Rooms
Diverse Learning Environments
Infants
Our infant room serves infants from birth through 12 months. Our infant room has individually assigned cribs, two play spaces including a protected play space for non mobile infants, and a separate kitchen for feeding and bottle preparation. We pride ourselves on keeping our space clean and sanitary for your baby.
Our infant program is a wonderful foundation for healthy development. Infants have their own individualized feeding and nap schedule. Enrichment activities are offered to the infants but infants are never forced to participate. Our teachers are attentive to an infant’s facial expression and other non-verbal cues to determine interest and willingness to try the activity. Our teachers make weekly written notes on each child’s development, and choose activities from the Creative Curriculum Intentional Teaching Experiences which best support each infant.
As you consider infant care it is very important that you find caregivers who are good communicators. Our staff members are highly qualified and available daily to answer your questions, manage your concerns, or to be a resource for you. Milk or soy based formula is provided free of charge with your tuition. We also support nursing mothers/breast milk. When your infant is ready to eat solid foods we provide these as well. Our onsite laundry facility uses dye-free, fragrance-free detergent and minimizes the laundry you do at home while allowing us to keep your child and their belongings clean at all times. Infants move into our Guppy room around their first birthday, as they show signs of readiness. In our Guppy room, infants have a much larger area divided into learning centers to freely move,
play, and explore.
In our Guppy room, infants get much loving support as they practice and acquire transitional skills, such as sitting at a low table and self feeding, drinking from a sippy cup, and as they grow older and bigger, learning to sleep on a cot. Attention to learning and development continues in our Guppy room with weekly teacher observations on each child’s progress and careful selection of daily Intentional Teaching Experiences.
During your tour we will answer any questions you have about how our program fits the individual needs of your family.
Toddlers
The toddler years (18 - 36 mos) are a time of great discovery, exploration, and language development. Our Explorer and Firefly teachers are experienced and specialized in the needs of this age range and their rooms are set up to promote safe and meaningful exploration and play. Our teachers use the Creative Curriculum to plan fun, hands-on activities that help your child understand simple concepts such as color, shape, matching, and comparing. Engaging story times, simple songs and rhymes, and intentional vocabulary introduction and usage promotes language development.
Our Explorers and Fireflies follow a simple, yet flexible, schedule to establish predicable routines. Their classrooms are organized into learning centers which include blocks, dramatic play, puzzles and manipulatives, library, sand/sensory table, and a spot to rest or relax. Opportunities to draw or paint happen daily. The toddler classrooms have their own dedicated playground as well as an indoor gross motor space to play during inclement weather. Agape provides a balanced and nutritious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. Teachers assist the children in learning how to wash their hands, use spoons, and begin potty training when ready. All children have individually assigned cots and laundry is washed at least weekly using dye-free, fragrance-free detergent.
During your tour we will answer any questions you have about how our program fits the individual needs of your family.
Preschool
Agape has three preschool classrooms which allows us to place children as best suited to their age and ability. All our preschool classrooms use multi-week studies from the Creative Curriculum which supports learning from real experiences, literacy development through targeted skill read-alouds and shared writing experiences, introducing and using weekly Tier 2 vocabulary words, as well as critical thinking and mathematical skills. All our learning activities are targeted towards children’s interests and are developmentally appropriate for young minds! Additionally, our trained and experienced teachers emphasize and model social skills and help children manage appropriate ways to handle and express their emotions.
Our three preschool classrooms are equipped with a wide range of toys and materials to support learning across multiple domains and range of abilities. Our rooms are organized in learning centers, which include math and puzzles; blocks and construction; dramatic play; science and nature; books and literacy; art and writing; and a circle time and teaching wall. Each classroom also has a cozy cube as well as a place for one or two children to play by themselves as desired. We have a large playground as well as a separate bike path for tricycles. On inclement weather days, we have a large gym with a generous closet for storing balls, large plastic blocks, tumbling mats, and other equipment to promote exercise and physical development.
Agape provides a balanced and nutritious breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. All children have individually assigned cots and laundry is washed at least weekly using dye-free, fragrance-free detergent.
During your tour we will answer any questions you have about how our program fits the individual needs of your family.
Summer Camp and Before/After School Care:
Agape offers before and after school programs for K-3 siblings of enrolled students who attend Winton Woods schools. We provide breakfast and afternoon snacks and a safe place to play. Winton Woods provides bussing.
Agape offers a full time summer program for K-3 siblings of enrolled students. Our summer program focuses on fun and memorable activities, in house special events and programs, and keeping academic skills fresh.
