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Each Day at The Impact Academy has many stories! These are a few of them captured through photographs. You can find more of our stories on our social media profiles.
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Social-Emotional Learning
Like adults, children have emotions that present in various ways. They feel anger, joy, pain, frustration, happiness, and every other emotion you can think of. We work to help them manage those emotions by helping them discover the language that communicates it and by helping them self-regulate so they can manage their feelings well. One of our students hurt her ankle while playing and was very upset about it. It was a minor "boo boo" but the discomfort and emotions welled up and presented themselves in tears, crying, and despondence . We made sure she was okay but we didn't want to stop there.
Our director of programming included all of her friends who were also concerned about the situation. He made this a social emotional teaching moment with pre K students. He instructed the students to keep taking deep breaths and remaining calm even if you get hurt or frustrated. He showed the students how to use their hands to visually represent the inhale and exhale process through difficult times or when they get hurt. This helps children regulate the physiological response their body has to their emotional experiences. The entire group helped the one hurt student calm down. By the end of the exercise they were laughing, tears were wiped away, and she was able to clearly communicate her pain, her process, and her relief! Students are not only gaining actual knowledge, and content; they are also learning social emotional skills to apply in every aspect of their present and future life.
Foundations of Literacy
There are so many skills that add to comprehension. The three year old class utilized letter recognition and letter order to help students learn how to spell their names and other words.
Letter recognition and placement! The teachers will soon take the written letters away and the children will be able to put the letters in place by themselves!
The kids had so much fun and were so proud of being able to do it! Comprehension starts with recognition!
This builds letter and word recognition and spelling skills!
Seeds, Art, and Learning!
The three year old class learned about seeds and flowers! They explored sunflower seeds by using fine motor skills to break them open and see what they looked like while learning about how and why seeds are made the way they are! Then they experienced the sunflower seeds by eating them! Some of them feel like sunflowers are better to look at than to eat!
The class also created beautiful sunflower art by gluing seeds to the paper sculptures!
We believe immersive environments help educational experiences. Children can make connections in so many different ways and have a blast while doing so!
The fun extended to finger painting beautiful flowers that grow from seeds all while being in a space decorated with flowers painted on the walls!
Field Trip to Gillete Park in Wilson, NC
Field trip day! Everyone was buckled up and excited to go visit Wilson! The weather could not have been more perfect for an outdoor day of exploration and fun!
It was our very first trip and was awesome! We had lots of staff to support and some even came in early so they can join in on the good times!
Gillette Park in Wilson was so much fun! New environments spark new curiosities and new discoveries! The kids climbed, slid, and played their way into fun! Sometimes it’s good to just get away from the norm and expand environments!
The teaching team had just as much fun as the kids!
Community Partnership
Community conversations and collaborations. TIA Directors got to connect with Frenchy Davis, the director of Rocky Mount Daycare Foundations Builder Academy to discuss how we can work together to eradicate inequity in early childhood education. It’s imperative that we take steps to understand systems that marginalize populations so we can all work to restructure them in a way that builds everyone up! It has to be done in community with others! We love our community! Our goal is to impact it for the better!
We first met Frenchy through Down East Partnership for Children. They have been such an amazing partner and guide!
Trax Coffee Bar has the perfect outside patio for meetings! The fruit smoothies were good too!
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