Your toddler is constantly testing the environment with a fearless spirit. Through smells, sounds, tastes, sights, and touching, toddlers are growing and learning every moment. Hope Academy's teachers of toddlers are solid Christian individuals who model and encourage proper Christ-like behaviors each day.

Toddlers learn by:

• Singing or reciting a song or rhyme that contains alliteration
• Demonstrating a growing vocabulary by identifying objects
• Reacting and responding appropriately to the wants and needs of others
• Attempting to accomplish routine tasks independently
• View Hope's Parent Handbook for all learning goals.

Care Details
Toddlers 17 months to 30 months attend three, four, or five days per week.

Young learners continue their journey of exploration and discovery in the preschool classroom. Teachers help them apply their developing literacy and math skills through purposeful, planned learning experiences. The lesson plans allow children to learn from their teachers and from interactions with other children.

This private program focuses on:

• Forming a beginning understanding of who they are created to be in Christ
• Using math concepts by counting, grouping, and regrouping objects
• Demonstrating social-emotional intelligence by controlling responses
• Developing critical-thinking skills
• View Hope's Parent Handbook for all learning goals.

Care Details
In order to be admitted, children must be between the ages of 3 and 5 years. In addition, children must be toilet independent to be eligible. Pull-ups are not acceptable; children must be fully toilet trained, needing minimal assistance from teachers.

Our Kindergarten Prep (Pre-Kindergarten) program helps children magnify skills in core pre-academic areas such as literacy, math, and science, as well as in other essential areas such as art, social and emotional well-being, Christian knowledge and relationship and opportunities for behavioral development.

Students are exposed to a structured, diverse array of learning activities to further develop creative thinking, complex problem solving, empathetic collaboration, curious investigation, and astute decision making.

All academic settings expect first graders to possess strong science, technology, engineering and math skills. Hope firmly believes in allowing young children to explore the arts in order to develop a wider opportunity to discover talents and gifts. For this reason, Hope Academy has developed a challenging and inspiring curriculum focusing on STEM, reading and language skills, with a large number of special activities such as music theory, foreign language, drama, creative art, and much more.

The classroom setting is structured, character focused, and sets high expectations for a child’s best effort concerning work ethics and behavior. People of faith integrate Bible knowledge, spiritual growth, and everyday moral expectations, building a strong early childhood foundation that will carry our children through life.

Care Details
To be admitted, children must be 5 years old by September 30th. Our kindergarten program has been a part of the school for many years, and is widely respected. Children who attend will be provided a rigorous curriculum full of exciting activities, provided by experienced staff.

Hope “School’s Out” program opens at 6:30 a.m. and is available for children pre-scheduled to attend. School begins promptly at 8:30 a.m. for the Upper School.

Kindergarten dismisses at 3:00 p.m. Children remaining at the school past these times need to be scheduled to stay in our “School’s Out” Program.

When you’re a working family with school-age children, finding reliable before- and after-school care can be hard to come by. Hope Academy has got you covered.

Elementary Schools Served:

• Fairfield

Early Release
When public schools let out early your child will be transported back to Hope in the same manner as every day. If your child arrives to Hope when school has an Early Release day, as long as it is after 12:30 pm, you will not be charged extra.

When Public School is Closed
Hope Academy's School's Out Program will care for children who are enrolled on a regular basis in the event public schools are closed for non-safety reasons, provided Hope Academy is open (see the calendar).

Camp Explore is for our rising 3rd-5th graders. Campers have the opportunity to study oceanography, learn about movie making, dance like no one is watching, and much more!

Ages
Rising 3rd - 5th Graders

Dates & Times
Weekly (M-F), June 24-August 16
6:30am-6:00pm, snack and lunch provided
Up to 10 hours/day
No part time available

Cost
$195/week