Class Programs & Rates
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Infants (Ladybugs and Butterflies)
5 months – 21 months
We emphasize trust as the foundation for learning. A partnership between teachers and each family is created to provide loving care for each child. Our safe, healthy, and enriched environments are ready for curious exploration and creative play.
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Each infant is assigned a primary care teacher.
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Infants are grouped with other infants at similar development levels: young babies, crawling, beginning to walk, walkers
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Specially designed spaces and curriculum support their developmental progress.
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Daily learning activities include: books, art, music, manipulative toys, and outdoor time.
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Baby Signs™ and Learning Games™ are core activities which support milestones and promote early communication.
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Written daily reports are provided and parents may call or visit their children at any time.
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Caregiver to child ratio is 1:4, with additional assistance, as needed.
Toddlers (Hummingbirds)
21+ months – 28 + months
We provide for free exploration and more structured learning, with small groups and positive teachers.
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We facilitate curiosity, creativity, and child-to-child interaction.
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We include daily learning activities such as: story time, art, puzzles, manipulatives, blocks, dramatic play, and ample outdoor play.
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We focus on developing self-help skills and potty training with the goal of promoting positive self-esteem.
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Baby Signs™ and Learning Games™ are integrated into the curriculum.
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Written daily reports are provided and parents may call or visit their children at any time.
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Caregiver to child ratio is 1: 5.
Preschool and Pre-Kindergarten
2 years 4 months – 5 years 9 months
Our energetic and educational programs prepare children with the attitudes and skills necessary for school and life success. We aim to nourish each child’s creativity, self-esteem, self regulation, social/emotional interactions, cultural awareness, and to impart a love for reading and learning.
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We partner with parents and children to shape the educational experience. We plan and post weekly/monthly curriculum. "HighScope" Curriculum integrates adult-child interaction, carefully designed learning environments, and a plan-do-review process. Parents are encouraged to follow along and reinforce lessons with children at home.
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We weave stimulating curriculum into the environment, focusing on: art, science, math, pre-writing, reading, blocks, and imaginative play.
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Outdoor areas include: children’s garden, park-quality play structures, tricycle courtyard, sandbox, magnet board and other manipulatives, paint easels, reading nook.
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We offer three additional weekly enrichment programs, at no extra charge: Spanish Immersion Circle Time, Music and Gymnastics .
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We use Learning Games™ as an integrated child development assessment tool, and we conduct Parent-Teacher conferences at least twice a year.
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The Eagles Prekindergarten classroom is designed to give children the skills to be well prepared for Kindergarten. The program begins its curriculum cycle in late summer but maintains open enrollment throughout the year. Cooking and computers are also included in the curriculum.
We have excellent teacher to child ratios.
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1:6 in Owls for older 2’s
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1:8 in Redbirds for young 3’s
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1:9 in Woodpeckers for older 3’s, young 4’s. (4's move to PreK in late summer)
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1:10 in Eagles Pre-K 4 by September 2nd (follows the school year)
Accredited by the
National Academy
for the Education of
Young Children
Quality Preschools make a lasting difference for children, but listen to what happened when the State of Tennesee instituted FREE public preschool across 900 classrooms statewide, with inadequate funding! Vanderbuilt Study results, as aired on NPR, The Tennessee PreK Debate: Spinach vs. Easter Grass.