Curriculum

At Valley Child Care and Learning Centers, we understand the importance of appropriate early education programs and the role of early childhood learning in the success of children. Our 10 early childhood learning centers each offer a variety of developmentally appropriate educational programs to help prepare your child for the exciting challenges of kindergarten, first grade and beyond.

Infants
Healthy infant development and effective infant education require care that is warm and responsive.  We enrich your baby's environment with soft toys, colorful books and music.

Toddlers
Toddlers are beginning to think through their actions, solve problems and understand language.  Toddler learning thrives on new experiences, so we provide a safe, nurturing environment that allows each child to develop naturally, individually and happily.  Valley Learning Centers provide daily progress reports that include information on care routines like eating, napping and diapering.

Twos
Your two-year-old is ready to explore and discover the world around him or her.  We spark your two-year-old's sense of discovery by providing a wide variety of educational toys, materials and learning activities. A fun, safe and enriching environment filled with self-directed activities will give your child the independence he or she is so eager to enjoy, and helps prepare your child to make the transition into preschool.  Because your two-year old is learning words so quickly and beginning to express thoughts, we use activities like reading books aloud, nursery rhymes and songs to expand your child's language skills.

Preschool
At Valley Learning Centers, we realize that choosing the right preschool with a strong preschool curriculum is an important decision for your child’s future. We want you to feel certain that you’ve chosen a preschool that focuses on learning, yet appreciates the significance of fun and making friends. Our preschool learning activities encourage your child's development without encouraging him or her growing up too fast! Our curriculum offers preschool math and language practice, music activities for children and much more. We know that you want your child to be cared for by teachers who keep him or her feeling safe and loved, while nurturing his or her individual personality and unique abilities. At Valley Learning Centers, your child will be given this dedicated care!

Learning Centers
The preschool classroom itself is also an invaluable tool to promote child education and development. Our classrooms are carefully designed to delight, intrigue and inspire young learners. Each classroom space is divided into Learning Centers such as Language and Circle Time, Blocks and Creativity and Art. Each center invites your child to marvel at and explore the wonders of the world around him. No matter which area captures your child's interest on a particular day, he or she will be developing important skills. Learning Centers include:

• Circle Time
  This is where your child starts the day through meaningful experiences like storytelling, singing songs, show-and-tell and matching games. Children learn to express their ideas, associate the written word with the spoken word and discover their world independently.
• Art
  Art is a hands-on activity for your child. Children experience art through the freedom of touching, feeling, pulling, twisting, tearing, pasting, bending, scraping, cutting, pounding, shaping and so much more. Preschoolers are developing a feel for forms, balance, line, color, and shape as well as gaining practice in problem solving. They are learning about various relationships, sharpening their powers of observation, beginning the process of logical thinking, and developing motor skills.  
•  Music
  Music activities for children allow them to use their entire bodies for learning and exploring their surroundings.  Young children build awareness through music by listening to the many kinds of sounds, and they experience the release and freedom of body movement. Children will be encouraged to test their vocal and kinesthetic abilities and to have fun while they are experimenting.  Valley Learning Centers emphasizes the enjoyment of participation!
•  Blocks
  This is a center where children can build preschool math skills by stacking and counting blocks and learning the concepts of number, measurement, size and weight. Blocks also build hand- eye coordination, control of young wrists, hands and fingers, and problem-solving skills.
•  Dramatic Play
  We have dress-up clothes, props and child-sized furniture that invite children to make believe.  They can try careers, learn to share, make friends and express different emotions.  Children also learn life skills like turning knobs on and off or buttoning and zipping clothes.
• Math
  Math is a way of finding things out and solving problems. With our preschool math activities, children learn sorting and counting skills, patterning and how to put materials in order. Through manipulating materials, children also begin to understand basic concepts such as big/little, large/small and same/different.
• Science
  Children have the opportunity to participate in hands-on, real-life activities that encourage a sense of discovery. Our science activities include interacting with living things, using magnets and magnifiers and playing at sand and water tables.

As your child moves from center to center, his or her preschool teacher will act as a guide who will listen to ideas, applaud progress and motivate your child to envision new ideas and think in new ways.

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