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This class provides an environment enriched with age appropriate academic curriculum that will begin to develop pre-writing and reading skills as well as mathematic concepts. Class components include:

• Circle time: calendar, days of the week, months of the year, and story time.
• Monthly themes with academic encouragement including colors, shapes, letters, numbers, and writing stroke.
• Beginning skills of recognizing letters and their name in print, and identify sounds in the environment and in speech.
• Beginning number recognition, sorting, and 1-to-1 correspondence along with other math skills.
• Creative art explorations with different textures and tools.
• Encouragement in self-help skills such as dressing, eating, verbal expression, manners, and eye-hand coordination.
• Everyday projects both indoor and outdoors.
• Music class
• Physical Education
• Dancing class

This class has an emphasis on skills preparing a child for Kindergarten. This class is a dual program, the children are exposed to both English and Spanish languages. Activities and academics are integrated throughout the classroom with a hands-on, developmentally age-appropriate technique.

• Circle time includes calendar, days of the week, months of the year, counting skills, alphabet practice, phonics, and story time.
• Recognition and writing of their full name, letters of the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase).
• English and Spanish beginning sound and first words and numbers.
• Kindergarten Sight Words first 120 words list.
• Recall and retell event sequences using rhyming words and book awareness.
• Math skills consisting of sorting, patterning, sequencing, positional words, 1-to-1 correspondence, comparisons, geometry and graphing.
• Science and Social Studies development through community, cultures, friends and family, gardening, life cycle, senses, weather, experiments, cause and effect, and observations.
• Daily them projects.
• Music class
• Physical Education
• Dancing class

This class has an emphasis on skills preparing a child for Kindergarten. Activities and academics are integrated throughout the classroom with a hands-on, developmentally age-appropriate technique. Class components include:

• Circle time includes calendar, days of the week, month of the year, and story time.
• Monthly themes with academic encouragement including colors, shapes, letters, numbers, counting and reading.
• Recognition and writing of their name, letters of the alphabet (uppercase and lowercase), and numbers.
• Recall and retell event sequence using rhyming words and book awareness.
• Math skills consisting of sorting, patterning, sequencing, positional words, 1-to-1 correspondence, comparisons, and graphing.
• Science and Social Studies development through community, cultures, friends and family, gardening, life cycle, senses, weather, experiments, cause and effect, and observations.
• Creative art exploration with different textures and mediums.
• Ability to follow 2-3 step directions and produce a recognizable creation.
• Daily theme projects.

Our toddler class provides a great opportunity for children to have their first school experience in a setting with a small, safe, and nurturing environment. Each child can develop social and emotional skills that begin to build the foundation for lifelong learners. Class components include:

• Circle time: calendar, days of the week, finger plays, and story time.– Monthly themes with academic encouragement including colors, shapes, letters, numbers, and writing stroke.
• Both indoor & outdoor explorations.
• Toilet training (when the child is ready).
• Music class.
• Physical Education.
• Dancing class.

This nurturing environment provides the structure that allows the pre-toddlers to grow and learn while feeling safe and comfortable. Children are given daily opportunities to explore and learn through age appropriate toys and projects. The activities in this class are developed to create learning experiences and social experiences through play, projects, and activities.

Our Early Stimulation Program is a set technique, and science-based activities applied with the aim of optimizing their cognitive, physical, emotional and social development effectively. When we stimulate our infants we are presenting different opportunities to explore, develop skills and abilities in a natural way.