Our Philosophy

We are a childcare facility that offers a Pre-School Program with a mixed age group of 3 to 5-year- old children. We provide extended opportunities for children to explore and manipulate materials. Our large and small group activities include art, story time and music and movement. We utilize the highly researched and validated HighScope curriculum. Our Mission: At Sunshine Academy we create an atmosphere where children feel safe, unconditionally loved and respected. All social and emotional well-being begins with unconditional love and acceptance. This is accomplished by providing a community that builds healthy relationships where self-confidence, independence and empathy for others are encouraged. We also welcome parental involvement and supportive relationships between parents, teachers and children.

Our trained staff supports a child’s ability to make choices, take risks and solve problems. They facilitate rich vocabulary in the context of play and natural conversation. In our safe, organized environment we provide materials that are relevant, creative, challenging and create a sense of curiosity.

Our environment is designed to encourage children to persist and repeat skills which lead to exploring new learning opportunities without fear of failure. In essence, our goal is to create active lifetime learners.

We provide daily routines and activities that are predictable, yet flexible enough to meet the needs of an individual child. Enhanced learning takes place during brief teacher directed, large and small group activities. Our print and vocabulary rich classroom emphasizes reading stories that rhyme, repeat and illustrate order. Fine motor materials that motivate manipulation and exploration are supplied. Singing is also promoted during music and movement times and used effectively throughout the day. Children are encouraged to care for oneself by supporting personal hygiene, good nutrition, gross motor physical activities and rest.