

Preschool will help your children find answers to their numerous questions.

Preschoolers start asking some wonderful questions about the world around them, like “what happens to the water after the rain? Do birds play?” Preschool will teach your children to find answers through exploration, experimentation, and conversation.

Preschool will prepare children for elementary school

Don’t be afraid that focus on development of pre-math and pre-literacy skills will make your child grow up too soon. These will not cut into important play time that every child deserves. Our high-quality preschool program is based on learning through play, so learning is fun!

We Strive...

To provide a community where each child is understood, loved, and accepted leading to a positive self-concept.
To provide activities through which each child learns to control emotions, leading to self-discipline.
To provide opportunities where children become excited about learning and are successful learners.To provide a program that opens new horizons: to explore and wonder!

We are a MN licensed and NAEYC accredited preschool program.

Program specifics are available on our Program page.