DESERT ACRES LEARNING
DESERT ACRES LEARNING
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Hello!
This is where we started with our own children teaching them and loving them the moment they were born. We knew that families look for small programs for their young ones to thrive and learn. We had to think of where our love for teaching started and where it was headed. We couldn't leave out a community of other families who search for community, friends, and learning in one place.
We welcome 3yr olds+ for the school year!
Michaela Turner (Mrs. Link)
PreK Instructor
Educational play based learning
Educational play based learning
In the PreK classroom, we are passionate about providing a safe, nurturing, and fun environment where your little ones can explore, learn, and grow. We look forward to being a part of your family's journey and helping your children thrive.
Our multi-age environment allows younger children to learn from older peers while giving older children opportunities to develop leadership skills. By combining Montessori principles with STEAM-focused exploration, we create a dynamic learning space where children can build problem-solving skills, gain confidence, and develop a strong foundation for future success.
We help children develop Life Skills, Gross motor skills, Fine motor skills, social relationships, Science, Nature exploration, Speech communication, Logic & Reasoning, and more.
We focus on character building with the fruits of the Spirit and bible stories showing children the love of Christ.
We prioritize fostering independence, giving each child the tools and encouragement they need to thrive. With smaller class sizes, we ensure personalized attention, creating a close-knit community where every child feels valued.
What curriculum do you use?
What curriculum do you use?
We have a variety of materials we use for learning that we have gathered from curriculums, web pages and other resources, as we know not one size fits all. If we notice your child learns one way and another child prefers another, we will do our best to blend both together so that each child can excel in every way. We do not want to try and mold children into the exact same models, we encourage individuality, and their creative thinking! We believe each child has something great to bring to the world and we do not want to discourage them from being themselves. (This does not mean, Kayla does not do math because she doesn't want to, we will work with her likes, and find a way she enjoys learning math, and will ask for more!)
How will the kids learn?
How will the kids learn?
Keeping kids engaged by incorporating play and learn in each lesson. This could be dancing to a song about different animals, painting the letters of the alphabet, making a bubbly mess in science, but still keep some basic lessons like handwriting, reading, simple math with flashcards. What we do different than allot of others is, lunch time isn't just eating, the kids get to help make their meals each day! This helps put them with real life skills and routines of preparing healthy meals they they can enjoy even more because THEY made it! They are encouraged to help be apart of the gathering supplies, cooking, and cleaning up. Soon your little ones will be asking to help at home too!
Skills
Skills
Children construct knowledge as they play and explore.
Children construct knowledge as they play and explore.
Social-Emotional Development: Social and emotional development refers to a child’s ability to identify feelings, self-regulate and build relationships.
Physical Development: Physical development refers to a child’s gross and fine motor skills. Children require adequate nutrition, fitness and personal care to support healthy growth and motor development.
Language & Literacy Development: Language and literacy skills refer to a child’s ability to communicate and connect with others through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Math and Reasoning: Math and reasoning skills include a child’s ability to count, understand number sense, manipulate objects in space, create patterns, sort, compare and measure.
Social Studies: Social Studies skills refer to children’s ability to understand themselves in relation to the surrounding community and world. It includes exploration of roles, responsibilities and cultural traditions.
Science: Science skills include a child’s ability to inquire, predict and evaluate observations. They support a child’s ability to explore everyday life, physical properties and to make sense of concepts such as weather, natural habitats and technology.
Creative Arts: Creative arts are activities that actively engage children’s imagination through music, dance, visual arts, and dramatic play. Creative art activities are deliberately open-ended and work to foster creativity, divergent thinking, and imagination.
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