Our Programs
The Learning Tree a year-round program that offers all day care for children ages 1year to 12 years. Our daily activities and program consists of a flexible schedule that has been created to provide diversity and challenge for children in all age groups. We offer a structured program for children of all ages that includes a year round curriculum. Our activities include school readiness skills, arts and crafts, games, music, outdoor play and story time. We offer a Full Time contract, which is for children present at the center over 6 hours per day, and we offer a Part Time contract, which is for children present at the center for less than 6 hours per day.
Accepting School Readiness Scholarships
Florida’s School Readiness Program or SR offers financial assistance to eligible low-income families for early education and care so they can become financially self-sufficient and their young children can be successful in school in the future. Services vary based on individual needs and range from extended day care to after-school and school-age care in some instances.
Accepting Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK)
Florida’s Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program or VPK is a free educational program that prepares 4-year-olds for kindergarten and beyond. Children must live in Florida and be 4 on or before September 1 of the school year they enroll. Parents can choose from private child care centers or public schools and school-year or summer programs.
Participating in Florida Health Child Care Food Program
This program provides nutritious meals and snacks to children through public-private partnerships with organizations committed to caring for children. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service.
Accepting Childcare Aware® Program
Child Care Aware® of America offers child care fee assistance to eligible members of the military and DoD. Eligibility requirements are determined by each branch of service or agency.
Curriculum
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Lesson Plans
Children learn by doing. They learn through play, experimentation, exploration, and testing. Learning should be a joyful, natural experience. We have chosen a curriculum based on the developmental needs of the children each the room and to foster individual growth through opportunities for exploration. 90% of brain growth occurs from zero to 5 years old. Each class’s lesson plans and your child’s class flexible schedule are posted on the parent’s board in your child’s room. We incorporate current trends in Early Childhood and School Age Education and then structure this curriculum to meet the needs of the majority of the children in the group. Our curriculum, although it vary depending on age, is guided by the following underlying principals:
⦁ Children learn through dynamic investigation
⦁ Children instigate their own learning
⦁ Learning comes from open-ended experiences
⦁ Adults are facilitators of children’s learning
Infant Curriculum
We will keep your child on his/her daily schedule as much as possible. During the day, we will do activities with your child to help them develop their social, emotional, and cognitive as well as language and physical skills. These activities may include, playing with toys, art, pretending, enjoying stories and books, discovering sand and water, music, and exploring outdoors.
Pre-school Curriculum
The preschool curriculum will cover the following areas:
Movement and Coordination
- Physical attention and relaxation
- Gross motor skills
- Eye-hand, and eye-foot coordination
- Group games
- Creative movement
Autonomy and Social Skills
- Sense of self and personal responsibility
- Working in group setting Work Habits
- Memory Skills/Following directions
- Task persistence and completion
Language
- Oral language
- Nursery rhymes, poems, finger plays/songs
- Emerging literacy skills
Mathematics
- Patters and classifications
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Numbers and numbers sense
- Basic Addition and subtraction
- Money
Orientation in time and space
- Vocabulary
- Measure of time
- Passage of time (past, present, future)
- Actual and represented space
- Simple maps
- Basic geographical concepts
Science
- Human, animal, and plant characteristics
- Physical elements (water, air, and light)
- Tools
Music
- Attend to different sounds
- Imitate and produce sounds
- Listen and sing
- Listen and move
Visual arts
- Attend to visual detail
- Creating art
- Looking at and talking about art
Summer Camp & FREE Summer VPK
FREE SUMMER VPK PROGRAM
Children who are 4 years old on or before September 1, 2022, and have not attended the School Year VPK program can apply. Space is Limited!
To be qualified parents must visit: www.elcbrevard.org to complete the on-line registration process and obtain a 2024-2025 VPK Certificate
SUMMER CAMP
Our summer camp program is offered during the summer months for children ages 4-12. The camp is built around weekly themes. Activities include various art projects, music, water fun, sports, stories, cooking, theatre and field trips. A separate summer program fee is generally charged to help cover transportation costs, and a summer camp T-shirt.
Hours: Mondays-Thursdays 7:30am-4:45pm
Registration is quick and easy, bring a copy of the following items:
- VPK 22/23 Certificate of Eligibility (if applicable)
- Immunization records
- Current physical
Children will receive Breakfast, lunch and a snack daily.
Individual Education Plan (IEP) services will not be provided during the summer.
Transition and Summer Camp
TRANSITION PLAN
The Learning Tree will create an individualized TRANSITION PLAN to help children are about to transition from one class to the next. This is to help the children become familiar with the new program, teachers and children. It also allows the new teachers to get to know the individual needs of each child prior to the transition of an entire class group or several children together. The plan allows flexibility in order for us to best meet the needs of each child. Each child’s individual need is different therefore the TRANSITION PLAN may vary quite a bit from child to child. Your child’s teacher or the director will provide more details about transitioning when your child will move to another classroom.
Mixed-Age Grouping
Our program encourages times for mix-age grouping of children to provide a rich learning environment that recognizes that all children are unique and develop at their own pace and according to their individual interests and abilities. In times of the day where mixed-age grouping is implemented, children who are at least one year apart in age are sometimes placed in the same classroom. Our teachers and staff are educated in mixed-age grouping to help ensure it is implemented with the utmost focus on the child’s development and safety. Mixed-age grouping is an effective tool in child development providing many benefits including:
⦁ Older children learn to be helpful, patient and tolerant, while developing increased confidence in their own skills and abilities.
⦁ Younger children have the opportunity to learn more advanced cognitive and socialization skills from the older children.
⦁ Individual differences in development are better accommodated.
⦁ Children are challenged to think about problems in a more creative and flexible way as they observe children of different ages approaching problems differently than they do.
Our Location
207 Emerson Drive, NW, Palm Bay, FL, United States, Florida
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