Infant & Young Toddlers

Infants and young toddlers grow and change rapidly and are sensitive to their environments.  Their programs provide a nurturing environment sensitive to their needs.  As their development and growth is predictable, it is used as a basis for designing activities.

Even with very young children, the daily routine is maintained in order to assist in organizing their environment, encouraging self-help skills, and establishing feelings of positive self-esteem. Your child will receive gentle care and nurturing attention.
Teacher to child ratio: 4:1.

Toddlers & Preschoolers

The routine for toddlers and preschoolers is similar except that the toddlers' activities are shorter and less complex than for the preschooler.  Toilet training is begun in the Toddler Room.

While maintaining the predictability and consistency of the daily routine and environment, youngsters are provided with tasks and activities that help them feel comfortable with making decisions, expressing their feelings, learning new concepts and discovering information about their world.

The routines for the infants, toddlers and preschoolers are constructed to prepare each age group for the next program.  Each group's routine is more challenging. The Toddler/Preschool program has a maximum teacher to child ratio of 12:1.  Within each program there are ample opportunities for individualized teaching and experiences.  Teachers are actively involved, encouraging and opening vistas of new ideas and materials, which children use in their own unique way.

Kindergarten

Our Kindergarten program provides low teacher to student ratios and individualized instruction.  Students are expected to do regular homework assignments and attend class on a regular, consistent basis during our main instructional time (9AM-11:30AM).  This allows for the child to reach his/her potential looking forward to First Grade.

The "plan-do-review" program continues during Yellow Brick Road's kindergarten.  As with all our programs, kindergarten teachers are early childhood educators and children participate in small teacher to student ratios.

The full day curriculum provides excitement of the learning centers that include the following:  language arts, science, problem solving, computer, mathematics, art and pretend play.  By utilizing a multi-sensory approach, children are provided the appropriate combination of child-directed activities and directed instruction in math, reading readiness, social sciences, and creative arts.

Extended care is available for kindergarten.

All of our programs include:
     Art/Creative Expression
     Mathematics
     Computer Enrichment
     Language and Literacy Enrichment
     Music Enrichment
     Creative Sensory Exploration
     Cooking
     Science and Nature Exploration
     Large and Small Motor Development
     Group Play and Social Interaction
     School Readiness


Music Together - Bringing Harmony Home

Music Together is an internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and the adults who love them. First offered to the public in 1987, it pioneered the concept of a research-based, developmentally appropriate early childhood music curriculum that strongly emphasizes and facilitates adult involvement. Music Together classes are based on the recognition that all children are musical. All children can learn to sing in tune, keep a beat, and participate with confidence in the music of our culture, provided that their early environment supports such learning.