Welcome to Kid-Doodles Learning Center

 Our Classrooms

Infants (6 Weeks to 1 Year Old)

Our infant program provides an enriching environment designed to enhance your baby’s development while allowing them to explore and learn at their own pace. We surround our “wee ones” with fun music, soft toys, and lots of hugs. Our nurturing staff spends their day talking, reading, rocking, and making lots of eye contact. Our main goal is to provide your baby with a secure, trusting environment. Our on-going communication keeps you well-informed and creates not only a bond with your baby but also a warm, strong bond with you.

Waddlers (1-2 Years)

Our educational style is a way of teaching and learning that requires teachers to observe and listen to the children. Teachers ask questions and listen for the children’s ideas, hypotheses, and theories. After observing children in action, the teachers compare, discuss, and interpret their observations. Teachers plan activities, studies, and long term projects in the classroom based on their observations. Teachers partner with children and the exchange of ideas are referred to as the Cycle of Inquiry. Teachers use their interpretations, intentions, and goals (social, emotional, and academic) to make choices that they share with the children. Learning is seen not as a linear process but as a spiraling progression.

Toddlers (2-3 Years Old)

Our Toddler program allows your little ones to spend busy, fulfilling days in a variety of activities that promote learning and exploration. Whether it’s filling containers with colored water, painting with pudding, playing with a ball, building with blocks, or snuggling up with their teacher while reading a story. Your child will be learning social, emotional, and academic skills to help them gain confidence and independence in a safe environment. Our activities include, but are not limited to: outside play, music, sensory play, language awareness (singing, dramatic play, etc.), circle time, and free play.

Tops (3 Years Old) and Preschool (3-4 Years Old)

Our young preschoolers are just learning to verbally communicate, and develop the ability to share feelings and negotiate with peers in a group setting. Teachers facilitate a classroom atmosphere in which our children are treated as capable individuals, whose opinions, actions, and thoughts are respected and valued. Significant emphasis is placed on modeling appropriate language and behavior, in order to create a respectful environment where trust, self-esteem, autonomy, communication, and teamwork are represented. Our child-led, project-based learning becomes more pronounced at this stage.

Early project work facilitates curiosity, investigation, and discovery. Teachers take physical and verbal cues in order to develop “real world” projects, allowing children to explore their surroundings in a meaningful way. Keen observation of responses is important so that teachers can flexibly reorganize the curriculum to promote the interests of the children. Lesson plans create the framework for a broad experience. Children are exposed to literacy, music, art, dramatic play, sensory experiences, motor development, science, nature, and early math skills on a regular basis through project work. Educational experiences are designed to be age-appropriate and personally challenging, and the learning process is more valued than the finished product.

Pre-Kindergarten (4-5 Years Old)

Our Pre-Kindergarten program is our final step in our project-based learning continuum. Teachers deliver a curriculum predicated on the emerging interests, ideas, and questions of the children. Project work provides ample opportunity for discussion, decision-making, choices, cooperation, and evaluation during the course of an investigation. Projects can last days, weeks, or even months based on the interests and enthusiasm of the children. Through these projects, teachers routinely plan and deliver a wide variety of educational experiences, which incorporate literacy, music, art, dramatic play, motor development, math, nature, and science. Kindergarten readiness is emphasized by integrating state learning standards throughout educational experiences.