Age Appropriate Learning and Play

The Littlest Feet Make the Biggest Footprint on Our Hearts

At Creative Kids, our infant program is a little community designed to nurture young babies while fostering their quickly changing physical development.

We provide a loving, safe, and secure environment where our focus is to build a basic trust between our infants and adults. Teachers accomplish this by responding to their needs, both physical and emotional.

We provide high-quality materials that are well maintained and arranged for the babies to have greater opportunities to explore their world safely, using their senses and learning naturally through their experiences.

Our infant community includes a curriculum developed specifically for this age utilizing FUNSHINE EXPRESS*. The first few months of a child’s life are crucial to their long-term development. The staff of Creative Kids spends each day opening new worlds of discovery for them in this creative class, full of happy language, music, and sensory stimulation.

*Funshine Express is an early childhood program in line with South Carolina standards. It is child-focused and uses a carefully designed process of learning through discovery. We understand that long-term trusting relationships with our caregivers anchor learning and development.

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The Wonder of Twos

At Creative Kids, we create an environment with planned activities so our young two-year-old learners are engaged in their daily program, learning naturally about math, science, art, reading, music, movement, and language.

Each classroom is designed with activity centers for self-guided play among their friends in small groups. Each day begins with a large group circle time around the rug where they sing songs, do finger plays, and enjoy greeting their friends.

Throughout their day, they experience meaningful play. We provide them with creative materials, well maintained and arranged furniture that is suited for Twos. This is also the potty training year, and we help our little ones through this important milestone with encouragement and understanding.

Our Twos Program uses the “Funshine Express Curriculum Program*” which is aligned with the South Carolina State Standards for Early Care and Education and is designed specifically to foster development at this highly active age. Outdoor play, enrichment classes in art and science, Chapel, and gym time are some of their favorite activities.

*Find out more about the Funshine Express Program! Ask for a preview and see how it works in the classroom each day, or visit their website at www.funshineexpress.com

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What We Learn with Pleasure, We Never Forget

The four-year-old is a dynamo of energy and drive, emerging from the Threes into the Fours with imaginative ideas that spring from their little minds! Our creative approach to Fours will help your child build a secure foundation in kindergarten through the daily classroom activities planned by well-qualified and loving teachers. The classroom is designed with many area learning centers to facilitate small group play-based interaction with friends. Each morning there is a large group circle time around the Promethean boards while they learn new concepts in math and reading.

The Abeka curriculum is used in our K-4 program. It provides phonics-based literacy to encourage reading while building a strong foundation and love of reading. Math and Science are part of their daily routines. Spanish, art, gym time, music, theater, and Chapel help each student while learning naturally about the world around them. We want methods and materials that work. That’s what we have found with Abeka: a comprehensive, quality curriculum and materials written from a Christian perspective. Please visit www.Abeka.com for a full look at the curriculum. Our Pre-K Fours Program utilizes the Abeka curriculum and supporting center with learning activities and hands-on interaction as they grow with the program. Abeka has, for more than forty years, provided quality preschool materials for Christian programs. We want methods and materials that work. That’s what we have found with Abeka: a comprehensive, quality curriculum and materials written from a Christian perspective. The Phonics based Abeka is the key to reading. Young students learn the short sounds on the vowels and then how to blend these sounds with a consonant. In a short time, students can read hundreds of words, giving students a sense of accomplishment from the beginning. Once they have mastered simple words, they learn more sounds and longer words. Abeka also builds a strong foundation in Math, Science, and Art. Creative Kids provides a wide variety of enrichment programs to enhance the experience of three and four-year students.

Our four-year students wear a cap and gown at the annual Grand Celebration for families to attend and enjoy! They love singing songs and reciting their poems for us, as well as showing off how they can read and speak Spanish! The Grand Celebration is a highlight of Creative Kids!

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Ready Set Go! Summer Camp!

Creative Kids has been providing Summer Camps for more than 30 years to kids ages 4-13! Even our youngest children enjoy a wonderful fun-filled summer camp each year! Along with our regular Summer Camp for kids ages 5-13, our Lake Wylie location offers JUNIOR SUMMER CAMP for children younger than K-5. Summers Are just plain fun with our weekly themes and implemented activities. Contact us for more information!

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