About Discoverers Learning Academy
We are a family oriented preschool facility providing quality early childhood education for children ages 1 to 5 years old.
We utilize a nationally recognized creative curriculum, based on high-quality early childhood educational standards. This curriculum model allows teachers to develop the whole child and individualized learning.
The framework helps meet the children’s social, emotional, physical, cognitive and language developmental needs.
Learning takes place with activities that integrate appropriate skills, concepts and knowledge in math, literacy, science, social studies, arts and technology.
At Discoverers Learning Academy we also enhance the curriculum providing even more learning experiences with engaging activities in our Daycare.
The teaching of fundamental values are part of our curriculum using the Character Development Program as well as the interest and the love for our environment and community.
The Character Development program will help children develop fundamental values, this includes how they interact with others and how conduct themselves. They will learn concepts like friendship, generosity, responsibility, honesty, respect, which are the heart of our culture of Discoverers Learning Academy
Every month, we use a concept and is taught as a part of our lesson’s plans and at play. We encourage the parents to participate at home modeling for children the importance of social responsibility and giving others.
Our Programs
Over time, we’ve designed and adapted programs to meet the high standards of today’s world of education. By providing a supportive environment, we make sure each child receives exactly what they need.
Age 1 (Explorers)
Our caring staff ensures your child is learning and growing each day while you are at work. Your little one is beginning to talk, walk and explore on their own.
Our classroom is specially arranged with everything at their age level and the activities are carefully planned to encourage their development and to work on their social skills so they can begin to learn how to get along with others and share. We continue to work with your child to expand their vocabulary further so they can communicate effectively even though their talking skills are just developing.
Our trained staff continues to evaluate your child's growth and development and helping them keep on task. We have a lesson plan set each month to help your child develop language, math, thinking, fine and gross motor skills through play .
Our plan is to help your child gain self-esteem and build a foundation for learning in the years to follow, also learning how to relates with others, sharing and playing, respecting others. We will be working on their movements providing activities to develop their fine and gross motor skills for running, climbing, pulling, pushing, hopping, getting balance of their bodies also to scribbles, turning over containers and pages from a book.
In the language and cognitive areas we will work with them recognizing names of familiar objects, body parts, people, new vocabulary words each week, uses of short sentences with 3 words, follow simple instructions, and the love for reading with a lot of literacy activities.
We start with the basic of colors, numbers, shapes, Letters sounds using flash cards, stories, sorting and matching games.
Age 2 (Adventurers)
Our caring staff ensures your child is learning and growing each day while you are at work. We provide our parents a weekly sheet letting them know how their toddler did that week, including lunch time and naptime. Your growing child is learning so much about the world around them, and is beginning to ask lots of questions, and do things on his own, like becoming more independent. This is why our classroom continues to encourage their development in all the following areas :
Physical: Helping them to develop their fine and gross motor skills though play with our arts & sports
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Cognitive: Learning basic of shapes, counting, numbers, colors, beginning to sort and match .
Language: We continue to work with your child in learning ASL Sign Language), expanding their vocabulary further so they can communicate effectively along with their speech. Reading a lot, creating stories , recognizing letter sounds .
Social-emotional: Helping to increase independence, to understand and follow rules, sharing with others, work in groups.
Our trained staff continues to evaluate your child's growth and development helping them keep on task. We have a lesson plan set with a different theme each week and a monthly character development theme to help your child develop all the skills they need as a whole individual.
We continue building on the foundation they developed early on to keep their minds learning and exploring every day.
Age 3 (Navigators)
Our Early Childhood professional and caring staff ensure your child is continuing to learn and develop. At this age children are very active, able to communicate and express themselves more clearly, now their world will be dominated by fantasy and vivid imagination.
Our classroom continues to promotes their development and their social skills , help them to take turns in games and understanding the concept of “mine “and “his/ hers” through a setting full of materials and age appropriate activities, encouraging them to discover and find solutions, learning "hands on" sorting , matching, patterns, learning shapes colors and numbers understanding pre-math and pre-reading concepts , telling stories, enriching their vocabulary, learning letters and sounds in a friendly and relax environment.
We had carefully design our lesson’s plans with different themes each week which also include character development and environmental education activities for each month . We send monthly newsletters home letting mommy and daddy know what theme and skills their child will be working on, so they can also reinforce them at home.
We continue to work with your child in expanding their vocabulary further so they can communicate effectively along with their speech. We continue to evaluate your child's growth and development helping them keep on task. We continue building on the foundation they developed early on to keep their minds learning and exploring everyday.
Age 4-5 (Discoverers)
We continue to build on your child's pre-school foundation with our Early Pre-Kindergarten program, known as the "Discoverers." The staff works with your child to help them get ready for a school environment. In our program we concentrate on higher learning abilities and getting your child ready for their academic career. Our teachers carefully prepare lesson plans to help your child develop their full potential trough a variety of activities and materials in all the developmental areas:
Cognitive & Math: Sorting and matching by different categories, reinforcing shapes, getting the concept of numbers and recognizing them, counting, doing patterns, following 3 part commands, using opposites, doing sequences.
Language: Lots of reading, increasing their vocabulary words, thinking maps, recognizing letters and sounds, using rhyming, asking questions, starting the process for writing.
Fine & Gross Motor: Through playing with different materials, like play dough clay, scissors, drawing, lots of arts and crafts, beads, puzzles, manipulative toys, sand and water; we help to develop the eye-hand coordination they need to start writing and through our sports lessons we help develop their gross motor skills.
Social-emotional : Helping them to self-control their emotions, take turns, respects differences in others, be part of the group with responsibilities, to be more independent and helpful . We use the monthly Character Development themes to enhance their social skills.
We provide the parents with monthly newsletters , letting mommy and daddy know what their child will be exploring and learning every month so parents can get involved and reinforce the skills at home. We continue to work with your child in expanding their vocabulary further so they can communicate effectively along with their speech.
We continue to evaluate your child's growth and development making sure your child is on task at their age level. We continue building on the foundation of the education preparing them for VPK and discover their