The Village Academy North is an educational institution; we are not a daycare. We employ professional, accredited curriculum that addresses the academic, social, emotional, and physical development of your child. For ages 6 weeks through 3 years we use the High Reach Curriculum. For VPK, we use the Houghton Mifflin Pre-K curriculum.
Classes
are grouped by age as well
as by developmental level.
Class
curriculum, depending on
age group, includes:
- Literacy
- Math/Numbers
sense
- Social
Studies
- Science
- Fine
Arts
- Social
and Emotional Development
- Physical
Development
- Health
and Safety
- Sign
Language
- Foreign
Language
- Cultural
Awareness
- Sign
Language
Infants/Toddlers
 Our
objective is to love and
care for your child in a
positive environment while
exposing him/her to a variety
of wonderful experiences
in music, art, language
and positive human interaction. We
base our program on established
brain research, which has
proven the amazing ability
of the infant brain to learn
receptively, long before
beginning to express what
he or she has learned.
Our High Reach curriculum focuses on and includes: Sign
language, active listening
and talking; and activities
to promote creativity, learning
the world around them, and
physical development. Each
child has their own IEP
(individual educational plan)
with specific developmental
goals, which teachers share
with the parents, giving
the parents progress reports
and ideas to reinforce the
learning at home.
Preschool
and Junior PreKindergarten
(2s and 3s)
Our
objective is to provide
a positive, safe, loving,
and caring learning environment
which helps your children
become independent, caring
people and motivated problem
solvers. We
expose our children to
all aspects of their world
in a fun way which excites
them and provides them
with incentives to learn.
In addition to our High Reach curriculum, we also use the Letter People program from Abrams
and Company to expose the
children to letters, numbers,
and sounds. At
this age, we create a “friendship” with
the numbers and letters and
sounds so that the children
enjoy them. That
way, learning becomes easy
and fun as they get older.
Each
child has an IEP with individual
goals and objectives, including:
Health and Safety, Social
and Emotional Development;
Physical Development, Math
and Literacy.
Pre-Kindergarten
and Voluntary Pre-K
The
objectives for 3s, 4s, and
5s is to prepare these amazing
young children for kindergarten. We
help them become positive
and self-assured young
people. We
also make sure they
possess
the foundation skills
in
reading, writing, and
math,
taught in a fun-loving
environment
which serves as the
basis
for developing their
love
of learning and life.
We
use the Houghton-Mifflin
pre-K curriculum, the same
one that kindergarten classes
in St. Johns County Schools
use. This
has the tremendous benefit
of allowing our children
to transition
smoothly into their kindergarten
class—and
being ahead of their
peers. This
curriculum allows the
children
to progress at their
own
pace, learning the sounds
the letters make and
putting
these sounds together
in
words, and the words
into
simple sentences.
All
of our teachers are
certified early childhood
teachers and all classes
over 10 children have
qualified aides. For more about our VPK program, click on the VPK selection in the main menu. |
