Lake Highlands Christian Child Enrichment Center
Classes:
Infants
Beginning at two months old, we use puppets, music, interesting visuals, gentle body movements, and age-appropriated playthings, to expand the world of infants.
Caretakers engage infants with voice, touch, and facial expression.
Toddlers
Strengthening motor skills through songs, fingerplay, music, rhythm, movement, and toy exploration is the primary vehicle of learning for toddlers, making learning the basics fun.
As the toddler matures, the learning extends to language development and discrete concentration—recognizing body parts, animals and their sounds, colors, shapes, and simple puzzles. Elemental Bible stories provide opportunities to increase listening and social skills.
Two Years
At two years old, we begin using the building blocks of a widening vocabulary, stronger social and motor skills, and the ever-increasing curiosity towards potty training.
Our two-year olds learn to follow directions, to listen and respond to books, to count, to recite and recognize upper-case letters, to match objects, and to recognize and name shapes and colors.
Our children begin to learn the consequences for actions, how to apply words to feelings, to be courteous, to share and to care for their toys—and for each other.
Bible stories, circle games, simple puzzles, toys, blocks, songs, finger plays, and body rhythmics are some of the elements we use to make learning fun for our two-year olds.
Three Years
With three-year olds, our learning continues with no less fun and delight, as we begin to fold those important pre-kindergarten ingredients into learning mixture:
- Why do I need my jacket?
- Why do I have to brush my teeth?
- Why is the sky blue?
- Why do dogs bark?
- Why do I have two eyes but only one nose?
Each week, our teachers show our children the fun in exploring—and the joy of discovering the answers to their questions.
Our three-year olds learn to follow more complex directions, to listen and sit for longer periods. Group participation becomes more important.
Creative dramatics, expanding language and vocabulary, developing pre-math and pre-writing skills, learning perception, sensory activities, and fun with food, add to the excitement of growing up.
Four Years
Four-year and five-year olds are on the brink; the emphasis moves to preparing each child for kindergarten. Learning invokes more complicated relationships and concepts. Practical skills such as the proper use of scissors and the ability to tie one’s shoes expand the child’s self confidence.
For students to be ready to move on to kindergarten, we set our priorities to emphasize essential communication skills and problem-solving technique.
Each child learns to recognize color words, to Identify primary and secondary colors by name, and to Identify basic shapes by name. We teach our childern to place items and pictures in sequential order, to match and sequence similar objects and pictures. Each child learns to recognize the alphabet—both lower and upper case—and their corresponding sound, to recognize numbers zero through twelve, and to count from one to twenty.
Pre-Kindergarten
- Honey Bees
- Young scholars
Children who are four-and-a-half years in age—before September 1—or who have completed the curriculum for four-year and five-year olds class—we call them our "Honey Bees"—can continue their preparation for kindergarten entrance in Young Scholars.
We use Butterflies curriculum, an outstanding program from High Reach Learning designed to increase language, literacy, math, writing, discovery, and social skills.
Kindergarten through Sixth Grade
- Navigators
Care for school-aged children is not an afterthought at the Christian Child Enrichment Center. We provide a quiet period for completing homework or reading a new book.
During the academic year, we offer before-school and after-school care. We make sure the children get to school on time and have a safe place to stay after their day at school.
In the summer, we offer a relaxed curriculum that provides activities to keep the school-year lessons intact.
Long, hot summer afternoons can fly by with outdoor activities, arts and crafts, and group games.
