#NAEYC accredited Preschool. Premier Transitional Kindergarten

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Autumn Creek Learning Center has been formed to provide early childhood education in a home like environment that will be conducive to a child's total growth and development. We are NAEYC Accredited for the last 20 years and we serve chlidren 2 years to School age 12 years old. We are open Monday through Friday from 7:00 am to 6:00pm. Lunch and snacks are provided included in the tuition. A preschool Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), We offer developmentally appropriate programs which teach cognition, literacy, math, science, creative arts, physical skills (fine and gross motor), and social skills for students age 2 through 6 years old. We offer a combination of teacher directed learning activities and child centered learning centers. Our curriculum is based on research in Early Childhood Education that young children learn through active manipulation of the environment and concrete experiences which contribute to concept development. The curriculum encourages children to be actively involved in the learning process, to experience a variety of developmentally appropriate activities and materials.

Our 2 year old classroom, The Little Bears, offers a 1:6 teacher to child ratio. Our 3-5 year old classrooms, The Koala Bears (3yr), The Honey Bears (4 yr), or The Grizzly Bears (4.5-5.5yr), offers a 1:8 teacher to child ratio as well as school age transportation and afterschool care.

While music, singing and movement activities are included in our daily curriculum at circle times, an additional music class is included every Tuesday, taught by Miss Jan who has been teaching in our community for many years and shares instruments and songs from around the world with your child. Foreign Language is also included on Fridays, taught by our classroom teachers who are fluent in these additional languages and cultures (Spanish, Cantonese, Sign Language and Hindi). Every Wednesday, we offer a STEM class in each classroom and every Thursday, we offer mindfulness/yoga .All of this plus your child's meals, provided by our full time cook on staff, are all included in tuition. Breakfast is served upon request between the hours of 7am-8am, a 9 am snack, 12 o'clock lunch, and a 3 pm snack will be provided. Dance, Soccer and Tumbling are offered in the mornings for an additional cost.

We offer many schedule options to help meet your families wants and needs. We do also offer a wonderful Summer Program which includes all of our daily curriculum activities as noted above, plus we have a few special activity days where we bring in special vendors for music shows, science activities, animal shows or magicians for mystery and wonder, and more. Also check out our facebook page to see what we have going on currently around the school.