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Choose the Right Program for Your Child
Find the perfect fit for your child’s growth and development at Learning Circle Kids Academy. Explore our diverse programs and give them the best start in life!
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(505) 598-9283
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learningcircle@msn.com
Infants
We believe that children use play to learn about their world; therefore, our program goals focus on facilitating play and enabling your baby to function in positive relationships with others.
Toddlers
We promote building language, developing communication, increasing vocabulary, building muscles and coordination, and helping your child to become problem solvers.
Preschool
Your child’s learning is prepared to build strong minds with the “tools of the mind” necessary for a successful life, such as self-regulation, patience, fairness, etc. It is created to be culturally supportive.
Curriculum
Infant Program
You are welcome at any time to come and check on your precious baby. No need to call; just come on in. We like having you here. That’s what makes us “home away from home” with the “TLC” that The Learning Circle is known for! We are family.
Individualized Care and Attention for Infants
Your baby will get lots of rocking, loving, and individual attention.
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Your precious baby will be held, rocked, loved, talked to, played with, and sung to so that he or she can develop his or her sense of trust, feel loved, learn a language, and build their muscles.
Nutritious Meals and Physical Activities
Proper nutrition, physical and mental activities, assists parents in meeting the needs of their little one at The Learning Circle Kids Academy.
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Our infant environment is set up to encourage your baby’s growth. You will notice that we do not have high chairs. Your baby will be held to drink a bottle or to be spoon-fed.
Parental Involvement and Developmental Screenings
You are a vital part of your child’s team at The Learning Circle. You are the leader in assisting teachers in helping your child while you work or attend school.
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We strive for a daily balance of indoor/outdoor times, tummy time, physical development, relaxation, and one-on-one interaction with your baby.
Play-Based Learning and Enabling Positive Relationships
We believe that children use play to learn about their world; therefore, our program goals focus on facilitating play and enabling your baby to function in positive relationships with others.
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On any given day, your baby can play with blocks, musical toys, soft toys, riding toys, playing in front of mirrors, looking at books, and spend time playing peek-a-boo games with the teachers.
Toddlers
Toddlers are very impulsive at this stage due to their curious nature. At The Learning Circle Kids Academy in Kirtland, NM, our daily activities in the Wobbler Room promote language, develop communication, increase vocabulary, build muscles and coordination, and help your child to become problem solvers.
Potty Training and Developmental Milestones
Your best stress reliever is that we assist you in potty training your toddler. Look at the money you will save when that is done! We even have a Potty Training Graduation!
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You will find great joy in seeing your “little one” learning to speak, sing and communicate clearly and learning new words.
Soon you will feel your child’s success in being able to let you know what he or she needs and knows. We encourage you to enjoy the little songs, stories, and rhymes your “Wobbler” is learning.
Engaging and Nurturing Environment
Your “Wobbler” will spend his or her day playing with appropriate clean toys, dancing, singing, talking, learning to sit at a table and feed him or herself, playing in the sunshine on the very supervised and safe baby playground.
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Your child’s day will be socially relevant, mentally engaging, and meaningful to them. Holding, loving, talking with, and encouragement are given individually.
Loving and attentive teachers spend a lot of time closely watching your little one to see what he or she knows and is interested in.
Individualized Care and Nutrition
Your child’s day is beginning to have a group structure at this age. However, every child’s need is met. When your child is sleepy, he or she can rest. When your child is hungry, we feed your child.
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Our teachers evaluate the children formally twice a year, and of course, daily communication and daily visits are encouraged. You are welcome to come and visit or observe your child at any time.
Play-Based Learning and Lifelong Skills
Your child’s play provides knowledge, understanding, and processes for skill-building and encourages lifelong learning. We give the play a purpose at The Learning Circle Kids Academy!
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Circle Time—Children enjoy language development, stories, songs, finger plays, and stories.
Short group activities—Reading and math-readiness activities help build on their interests. Your child is exposed to meaningful language to help build their vocabulary and enhance the learning value of each experience in our program. They are given lots of opportunities to practice their newly acquired skills.
Wobbler activities include:
- Sand play/water play
- Puzzles/manipulatives
- Play kitchen
- Riding toys
- Shape-sorting
- Balls
- Block building
- Coloring
- Beginning cutting
- Painting / Messy play
- Dress-up corner
- Large and small motor skills
Friendships that last a lifetime are made at The Learning Circle Kids Academy in Kirtland, NM!
