Building a Learning Foundation for Your Child
Building a Learning Foundation for Your Child
Latest News
2025-2026 School Year
New Student Registration
NOW OPEN!
Our 2024-2025 Preschool Staff
A WARM WELCOME
Building a Learning Foundation for Your Child
Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool welcomes students from all racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. We work to cultivate the individuality of each child and to encourage independence and creativity through our developmentally appropriate and play-based curriculum.
Our program is offered from 9:00 AM - 12Noon Monday-Friday for children who are 2 through 6 years old (Pre-K).
We offered an extended day lunch program till 1:30pm on select days.
A message from our Director...
With more than 65 years of experience serving the Vienna/Oakton area with high quality early education, we hope you will find Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool to be your child’s home away from home. We offer a developmentally appropriate play based curriculum that helps your child build a strong foundation of learning and interpersonal social skills for success in their future. Please reach out to me to book a tour or to help answer any questions you may have. We look forward to meeting your family!
Alison Morgan, Preschool Director
EXPERIENCE THE DIFFERENCE
With teacher-moderated activities and learning centers, your child will be encouraged to experiment and explore with others. Through play, children learn to take turns, delay gratification, negotiate conflicts, solve problems, and acquire flexibility. At Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool, we believe in allowing your child to learn and develop at their own speed. We want each child to develop a love of learning while giving them a safe space to grow in their social and emotional well being.
Many of our staff have been with us for over 10 years. As required by our Virginia Department of Education License and to ensure the safety and security of your child, all staff employment files include completed background checks, fingerprinting, TB screening and all other paperwork required by the state. All of our Lead Teachers are required to have a degree in a child-related field. Staff are also required to complete at least 16 hours of continuing education classes each year.
The preschool is an outreach ministry of Emmanuel Lutheran Church where children learn to love God, love learning, love themselves, and love all others. Our chapel program takes place every Wednesday for the last 25 minutes of school and is led by our Director, Alison Morgan and the church Pastors. Families are invited to attend during our Christmas, Easter, and end-of-year Celebration.
TESTIMONIALS
Hear from our Parents!
Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool has been a home away from home for my three kids. The staff and teachers maintain an environment where developmental learning is a non-negotiable priority, and creativity and fun consistently shape lesson plans and routines. Students are seen as individuals, and they are encouraged every day to share their interests, questions, and ideas. When my son wanted to share his favorite book with the class, his teacher turned it into a lesson plan. When my daughter wanted to pretend there was a resident mouse in the church, Mrs. Reinhart wrote her a story about it that she will treasure forever. All my children "graduated" from the preschool fully prepared for kindergarten, but more importantly, equipped with the knowledge that the world outside their home contains adventures worth discovering, and loving people worth knowing.
Amanda Holland
Mother of 3 ELP Students
In the six years that our three kids have attended ELP, we have been continually impressed with how the staff goes above and beyond to ensure the children are growing and learning. In these especially challenging times, the Director and the entire staff work tirelessly to keep the parents updated and the students feeling normal and fulfilled.
Our kids love their teachers and it is clear that the teachers love our kids, working with them while at school and continuing to ask about them after they graduate from the program. Each day our kids come home bursting with stories and can’t wait to go back the next day. It’s also become clear to us that those in the education community respect and appreciate the staff at ELP; our child meets with multiple speech therapists, all of whom say ELP is one of their favorite schools to work with. We know that when we leave our kids at ELP they are safe and loved.
As a second generation family attending ELP, we have seen how well they prepare the children for elementary school, for which we are so grateful.
Current ELP Parent
As a former teacher, I was really hoping to have a play-based preschool that was more focused on children learning how to be students, how to socialize, and how to be more independent than a school focused on numbers and letters. Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool was the best option for our family.
Now that the twins have spent two years there, we are thrilled for our third child to also attend this Fall. ELP provides a safe and loving environment. Teachers listen to concerns you may have and schedule time to meet with you when needed. My children have flourished while at preschool. All of the staff and teachers are welcoming and caring. We are very happy with our choice!
Kerry Mai
Mother of twins
Our class sizes are purposedly small to allow for optimal teacher/student interactions and student peer social/emotional growth.
2’s classes - up to 10 students with a Lead and Assistant teacher
3’s classes - up to 12 students w/two adults – a teacher and an assistant.
PreK classes - up to 12 students with a Lead and Assistant teacher
Or larger PreK class with up to 16 students (much larger room) w/up to three adults, a Lead teacher, Assistant teacher, and floating staff member.
Our staff floater is available to all classrooms throughout the day as needed.
9:00am
Arrival and Centers (Table & Floor Activities/ Manipulatives/Kitchen/Sensory Table) and Free Choice Play; Small Group Art
9:35am
Clean Up Time/Bathroom Time
9:45am
Circle Time- Morning Meeting -Literacy and Math Development
10:00am
Creative Movement & Music (once per week)
10:30am
Snack
10:50am
Puzzles and Books
11:00am
Playground
11:30am
Science/Art/STEM/Children's Garden
11:35am
Chapel (Wednesdays only)
11:55am
Closing Circle
12:00pm
Dismissal
We welcome you to come and tour our school and learn more about our program. Please click the link below and we'll contact you as soon as possible to schedule a time that works best for your schedule.
View upcoming events or programs and see how you can be part of our Emmanuel Lutheran Preschool family.