Our Programs
We offer an enriched and balanced approach to learning that is infused with academics. Our active learning approach is the most appropriate and inherent level of learning for children and if we’re honest, adults as well. Trained teachers offer children learning activities that pique their interests and curiosity, and then challenge them to become ‘thinking learners.’ Teachers help stretch your child’s mind by demonstrating, asking questions, encouraging and guiding to explore, discover and learn how things work by taking in information through all their senses. At the same time, teachers skillfully incorporate meaningful academics such as counting, numerals, letters, writing, quality literature and challenging questions. Children need to experience information and see how it applies to their world for it to make sense and become concrete in their thinking. Memorization alone is not enough.
Active learning to us means a child participating in the classroom day and making strides to understand the world around him/her. We develop curriculum that stimulates student’s interests, creating the “glue” that joins together focus and cognitive motivation. Our classroom curriculum moves from simple activities to more complex as the year progresses, respecting the development of each individual child. Children will experience everything from painting, art collage, blocks, Legos, many kinds of manipulatives, water-bubbles-sand, cooking, weaving and sewing, book-making, story writing and story-telling, wood-working, cooking, estimating and math concepts, dinosaurs and volcanoes, researching insects, spiders, or rain forest animals, hatching frogs, butterflies or lady bugs. It’s a learning experience we hope they will never forget. The curriculum fits the child, not the child to the curriculum.
Another equally important aspect of Child Priority is our focus on helping children to communicate, problem-solve, and effectively and happily socialize. Teachers give unequaled personal attention, care and guidance to help your child respond to his/her feelings. We see it as building steppingstones to help children gain positive tools toward self-esteem, become socially comfortable and feel safe and secure in a school environment.
