Lobby
Our front lobby includes an entrance door security system, a reception window to the office, family and community bulletin boards, children’s artwork displayed on the walls, a comfy love seat, tables & chairs, and a computer with an on-going slide-show of the children’s activities at our Center.
Classrooms
Our Center is architecturally designed for the safety and comfort of our children. Each of the six classrooms has carpet and linoleum play areas, a kitchenette, and a bathroom with a child-size toilet. Protective features include observation windows, safety-glass exterior windows, classroom telephones and intercoms, and an exit door in each classroom leading directly to fenced outdoor play areas that are secure and carefully supervised at all times.
Multi-Purpose Room
Our large multi-purpose room includes impact-protection flooring, a low stage with stage lights, bathroom, filtered water fountain, and refrigerator. The School-Age Program is also housed in this room. During inclement weather, we use this space for obstacle courses, scooters, parachute play, dancing, and other activities and games. It also serves as our meeting room for special Center activities, such as sing-alongs, shows performed by the older groups for the younger groups, holiday fun, enrichment programs, and family events.
Play Yards and Outdoor Environment
We have two play yards designed exclusively for the needs and enjoyment of our age groups.
Younger Children’s Play Yard
There are climbing/play structures, slides, tubes, rockers, sand boxes, trike/running track, playhouses, basketball hoops, and a picnic table. The play yard is shaded by trees and covered in artificial turf. It has a porch adjacent to classroom bathrooms.
Older Children’s Play Yard
The large loblolly pine trees, deciduous trees, large sand box, and gardens planted by the children are the wonderful setting for natural play, as well as child-initiated and teacher-directed scientific exploration. Our students witness the magic of caterpillars changing into butterflies, experience the satisfaction and responsibility of caring for growing plants, watch intently as songbirds build their nests and care for their young, and participate in the childhood joy of toad catching.
A spacious sand area and large play house are stocked with creative toys, kitchen and other household items, and crates. We routinely observe the high levels of creativity and invention which the children employ while using these materials, often in combination with the unending supply of pine cones, pine needles, leaves, sand, and water from the garden hose and drinking fountain.
A climbing/play structure, trike track, basketball hoop, and traditional sports equipment, such as balls, bats, and jump ropes, increase the children’s physical development and cooperative play skills.