Preschool
Your child will really enjoy our three and four-year-old learning that has been developed to meet the needs of this energetic group. Your child’s learning is prepared to build strong minds with the “tools of the mind” necessary for a successful life, such as self-regulation, patience, fairness, etc. It is created to be culturally supportive.
Curriculum and Learning Approach
Theme-based learning with a focus on developing strong minds and essential life skills for 3 to 4-year-olds at The Learning Circle Kids Academy, in a culturally-supportive environment.
Accreditation & Licensing
Trust the best for your child’s early education. The Learning Circle Kids Academy is accredited, “5-Star” rated, and recognized by the NM State Board of Education.
Engaging Teaching Methods
Exciting field trips to places like pet shops, grocery stores, and doctor’s offices spark curiosity and inspire pretend play as various “career roles.” Encourage your child’s growth.
Nurturing Teachers and Individualized Learning
Our caring teachers use observations, screenings, and parent input to plan realistic, fun, and encouraging activities. Children learn at their pace with scaffolded support.
The Routine
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8:45 – 9:45 A.M. – Play in the Learning Centers allowing choice of play and accountability for materials. Each daily plan is to provide centers or areas for quiet or busy choices.
9:45 – 10:00 A.M. – Drink, light snack, and toilet
10:00 – 10:40 A.M. – Circle time with ages 3-5 consisting of individual greetings, discussion of today’s activities, calendar, weather, pledge of allegiance, and chore chart. Two-year-olds participate in a separate short activity instead of Circle Time.
10:40 – 11:00 A.M. – Fresh air walks (weather permitting) or outdoor free play.
11:00 – 11:15 A.M. – Wash, set tables, prepare for lunch
11:15 – 12:00 P.M. – Family-style lunch and polite conversation with nutrition orientation. After the meal, the children clean up after themselves.
12:00 – 2:00 P.M. – Prepare for a nap, gather blankets and mats, use the restroom, wash, and settle down as the story is presented.
2:00 – 2:30 P.M. – Arise from nap, toilet, wash hands, drink, snack.
2:30 – 2:45 P.M. – Teacher-directed closure, discussion of today’s happenings, and daily newspaper highlights.
2:45 – 3:45 P.M. – Outdoor play until parents arrive. If bad weather, play with clay, table games, or large muscle activities.
TIMELINE
Daily Schedule at The Learning Circle Kids Academy
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.
6:30 – 8:30 A.M.
Greeting, breakfast, relaxation with books, board games, free play, or sleeping.
11:15 – 12:00 P.M.
Family-style lunch and polite conversation with nutrition orientation. After the meal, the children clean up after themselves.
11:15 – 12:00 P.M
Outdoor play until parents arrive. If bad weather, play with clay, table games, or large muscle activities.
School Age
Supervised activities are planned to support this need for socialization and independence. You will see the magic happen at The Learning Circle Kids Academy as your child learns to eat a large variety of foods that you would never believe he or she would even try! Check out our Gardening and nutrition page for more details.
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- Time to prepare homework
- Time to burn off energy
- Enjoying healthy snacks
- Dramatics, table games, games, arts, field trips, crafts, pets, gardening, using the computer, and relaxation will enhance your child’s education
- Children this age enjoy working independently. Your child will enjoy and gain a lot from socializing with their peers.
Summer Camp
Your child no matter what age will enjoy our “Fun in the Sun” with education stuck in there. Your child won’t even realize that he or she is learning. That’s what The Learning Circle Daycare Summer Camp has offered for 31 years. We even have a mini-camp for the little ones!
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Babies and toddlers enjoy the sunshine, toys, painting, making things, playing in the fenced-in baby playground with grass, riding toys and slides their size, plenty of shade, and TLC. Even toddlers get to play in the baby pool sometimes. The teachers and babies enjoy sitting outside for lunch.
If your child is older, we have more than plenty to keep young minds and bodies busy. Children three and over:
- Create their own books with the computer
- Take Public Library Field-trips and Challenges
- Make costumes and put on skits for each other and parents, if they wish
- Dance
- Learn arts, crafts, and math games
- Plant and harvest a garden
- Partake in the Young Chefs Camp with the “Chopped” Challenge
- Participate in many more outdoor activities and field trips to sports, nature walks, cultural events, swimming lessons, water play, pretend camp-outs
- And much more!