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Our Programs
The most important goal of our early childhood curriculum is to help children become enthusiastic learners. This means encouraging children to be active and creative explorers who are not afraid to try out their ideas and to think their own thoughts. Our goal is to help children become independent, self- confident, inquisitive learners. We're teaching them how to learn, not just in the centerl, but all through their lives. We're allowing them to learn at their own pace and in the ways that are best for them. We're giving them good habits and attitudes, particularly a positive sense of themselves, which will make a difference throughout their lives.
Infants / Toddlers
6 weeks - 23 months
Our Infant care curriculum is focused on responsive care while incorporating objectives that enable teachers to focus on what matters most for very young children. In the very early years, children explore the world around them by using all their senses (touching, tasting, listening, smelling, and looking). In using real materials such as blocks and trying out their ideas, children learn about sizes, shapes, and colors and they notice relationships between things.
Our toddler care program focuses on building relationships, responsive care, and routines and experiences for toddlers. The curriculum introduces a developmental continuum to help teachers observe children and use what they learn to be responsive to the children's needs and interests. It addresses language and literacy, math, and science for exploring and developing emerging skills.
Preschool
2 years - 3 years
Teachers incorporate the 38 researched based objectives to understand developmentally appropriate practice and how to create daily routines and meaningful experiences. Our curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development:
Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group.
Emotional: To help children experience pride and self- confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.
Cognitive: To help children become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings. Physical: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.
Our curriculum balances teacher‐planned and child‐initiated learning, emphasizing responsiveness to children's strengths, interests, needs, and learning styles. Nationally known for being forward‐thinking, comprehensive, and rigorously researched, the curriculum allows our teachers to plan and implement content‐rich, developmentally appropriate programs that support active learning and promote children's progress in all developmental areas.
Literacy-
Our daily lesson plans encompass the six essential aspects of teaching literacy: (1) Talking, Singing, & Playing with language (2) Reading Aloud (3) Storytelling (4) Story Retelling (5) Writing (6) Meaningful Play Conducting Long-term studies
Mathematics–
Our teachers build upon the children’s interests to promote mathematics learning. The teachers fully understand the mathematical concepts and skills they will be teaching and are guided on how purposefully to incorporate mathematics learning into daily classroom routines.
Pre-Kindergarten
4 years
Social and Emotional Development –
Children choose and become involved in one activity out of several options
Children are encouraged to identify and label their feelings
Children take on pretend roles and situations in the classroom
Children are guided in finding multiple uses for classroom objects
The Arts –
Children are given time to dance to music of various cultures
Children are encouraged to use their imaginations in drawing shapes, letters, and other symbols
Children retell stories they have heard and act out main events of familiar stories
Physical Health and Development –
Children hold markers, crayons, and other objects using fine motor skills to make specific strokes or figures
Children are given pathways and obstacles to petal and steer around on tricycles on the outdoor playground
Children are given reminders about self-help skills, such as clean-up time and hand-washing
children create and are taught to follow classroom rules, with reminders
Mathematics –
Teachers initiate discussions of similarities and differences
Children are given tasks to sort objects by size, shape or color
Teachers and children discuss time concepts such as past, present, or future events
Children use comparative words to describe number, size, shape, weight, and color
Science –
Children are encouraged to wonder “what will happen if” and test possibilities demonstrating cause and effect
Children are given time to observe and examine objects and notice details and attributes
Before & After Care
5 years - 12 years
In our Before and After Care program, we insure that your child is continuing to engage in the learning experiences from their day school program. Children come in from school, are served afternoon snack, then immediately began working on homework for a designated amount of time. Teachers are there to assist and guide. Once homework time is over, children have the chance to engage in meaningful free time of their choice including playing games, reading, writing, or helping their peers. In addition, when school is out, we are open. For spring break and winter break, we plan a specific weekly curriculum for the school agers.
