Programs

Infants & Toddlers

Age Range:

6 weeks - 2 years

Areas of Learning: Language

Social-Emotional Development

Gross and Fine Motor Skills

Warm, Nurturing Environment

Infants and toddlers learn best when they experience warm, nurturing care and one-on-one attention in a loving environment. We provide secure surroundings, safe equipment, and playthings that interest and engage infants and toddlers. We also support their individual development with a rich variety of activities.

Our Infant and Toddler classrooms are continually rearranged to provide new challenges and inspire new interests. Teachers adjust areas of play by changing the layout of the room and by moving infants from one position or area to another. Objects in the room are also rotated to stimulate and challenge, which all contributes to environment where movement and playfulness are encouraged.

The First Steps of Developing the Whole Child

The first months and years of a child’s life are critical to their overall development. In our infant and young toddler classrooms, learning experiences are embedded into daily activities such as feeding, diapering, nurturing, story time, music enrichment, and tummy time. Our curriculum takes a Whole Child approach to early childhood education and focuses on 4 developmental domains:

· Cognitive

· Language

· Gross and fine motor

· Social – Emotional development

Communication Between Staff and Parents

Uptown Children’s Academy believes in partnering with families in the care and education of their children. As you’re dropping your child off, please let us know when something has been upsetting them. Our teachers can better care for your child knowing how their prior evening and morning was. We want to know when your child hasn’t been feeling well, when they’ve slept poorly, or if they’ve had an upsetting morning so that we can provide the care your child needs that day.

You’ll receive updates from our teachers via Brightwheel, a mobile app where each child has a secure personal online profile that is updated daily, even hourly. This will allow you to better communicate and connect with your child’s teachers.

Two-Year-Olds

Age Range:

24 - 36 months

Areas of Learning:

“Play and Learn” Program

Music

Programs for 2-Year-Olds

Our two-year-old “Play and Learn” program is designed to accommodate the traits and needs of a child who is growing towards independence. Our program encourages exploration, self-help, and language development through stories, dramatic play, music, and games.

Our classroom teachers also teach and engage in play using music on a daily basis.

Potty Training

Attaining potty training skills is a highlight to a child at this stage of development. Our teachers will work in partnership with you to recognize signs for achieving readiness of this goal, and to help children master this important step on the road to independence.

Our Classrooms

Our classrooms are set up in a series of centers, and there’s a heavy emphasis on choice. The children have many opportunities to select their activities and the materials they’ll be working with and they’re also encouraged to share their experiences throughout the day. We provide guidance so that children learn to communicate thoughts and feelings, to listen, and to use words to solve conflicts, thus strengthening both language and social development.

Uptown Children's Academy's classrooms encourage children to move freely and explore. We have open pathways for crawling, low steps to climb, surfaces with a variety of textures, tunnels, slides, rocking boats, play pits, balance beams, risers, lofts and easy access to outdoors. All Classrooms also have large areas for group activities, quiet play areas for individual play or rest, and a place for messy activities and learning.

Research shows the more the classroom is scaled to the size of the children, the higher the quality and complexity of children’s play will be, and the longer they will be engaged in that play, which over time, increases each child’s interest and concentration. Uptown Children's Academy's Twos’ classrooms are designed so each “early learner” can reach the items on the shelves, explore what interests them, and places stimulating educational toys and activities at their fingertips.

Preschool

Age Range:

3 - 5 years

Areas of Learning:

Reading

Writing

Dramatic Play

Music

Learning Centers, Activities, and Daily Reports

All classrooms are arranged in learning centers, with well-defined spaces for different types of activities. We believe that play is an expression of our creativity, and creativity is at the very root of our ability to learn, to cope, and to become whatever we may be. Our teachers work interactively with your child in our learning centers to help them create knowledge through play and fun. Center areas include:

Building and Construction
Dramatic Play
Art
Writing
Math and Science
Reading and Listening
Music
Sensory Play
Computers

Children enjoy learning when they’re in a fun and dynamic environment. Lesson plans are child–directed and may last from a week to several weeks depending on the interest level of the class. Many structured and common activities are available to the children, which help them develop needed skills. Teachers are always available to facilitate the learning activities as needed. Most importantly, the children have loads of fun while they are learning!

Communication with our families is extremely important. Our teachers provide daily reports through the mobile app Bright-wheel so you’re constantly updated on your child and what they’re doing that day.

Kindergarten Club

Age Range:

4 - 5 years

Areas of Learning:

Social & Emotional Skills

Journaling

Science & Math

WE PREPARE YOUR CHILD FOR KINDERGARTEN!

As children embark on their last year of preschool, it’s important to make sure they’re socially, emotionally, and academically ready for the transition into kindergarten. Our Kindergarten Club program is a proven and fun way to prepare your child for this special milestone.

Why enroll your child in Kindergarten Club?

Kindergarten Club features fun activities and lessons that fine-tune the skills needed for success in kindergarten.
We’ve created this program to prepare your child socially, emotionally, and academically for the transition into elementary school.
Kindergarten Club activities are designed to address the anxieties and apprehension your child may experience as they start kindergarten.

Kindergarten Club begins the week after Martin Luther King Day. Enroll today!

School-Age Program

Age Range:

5 - 12 years

Areas of Learning:

Virtual Learning Support

Computer Lab

Literacy

Math & Science

School-Age Program

As elementary schools are altering schedules, we are here to serve your needs and the needs of your school-aged children with enhanced programs to help with virtual learning sessions and more.

Our School-Age Program is designed to keep your child involved and stimulated before and after school hours. The teachers provide a quiet homework area every afternoon so that children can get a head start on their schoolwork. Additionally, they have outside time, computer time, and access to all of our centers in the School-Age room. Days can be added for school closings and half days.

Transportation

Waynesville School District provides bus transportation to the local elementary schools.

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