Seton Ridge Children's
Center offers a Part-time Preschool Program serving children aged 18 months to
5 years.
Curriculum
Our curriculum is hands-on,
developmentally appropriate, and child-centered. We stress creativity,
cooperation, and competence and understand the importance of these early years
in the development of intelligence. We firmly believe that early childhood
should be filled with wonder and the "Oh!" of discovery, and that in order to
become life-long learners children must have the chance to experiment and "see
how it works", to practice and build upon their successes. Science, Art, Math,
Language and Literacy, Music, Motor Skills, Social Skills, and Imagination are
all part of our program - all developed through play and open-ended projects.
We often get messy and we always have fun.
Low Teacher/Child
ratio
9 a.m. to
Noon
Optional Stay & Play until 2:30
p.m.
Early drop-off
available
Participatory and Standard Fees
The Participatory Tuition
is for those parents who can commit to a given number of days per year as a
volunteer in their child's classroom. If your child is enrolled in a 2 day
program, you will be required to participate 5 days per year (and are certainly
welcome and appreciated if you choose to come more often.) In a 3 day program,
the required number of days per year is 6; in a 4 day program, the number is 7;
and in a 5 day, the required number of days is 8 annually. Parents choosing the
Standard Tuition are not making a commitment to come on a regular basis, but
they are welcome visitors any time the calendar permits.
The following
forms can be filled out ahead of time and brought in to the office to
register.
Seton Ridge
Children's Center
Registration
Form
Social Services Child
Enrollment Information |
| CLASS OFFERINGS & FEES |
| 2008 - 2009 |
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MONTHLY TUITION |
| CLASS |
REGISTRATION FEE |
PARTICIPATORY |
STANDARD |
| 5
Morning 4'S (M-F) |
$100 |
$305 |
$330 |
| 4
Morning 4'S (M-TH) |
$100 |
$275 |
$300 |
| 3
Morning 4'S (M-F), (3 day?) |
$100 |
$240 |
$265 |
| VPK-5
Morning 4's |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
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| 5
Morning 3'S (M-F) |
$100 |
$305 |
$330 |
| 4
Morning 3'S (M-TH) |
$100 |
$275 |
$300 |
| 3
Morning 3'S (M,W,F) (2 Classes) |
$100 |
$240 |
$265 |
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| 3
Morning 2 1/2'S (M,W,F) |
$100 |
$240 |
$265 |
| 2
Morning 2 1/2'S (T,TH) |
$100 |
$210 |
$235 |
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| 3
Morning Mom's Morning Out (M,W,F) |
$100 |
$240 |
$265 |
| 2
Morning Mom's Morning Out (T,TH) |
$100 |
$210 |
$235 |
Age
Requirements
Children
enrolling in Mom's Morning Out must be 1 on or before March 1,
2008
Children enrolling in the
2 1/2's must be 2 on or before April 1, 2008
Children enrolling in the 3's must be 3 on or before September 1,
2008
Children enrolling in the
4's must be 4 on or before September 1, 2008
Additional Information
Children enrolling in
classes for 3 & 4 year olds must be toilet trained.
The school day is from 9 am to 12 noon. The Mom's
Morning Out classes will dismiss at 11:15 am for the first few weeks of
school, until the children are adjusted. We follow the Broward County School
Calendar.
Stay and Play is
our after school program and is available to all children attending Seton Ridge
Children's Center who are toilet trained. The afternoon is from 12 to
2/2:30 pm. The afternoon activities are low-keyed and varied, responding to the
children's needs at that time of day. There is a fee of $10/12 per afternoon,
with a one-time registration fee of $25. Children may be enrolled at any time
and it's available for occasional or regular use.
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Please call for more information or
feel free to stop by for a visit.
954-345-7178
We look forward to meeting
you!
Our Philosophy
We
fundamentally believe that children are entitled to a childhood that is rich in
wonder and discovery. That is, after all, what childhood is for! Never again in
life will a bug, a tar bubble, a blob of paint on paper be the source of such
profound fascination and endless possibility.
At Seton Ridge Children's
Center, we respect the child's right to be exactly who he or she is at exactly
this moment in time -with all the limits and possibilities his or her age and
developmental level impose and anticipate. We try not to make sweeping
generalizations about the "shoulds" and "can'ts"; we look instead at the little
individuals we have in front of us and set about opening doors.
These
early childhood years are ones in which the world is being absorbed through
every pore. Everything is new, and so we provide as many experiences as
possible in which children can discover, test, re-invent, and reconstruct their
knowledge until they own it. These are the experiences that reading, math,
science -all the traditional Academic skills -will build upon as a foundation.
But first children must glob, pour, line up, smush, sing, dance, invent --and
do it all again.
In early childhood, experience is the teacher; the
process, hardly ever the product, is what has meaning. "How does it work??" is
the question. (And they will find 10 different ways to answer it if we let
them.) Within reason, they must be allowed to try things they think up (they're
testing a hypothesis), and have "stuff' in sufficient quantities to really see
how it works. Activities need to be open-ended, allowing for all sorts of
possibilities, and facilitated by a skillful teacher who knows how to ask the
right question or get out the right stepping stone. (These are principles of
famous educators and psychologists such as Piaget, Gardner, Fraiberg, Katz . .
. and are the fundamentals of a developmentally appropriate
curriculum.)
Our children are learning how to take risks and learning
to trust themselves (they are becoming competent.) They are learning about
responsibility (clean-up is, after all, part of the process.) They are learning
conversation, negotiation, storytelling and making needs known: they are
learning the power of the word. (They will want to read.) They are learning
about more and less and big and small and too much and not enough and how many.
They are learning that if you leave that flour and water mixture on that table
too long in the sun, why, you've invented cement!
Pure academic skills
will come in their own time, and there will be a lifetime of "school" in which
to learn them. But to learn to expect wonder around every corner and stars upon
which to swing-- that is something only a little child can do.
We are,
after all, acquainted with a parrot who can say it's A B C's.
Our email address is:
setonridgecc@bellsouth.net |
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