Children’s Program:

Our Vision

Building young minds, transforming young hearts, changing the world one LIFE at a time.

We Provide

Infant Care (6 weeks–12 months)

Trusting care-givers

Flexible to correspond with your child’s individual patterns

Building strong supportive relationships between caregiver and child

Young Toddler Care (12 months–24 months)

Nurturing care-givers

Consistent schedules and routines

Environment supports the child’s natural desire to explore

Older Toddler Care (24 months–36 months)

Loving care givers

Environment encourages children to become active learners

Children will explore, interact, and build lifelong skills

Pre- School (36 months–48 months)

Guiding teachers

Daily routines that promote independence, responsibility and confidence

Children will discover answers through exploration and guidance

Pre–Kindergarten (48 months–60 months)

Encouraging teachers

Children will learn through active involvement with people, materials, events, and ideas

Our program will help children become independent, responsible, and confident ready for success in school.

Active Learning Environment

Art Center

• Discover line, color, shape and texture by seeing and feeling objects.
• Experiment informally with a variety of simple media.
• Express individual thoughts and feelings through picture making, modeling, constructing and printing.
• Develop problem-solving skills.
• Experiment with art materials to understand properties.
• Experiment with art materials to understand cause and effect.
• Observe color, texture, size and shape of objects.

Let’s Pretend Center

• How it feels to be someone else.
• Problem solving.
• Respect for others’ feelings and property.
• Self-confidence, independence, self-reliance, cooperation and expressive language.

Listening Center

• Listen attentively.
• Make sense out of what is heard.
• Expand their vocabulary.
• Develop a sense of story.
• Eye/hand coordination.
• Listen to literary selections for personal enjoyment.

Social Studies Center

• About themselves.
• About their neighborhood.
• About their city.
• About their country and other countries.
• About other cultures.
• About careers.

Game and Puzzles Center

• Eye/hand coordination.
• Problem solving, shapes, colors, sizes, sorting.
• Spatial relationships, new words.
• Numbers, counting and position.

Dramatic Play

• Use a variety of words to express feelings and ideas.
• Learn social skills appropriate to group behavior.
• Explore different celebrations and customs.
• Explore sequences in basic family routines.
• Practice self-help skills.
• Participate in leadership/fellowship roles.
• Develop concept of family by practicing roles.
• Discover ways people help each other.
• Discover socially acceptable behavior and unacceptable behaviors.
• Discover cause and effect, interaction of materials and change.

Block Center

• Use vocabulary to designate quantities.
• Create, repeat, and/or extend patterns.
• Observe and follow safety rules.
• Learn mapping skills.
• Learn size and shape differentiation, relations and recognition.
• Understand gravity, stability, weight and balance.
• Think, create and implement plans.
• Discover the names of buildings and the functions of building.

Manipulative Center

• Match objects in a one-to-one correspondence.
• Demonstrate concepts of part and whole.
• Sort objects by one or more characteristics.
• Experience counting objects.
• Experience identifying and differences.
• Discover similarities and differences.
• Sequence events correctly.
• Classify objects and Compare objects.

Computer Center

• Match objects in one-to-one correspondence.
• Match letters, compare objects, count objects.
• Recognize similarities and differences.
• Match pair, sort and classify objects.
• Discover color, line, size and shape of objects.
• Combine sets.
• Identify or repeat a simple patter.
• Extend or create a simple pattern.
• Demonstrate the concept of part/whole relationship.
• Develop perceptual awareness skills.
• Know terms related to direction.
• Recognize the printout is the same as the screen.

Library Center

• Use a variety of words to express feelings and ideas.
• Dictate ideas and feelings as they are recorded.
• Retell a familiar story.
• Use oral language in a variety of situations.
• Read own stories to others.
• Relate events from personal experiences.
• Distinguish between real and make-believe.
• Respond to various forms of literature.

Music Center

• Move to rhythm, respond to directions.
• Explore musical sounds.
• Play and identify rhythm instruments.
• Acquire fundamental movement skills.
• Develop spatial and directional awareness.
• Explore difference between speaking and singing voices.
• Move to express mood/meaning of music.

Science Center

• Use sense to gain information about the environment.
• Use vocabulary to compare objects.
• Observe color, texture, size and shape of objects.
• Observe change in the environment and objects in it.
• Observe cause and effect of materials.
• Observe systems, cycles, interactions and diversity in the environment.
• Classify objects from the environment as living or nonliving.
• Make predictions.
• Use the scientific method.
• Develop curiosity about the natural world.
• Observe relationships between objects.
• Use weighting and other measurement skills to gain information.
• Observe forces such as gravity and magnetism.

Gross Motor Center

• Develop muscular strength and endurance.
• Develop flexibility and cardio respiratory endurance.
• Develop locomotor skills and non-locomotor skills.
• Manipulate bean bags, large balls, long ropes and hoops.
• Develop body awareness, spatial and directional awareness.
• Develop coordination and balance.
• Participate in cooperative games.
• Develop and practice behavior that reflects an understanding of safety.