Toddlers Town (18 months-24 months) Small Steps, Big Discoveries
Toddlers are amazing explorers who are excited to learn about the world around them. In our Toddlers Town classroom, your child will begin an amazing journey of discovery as they learn about colors, shapes, and sizes. With the support of our dedicated and committed teachers your child’s vocabulary will grow each day, they will work on their fine and gross motor skills and gain the confidence to move and explore freely. We focus on fostering self-sufficiency, language development, and early socialization skills. Our goal is helping your child grow while encouraging their natural creativity and curiosity.
Students Will Enjoy:
- A Structured daily routine with classroom centers and circle time.
- Fun activities to learn letters and numbers.
- Opportunities to explore cause and effect.
- Outdoor/indoor play to help build balance and coordination.
Explorer's Avenue (Preschoolers 2-3 years) Curious minds at work: Exploring, Learning, Growing.
Our Explorer’s Avenue classroom is a caring environment that offers our two- and three-year-olds the space needed to explore, learn, and grow. Our teachers are dedicated and committed in focusing on building their independence and confidence as they grow. Your child will learn new words, explore shapes, sort colors, and make art with many textures and materials.
Students Will Enjoy:
- Sensory activities.
- Chances to ask and answer “who,” “what,” “where,” “why,” and “yes/no” questions.
- Music games that encourage their self-expression.
- Story time to build vocabulary and understanding.
- Math lessons on using graphs and number lines.
- Art projects to inspire imagination.
- Science experiments to make predictions, test ideas, and explore how things work.
Junior Kinder Lane (Pre-K 4-5 years old) Preparing for Kindergarten Success
The Junior Kinder Lane class will expose your child to various learning centers where they will be challenged physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively. Children will work individually and in groups to promote socialization. Children will learn through appropriate play-based activities. They are free to observe, discover, and interact with materials at their developmental levels. Some of the activities include dramatic play, block building and creative arts with other children, role playing, learning to deal with conflict, beginning to cut, paste and enhance fine motor development. Math becomes a key learning area, and children will learn by grouping objects into categories, matching, and classifying, basic introduction of size and weights and problem solving.
Students Will Enjoy:
- A more structured environment using hands on learning experiences which will help your child prepare for kindergarten.
- Learning centers with various activities revolving around the monthly theme and introduce them to math, language, reading, social and physical skills.
- Children will continue to grow in using their fine motor skills through activities such as drawing and cutting.
- Students will be introduced to geography, engage in science activities, observe life cycles, as well as problem solve with teachers and classmates.
- Enhancing their physical development through group activities such as obstacle courses, music and movement and various other activities.
before and after school (5-12 years old)
Our before and after school program is for school age children between the ages of 5 years old and 12 years old and focuses on the below areas.
Inquisitive Minds
Science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) are incorporated in building projects and experiments. Our students are encouraged to share ideas, ask questions, and make predictions.
Team building through play
Our students will engage in both indoor/outdoor play activities that foster teamwork, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills while building strength and endurance.
Creativity Through Arts/Crafts
Our students will have fun experiences being creative while learning to express themselves through arts and crafts. We utilize arts and crafts as a developmental tool to enhance creativity, cognitive growth, motor skills, emotional intelligence, social competence, and cultural understanding.
Homework
Our students are provided a quite area to complete homework, read books, or work on small group projects for school assignments.
Summer Camp Start each day with a new experience by joining us for an adventurous School Age Summer Camp packed with fun Monday thru Friday.
If your child is interested in hands-on activities, Science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM) projects, sports and games this is the place for them.
Register now via email at: info@steppingstoneslearningacademy.net or by calling 469 553-9174.