Our Programs

Cuddle Bugs

Infant Program (6 weeks to 1 year)

Infants respond to their environment through their senses. Our staff uses music, sound, and motion to stimulate the child as their focus develops and their attention grows stronger.
The teachers interact with the infant at their level; singing is encouraged as well as talking to the child to raise their interacting skills and emotional development.
Language Skills:
Age appropriate development is based on repetition, modeling, and social interacting.
Introducing Others into Baby's World:
Baby's sense of being responds to a feeling of security and how they feel at the moment. Nurturing, comforting, and consoling are important skills for teachers.
Healthy Habits:
Baby's coordination and muscular development depend on movement and exercise. Appropriate food items are necessary for proper nutrition needs and growth.
Music:
Surrounding the infant with appropriate musical sounds, for example, Mozart and Vivaldi, among others, contributes to mood enhancement and cognitive development.
Color and Movement:
Bright colored toys with gentle moving parts attract the infant's attention, for example, mobiles, incline/decline motion toys.

Tender Time

Toddler Program (1 to 2 years)

Toddlers are transitioning from the infant stage. Their large and small muscles are developing as they learn through play, i.e. pulling toys, coloring with crayons, turning book pages, etc. Tactile impressions are developed through their sense of touch and their senses are developed through creative measures.
Language and the Printed Word:
Speech skills, building vocabulary, and helping your child recognize that the printed word has meaning through reading recognition.
Understanding Numbers:
Recognizing the value assignment to coin-counting as a means of understanding quality i.e. more, less.
My Family, My School:
Enriching socialization skills and learning about others in relationships.
Healthy Habits:
Teaching that food and mood are related, choices, about healthy living.
Music, Song, and Dance:
Music movements in dance and singing for emotional enrichment.
Finger Painting:
Developing motor skills through artistic mediums as well as color recognition, shape, and harmony.

Caterpillars

Three years

Three year olds thrive on routine and repetition. Consistency in the child's daily life allows the courage to experiment and try new skills. A safe and secure environment can widen the child's boundaries so they are more receptive to new concepts of learning.
Trust, being receptive to authority, and socialization are goals for the younger students at our school.
Language and the Printed Word:
As teachers read, they evaluate comprehension through questions about the story line.
Understanding Numbers:
Introducing coins, dance, and rhythm counting and color and shape recognition, addition, subtraction concepts.
My Family, My School:
Things I can do-pouring milk, setting the table, giving napkins. Being a helper at home and school.
Health Habits:
Washing my hands, cleaning my spot, exercising, and making good food choices.
Music: Song and Dance
Singing together, dancing free style.
Finger Paints:
Artistic accomplishment.
Beginning Noun-Recognition: Food, names, home, school.

Butterflies

Four year old program

Four year olds thrive, grow, and develop at this stage of development. Their muscular activity increases as muscle tone develops. This age responds to new interests, which require more advanced curriculum. Life skills regarding socialization, manners, trust issues, and relationships are improving as is their concept of time.
Basic computer skills are introduced at this level of education which enables letter recognition, knowledge of the printed word, and dexterity.
Language and the Printed Word:
The younger students' vocabulary is rapidly increasing. The three year old is using an average of 200 to 300 words and is able to use words to solve problems and learn concepts. The four year old has a vocabulary that on the average consists of 1000 words, with a sentence structure of about 8 words.
Understanding Numbers:
Shopping with family members can help the younger student understand the concept of numbers and money, addition and subtraction in its simplest form. Plus and take-away are examined with great scrutiny at this age.
My Family, My School:
Life skills, learning to live in a family group, and adjusting to the school environment are transitions that the younger student faces. Making decisions is a skill the child will learn while developing trust in his or her judgment. This age will learn how to "talk out" problems with a trusted adult.
Healthy Habits:
Long muscle development, running, jumping, and dancing can be expected with this age group. The concept of friendship develops as "self" is able to step aside to consider another personality.
Music, Song, and Dance:
Three and four year olds begin to feel the rhythm present in their world. Counting beats to a song or to a dance encourages movement in sync to the rhythm. The exposure to another way for them to experience music eventually will lead the students to the second level of musical appreciation.

Four Years and Up

Finger Paints and Art:
Water colors, crayons, poster paints, tracing, and cutting out shapes are other mediums for the child to experience artistic expression.
Other Languages:
General words already are a part of the 3 to 4 year old's vocabulary, for example, taco, enchilada, burrito, and many menu items are an easy way to introduce another language, including numbers. Singing songs in Spanish and routinely naming items in the classroom is a good place to begin another language introduction.
My Community:
Exploring an enlarged social world, home, school, friends' houses, park, church, etc. New responsibilities include picking up after oneself and using manners.

School Aged 5-12

Before and after school program for local school districts MISD and FISD with school pick up and drop off. Children also participate in field trips.

Availability for:

• School Holidays
• Summer Camp
• Winter Camp
• Spring Bash