ELC CLASSROOMS

At CCA’s Early Learning Center, we are committed to the health, safety and education of our students. Our dedicated teachers enjoy loving on and taking care of all the children entrusted to their care.
 
Please note classroom placement is determined by the child’s age. A child’s birthday must be on or before September 1st to enter each age group class. (Example: A child must be two years old on September 1st to enter the 2’s Class.)
 

INFANTS

 
The first year of life will influence children’s success for many years after. Our teachers provide a safe, loving and nurturing environment, while building the foundation for learning. This class works with babies on:
  • Forming and maintaining a secure attachment to parents and caregivers.
  • Using their senses to investigate the world around them.
  • Making simple sounds and movements.
  • Rolling, crawling and pulling up to explore.
  • Developing fine motor skills using hand movements to hold and manipulate objects.
 
 

TRANSITION I

 
Our Transition classes provide the gentle support and encouragement needed to start exploring the world around them more independently.
 
The Transition I class is for children who are beginning to crawl, crawling independently, pulling up and beginning to walk. In this class, your child uses all 5 senses to learn skills such as:
 
  • Learning context for people, places and experiences.
  • Using fine and gross motor movement to increase body control and awareness.
  • Building independence.
  • Building up endurance when crawling or practicing walking.
 
 

TRANSITION II

 
The Transition II class is typically for children who turn one (1) after September 1st. These students are on the brink of walking or walking independently. They will be eating solid foods and learning to drink or drinking independently from sippy cups in this class.
 
In the Transition II classroom, teachers focus on building skills such as:
 
  • Following simple one step directions.
  • Learning to sit in a chair at the table.
  • Eating finger foods.
  • Drinking from a sippy cup.
  • Expressing early language, creativity nd emotions in positive ways.
 
 

TODDLERS (12-24 MONTHS)

 
Children in the one-year-old classroom develop their independence through play and fun learning encounters, while building valuable skills needed to interact with the world around them. Teachers in this class guide students through exploration while helping to establish crucial social-emotional skills.
 
Using teacher-lead activities along with Experience Early Learning curriculum, these students learn skills such as:
 
  • Singing and reciting songs and rhymes.
  • Participating in simple, short, back and forth conversational exchanges.
  • Demonstrating an understanding of simple one and two step directions.
  • Developing appropriate social and emotional responses to what’s happening in their environment.
  • Controlling their body movements during play and other tasks.
 

TODDLERS (2 YR OLDS)

 
As two-year-olds gain more independence, they use this new skill to in learning to understand the world around them. The teachers in this classroom provide a safe environment where students can explore and stretch their talents, while building self-confidence.
 
With the use of Experience Early Learning curriculum along with teacher-lead activities, children in this class learn skills such as:
 
  • Grasping tools and utensils with intention.
  • Making more precise lines or scribbles.
  • Collaborating with teachers or classmates when solving problems.
  • Adopting a new solution and applying it.
  • Working on life skills like dressing and potty training.
  • Sharing and empathy for others.
  • Attempting to accomplish routine tasks independently.
 
 

PRESCHOOL (3 YR OLDS)

 
At the age of three, a child’s world is expanding daily. They are developing special friendships, learning new words and forming new ideas every day. Through purposeful play, teacher/student-lead activities and Experience Early Learning curriculum, your child is encouraged to think in new and different ways.
 
This class works with children to learn skills like:
 
  • Verbally counting to ten.
  • Counting a group of specific items.
  • Building vocabulary and expanding language skills by using words to describe familiar people, animals, objects and situations.
  • Engaging in imaginative play.
  • Understanding taking turns, developing the capacity to wait and communicating when it’s their turn.
  • Playing cooperatively with or near a small group of children and forming unique, authentic friendships with classmates.
  • Learning to identify and regulate various emotions.
 
 

PRE-K 4

 
In Pre-Kindergarten, we incorporate structure and routines to help students develop school behaviors that not only prepare them for Kindergarten but support a positive learning environment. Students are exposed to lots of fun opportunities for learning and innovation daily.
 
This class uses The Alphabet Curriculum and Pre-K Math curriculum along with teacher/student-lead activities to build skills such as:
 
  • Thoughtfully developing strategies for performing and finishing tasks.
  • Classifying objects by color, size or shape and reclassifying by a particular characteristic.
  • Using math concepts such as counting from 10 to 20 accurately.
  • Remaining focused on a task even when other activities are going on around them.
  • Building fine motor skills in preparation for writing.
  • Exploring writing skills.
  • Identifying sounds and other concepts of phonics.
  • Offering to share materials with classmates without encouragement or prompting from an adult.