02/24/2025
Great reminder!
Happy Times Pre School
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Happy Times Preschool offers a positive, creative learning environment in a cozy, neighborhood location. Visit and see why our school is so special!
Happy Time’s mission is to create a warm and nurturing environment that will facilitate the best available early education for your child to ensure a lifetime love of learning.
02/24/2025
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09/04/2024
Help one of our amazing families, eat a delicious meal local and drink beer?! 🙋🏻♀️ Sign Me Up! ❤️
12/09/2023
Santa is here!
Check out Ralph's World summer concert schedule and information on his Ravina show!
Ravinia: https://www.ravinia.org/ShowDetails/2098/ralphs-world
Summer schedule: https://www.ralphsworld.com/shows
05/09/2023
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all our amazing, dedicated teachers here at Happy Times! We are so lucky to have all of you!
03/08/2023
We use small pencils!
Here’s a quick little thought/frustration of mine: Please, please, let kindergarteners (and first graders) (and I’d even say second graders!) use half-pencils instead of full pencils.
I say “let” because I keep having to write it into IEPs as an accommodation. I wish it was just the normal!
Children’s hands are 4-5 inches in circumference. Adult hands are 7-8 inches in circumference. And yet adults and very small children alike are expected to use 7.5 inch long pencils.
The equivalent ratio for an adult (using some averages) would be using a 12.5 inch long pencil about as wide as a thick marker! Imagine how unwieldy that would be. Add an eraser to the end of it and now you’ve got even more weight counterbalancing all of the fine motor control you’re trying to do at the pencil end. And all of that with muscles that are brand-new to fine motor control at all and not very coordinated at it…so imagine, really, trying to write with a 12.5 inch long pencil with your non-dominant hand.
You might very well get referred to me for OT when all you needed in the first place was a writing utensil the right size for your hand, from the beginning (not as a special accommodation)!
[Image description: A simple photograph of a regular-sized pencil and a half-sized, shortened pencil side by side. End description.]
01/19/2023
*January 19th CANCELLED* Next date January 26th!
Open enrollment has begun!
Current availability for 2023-2024:
Jr's (2's) Open
Preschool (3's) Tuesday/Thursday ONLY
Pre-Kindergarten (4's) Limited.
Happy World Teacher Day to all our HT Teachers! We have hit the jack pot with our crew and we couldn’t be more proud of all the hard work and the dedication they put into their classrooms and students. Thank you Ms Sara, Ms Julie, Ms Rachel, Ms Liz, Ms Melissa, and Ms Kelsey!
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Our Story
Happy Times Preschool is a privately owned, traditional preschool that emphasizes the development of the whole child, in an early childhood setting. Sandra Owen- Garcia and Elizabeth Owen- Linahon, sisters who took over the school in 2013, own and operate Happy Times along with 5 additional early childhood teachers. Their dedication and love of early childhood shines through their school, through their students, teachers, and families. Happy Times has been in business since 1968 and is one of the very first private preschools in Naperville. 51 years of high quality care has kept this neighborhood gem running strong.
“All our families mean the world to us. The neighborhood has embraced the school all these years and when we were looking to fulfill our dream of owning a preschool, Happy Times shouted family, tradition, and love. Every child that walks through our doors knows they are in a safe, loving place where they can be themselves. They are part of their own community and that is so important for a happy future of school success. We don’t have computers or tablets. We have teacher and child interactions that are meaningful and purposeful, that instill the love of learning through discovery, and hands on play. Previous students from years past, are coming to us to enroll their children into our program. They loved Happy Times as children and want the same wonderful memories for their own children. I think that is the best recommendation anyone could ask for.” Sandra Owen-Garcia.
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420 W Gartner Road
Naperville, IL
60540
Opening Hours
| Monday | 8am - 4pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 4pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 4pm |
| Friday | 8am - 4pm |