St. Luke's
School
Est. 1956

St. Luke's School
Celebrating 50 years of excellence!

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Early Childhood

3-Year Old Program

Barbara Fry

Miss Barbara is our 3 year old, 3 day a week preschool teacher. She has been at St. Luke's for the last 6 years of her 15 years of preschool teaching. Barbara attended Hinds College in Mississippi and received an Intensive Degree in Legal Office technology. She taught in the Mississippi Public School System as an Assistant Teacher for kindergarten, 3rd, 5th, and 6th grades. She also taught Title I for grades 5 and 6. She is a member of Arkansas Early Childhood Association and a graduate of the Pre-K Early Literacy Learning Program in Arkansas.

Sherri Franko

Sherri has long been known as one of St. Luke's and Lake Hamilton's  favorite substitute teachers for preschool through third grade.  Mrs. Franko has worked for St. Luke's for two summers as a fulltime teacher and is now our four year old three day a week teacher. She attended college and travel school to become a travel agent with World Wide Travel. Her future goals are to complete her early childhood education degrees and continue her career as a preschool teacher.  Sherri has just completed her PTO president position at Lake Hamilton  Primary serving 574 students.  She is also trained in Pre-K-Ella.

Pre-Kindergarten

The pre-kindergarten and junior kindergarten programs concentrate on the developmental skills of early childhood and allow each child the opportunity to acquire important readiness skills at his/her own rate. The curriculum focuses on the development of perceptual skills, auditory and verbal communication skills, as well as pre-reading and pre-math skills.

Pre-K Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas (Pre-K ELLA) is the foundation of our Pre-K and Jr.-K curriculum. The Pre-K ELLA program implements developmentally appropriate experiences that promote emergent literacy skills for children prior to their entry into kindergarten. Pre-K ELLA is based on the Arkansas Early Childhood Education Framework.

The curriculum is supplemented by teacher-made activities and projects that enhance the planned curriculum and offer enrichment and/or remediation as needed. A calendar and a basic outline of skills to be covered will be sent home monthly.