Grace Lutheran Preschool
A Place to Grow in Christ
Grace Lutheran Church and Preschool
860 Banyan Blvd.
Naples, FL 34102
Office: 239-261-7700 ext. #6
Preschool Classes Provided:
2 and 3 Year Olds
VPK 4 Year Olds
Enrollment Tours For The 2025-2026 School Year Will Begin The Week of January 6, 2025!
Please email Julie Crews at:
Julie.gracelutheranpreschool@gmail.com
OR leave a message at 261-7700 x6
Grace Lutheran Preschool opened in 1994 as a mission of the Church to provide quality early childhood education to all families in Collier County.
We provide the highest quality education to children ages 2 through 5, and take extreme pride in our strong family relationships! Our hands-on academic lessons, learn-through-play activities, and daily Bible lessons nurture our students’ kindergarten readiness and a life-long love of learning!
Why Choose Grace Preschool?
Our Teachers are Amazing!
Our teachers are loyal, dedicated, devoted, supportive, committed, inspiring, enthusiastic, focused, patient, passionate, and consistent.
Ms. Julie, Ms. Cailey and Ms. Sissy have been nurturing the students of Grace Preschool for 28, 13 and 8 years, respectively!
We Spark Lifelong Learning!
We provide a safe and nurturing environment for what might be your child's first experience away from home. While our focus is to provide a stimulating and creative early education experience, our goal is to support your child's desire to be a lifelong learner.
We Have Vision!
Our vision is to partner your family with the family at Grace. Through weekly Bible lessons, prayer, and special activities, we teach and nurture the Christian Faith, along with developmentally appropriate academics and creative, purposeful play.
We Reach Out!
We provide opportunities for children of all ages to participate in the church community, and we encourage our preschool families to volunteer, attend worship services, and joyfully share the gifts that God has given them.
★★★★★
The most wonderful preschool in Naples! We absolutely love it and so does our daughter! The teachers are AMAZING!
Ashley H.
About Our School
VPK: 4 Year Olds
VPK HOURS: 8:30am to 12:30pm M - F
Wrap Around Care available until 2:30 daily.
We use The Creative Curriculum and FunnyDaffer Curiculum to enhance our daily lessons.
We strive to maintain a warm and inviting classroom where all children feel comfortable and love to learn and explore.
Our VPK instructor and director, Ms. Julie Crews, has been teaching at Grace for 28 years and is a Naples Native! She has 3 children who attended Grace Preschool, 4 grandsons, and has been married to her husband, Eric, for 37 years.
Grace Preschool takes pride in providing low student to teacher ratios. This approach allows for exceptional quality interactions! 12 students receive the benefit of our quality VPK program each year.
Julie's love for the mission and philosophy of Grace Preschool has been steadfast for the 28 years she has been teaching at Grace. As academic standards continue to rise, Julie is dedicated to providing developmentally appropriate practices that nurture her students’ love of learning.
Julie is passionat about nurturing each child's individual learning style and takes pride in teaching her students with and abundance of exciting hands on learning activities. By providing "teachable moments" and "student-lead” lessons, Julie has continued to send her VPK children to kindergarten ready for any challenge!
Our partenership with our Grace Preschool families is of the utmost importance. Together we make a difference!
VPK HOURS:
8:30am to 12:30pm M - F
Wrap Around Care is Available until 2:30. We have 2 convenient pick up times throughout the day. Please visit our enrollment section to see pickup times.
Our classrooms are well thought out and designed to nurture our students’ interests and strengthen their love for learning!
Every week at Grace Preschool something new and exciting is happening!
Discovery is a critical part of a child’s learning process! We encourage active investigation and exploration in our classrooms to help our students retain information and develop a deeper understanding of concepts.
2 and 3 Year Olds
This classroom is open from 8:30am to 2:30 Monday - Friday. We use The Creative Curriculum and FunnyDaffer Curriculum to enhance our daily activities.
2 + 3 Year Old Teacher Ms. Cailey Crews
Sissy is our VPK and 2/3 year old Assistant Teacher
Our warm and welcoming 2 & 3 year old classroom is home to 10 students each school year.
This classroom hosts a flexible enrollment option that offers something for every family... full time or part time working families...or families that wish to enroll their child only a few days a week.
Our amazing 2/3 year old teacher is Cailey Crews. Cailey is a Naples Native and a Grace Lutheran Preschool alumni student! She began her journey at Grace when she was 2 years old. :)
Cailey brings excitement into her classroom and enjoys sharing her love of the environment with her students. Cailey is highly creative and she enjoys sharing this blessing with all of us! An abundance of creative opportunities abound in this room! You will also witness the children learning through purposeful play and cooperation with one another.
Social and emotional skills are so important at this age, and Cailey nurtures these skills perfectly and consisently. She strives to work hand in hand with her preschool families to ensure that her students are progressing in all areas of learning.
Cailey is assisted by our wonderful Sissy Hanrahan, who has been our assistant teacher for seven years. Sissy brings a warmth to our environment that is so incredibly important when nurturing young children! Sissy is passionate about having close relationships with the children and families in both of our preschool classrooms. She is the perfect co-teacher and co-creator for Grace Lutheran Preschool!
Sissy is a Naples Native and has two wonderful children who also attended Grace Lutheran!
Extra Activities
Our students receive DAILY Jesus Time lessons in the classroom with Ms. Julie. Special enrichment during the week also includes music class and weekly Chapel in our church sanctuary.
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Music Class for our VPK students is held each Tuesday morning in the Church Sanctuary. Class is led by our church Music Director (Cantor), Jonathan Birner.
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Chapel is held every Wednesday morning at 11:15 in the Church Sanctuary and is led by Pastor Lingsch.
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Both classes come together for Jesus Time with Ms. Julie!
We learn about our weekly Bible Lesson as a school every morning. The children look forward to learning about the Bible through songs, object lessons, and hands on activities each day!
We Love Our Outdoor Space!
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Year-Round Habitat
We learn so much about nature in the amazing "habitat" provided by the screen enclosure! Our Monarch Butterfly life cycle happens naturally throughout the entire year! The children are ALWAYS excited to see this happen right in front of their eyes! Here we are, watching a butterfly lay eggs on our Milkweed Plants!
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Clean & Safe Play
With generous donations from our Grace Lutheran Church Members, the preschool was able to install artificial turf on our entire screened in playground. This turf allows for clean, safe play and provides a great foundation for every type of learning activity a playground has to offer!
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Extension of the Classroom
We use our playground as an extension of the classroom by providing many learning opportunities to happen during our recess times. Students exercise their creativity and their bodies, smell the fresh air and build social skills together.
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Active All Year!
We are so blessed to live in Naples, Florida where the weather is great almost all year, and we can spend time outside in our screened-in playground, complete with a track for trikes and walking. We even have fabric kites to help shield us from the sun when it gets hot outside!
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Come Play!
Come take a look at everything Grace Lutheran Church and Preschool has to offer you and your growing family. We know you’ll be delighted by what you see!
Contact Julie Crews
239-261-7700 x6
julie.gracelutheranpreschool@gmail.com
Join the Grace Preschool Family
We are dedicated to maintaining a strong relationship with our families. As a part of our preschool family, you will experience a difference not found in any other preschool. We partner with parents to help children become:
INQUISITIVE
DETERMINED
CREATIVE
SELF-ASSURED
SELF-RELIANT
COMPASSIONATE
CONSIDERATE
RESPECTFUL
LOVING
Experience the difference you will not find in any other preschool!
Enrollment
Enrollment (Begins 1/6/2025)
2 year olds must be 2 by August 15th
VPK: 4 BY SEPTEMBER 1ST:
