Our Story
How It Started
The Learning Circle Kids Academy began as a dream for the founder, Michelle Hill-Jack in 1983. Starting out in another building was a beginning. Then three children came into her life to call her “Mom” and they became a family. Ten years later, they added a daddy to the family. So she switched to becoming a home provider of child care. It soon became clear that expansion was vital to the program, so she took a hammer to the walls, moved her family to another home, and Learning Circle Kids Academy took flight!
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Safe Child Care
The First Step
Children love to come to our loving, family-friendly atmosphere. Moms and Dads are comfortable here, knowing that they are welcome to just drop in anytime to visit their child and ensure that their child is happy.
Join us for fun safe child care at County Road 6405 #22, just north of Highway 64, where your child’s second home can be right where it belongs—in a safe neighborhood! We’re just 7 miles west of Farmington.
Our Facilities
Introducing the Longest Running Program
The Learning Circle Kids Academy is now the longest-running program in San Juan County! Our founder and Executive Director, Michelle Hill-Jack, is now taking over the business portion of our program, and her daughter, Carrie Hill Schoenberger, has stepped up to take the reins as on-site Center Director. She is now completing her Bachelor’s Degree and has all staff working toward early childhood degrees and certifications This alone is a vital part of the loving care of children in that they spend their days with informed, loving adults who have your child’s best interest at heart!
Our Vision
Come Celebrate Your Child with Us as We Watch Your Loved One Grow and Learn.
Individualized Learning Plans
Your little one will have his or her own learning goals and plan determined by you and the teacher. We strive to assist your child in meeting those goals by providing activities that teach the skills needed.
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Free Nutritious Meals
We understand the necessity of healthy nutrition to build strong minds and healthy bones for all children. We want to help you keep your child healthy and strong. Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders. We help you give them a great start in life.
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Nutritional education and encouragement to try new foods, assistance with meal preparation, clean-up, and simple cooking are everyday occurrences at The Learning Circle Kids Academy.
We take pride in our healthy meals that consist of fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, various breads, and fluid milk. Our meals are colorful and appealing.
We offer a free formula for newborns until they are off of the bottle. Your child will be offered food according to the USDA Children’s Food Program guidelines.
Did you know that even babies help make breadsticks for meals here? They do if they are big enough to help roll the dough. You will soon see your child eating foods that you would never dream they would eat!
Gardening
We will let you in on a little secret: the kids grow vegetables and help cook them during the summer. We have cooking experiences for the children using familiar and unfamiliar foods. Yes, the kids love to eat what they help cook!
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When you hear, “Mom, can we have little green trees for dinner tonight or white ones?” That means your child wants broccoli or cauliflower. Take the challenge and bring your child to enjoy and experience eggplant, artichoke, “chicken of the sea,” and much more. Shh! “Chicken of the Sea” is a healthy baked fish. We just don’t tell them. Did you ever dream your child would eat tilapia or salmon? Come on over for lunch sometime. We don’t do junk food.
Our garden has been a community effort from funds from great San Juan County companies that furnished the garden boxes.
The preschool children and school-age children begin growing the seedlings in late spring, plant when it is warm, and tend the garden until harvest. The vegetables are washed, cut, sliced, and some preparation is done by the children so that they eat what they are growing.
Our garden will be a big hit giving your child a sense of joy and well-being out in the sunshine and exercise. It will also teach him or her self-sufficiency and sustenance skills for a lifetime. Come garden with us. Many families enjoy gardening at pick-up time.
An Opportunity
To Learn from the Best
Children learn best when they have an opportunity to respond to the beauty and wonders of the world around them. They learn the order of the natural world in an environment that is structured, appealing, and offers opportunities for discovery of all kinds, socially, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. This has always been our philosophy, based on scientific evidence about how the brain develops and children reach their full potential.
You, your child, and your family are a vital part of our program. You are needed and appreciated as you participate in activities, and graduations, volunteer for our Parent Board, help with holiday parties, celebrate your child’s birthday, giving us “Your voice” as the customer and as an advocate for your child.
Our School
The Best of Teachers
Every teacher has had a thorough background clearance, has CPR and First Aid training, and is working toward college degrees and certifications. Because we offer maximum work satisfaction and our staff loves what they do, The Learning Circle Kids Academy has low teacher turnover.
The Unbeatable Guarantee
We are so sure that you will be happy with our program that at any time within the first 30 days of enrollment, you wish to leave and attend another center, we will gladly refund a full week of tuition.
Strict Security Measures
Tools of the Mind
One-on-one Attention
All of the children from babies on up have one-on-one attention with caring teachers that talk to them, hug them, feed them, and keep them safe.