Programs for our Parents

Parent University

Parent University classes started in 1987-1988 at the request of parents in our children's centers in Montgomery County, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Our parents wanted to know what magic we had that their children behaved so well and learned so much at our schools.

At first we invited parents to our weekly staff trainings. We quickly found out it's even easier to work with young children when their parents have the same skills and distinctions that our staff have!

Parent University classes have always been free to our parents as our gift for allowing us the privilige of caring for their most precious possession; their children! (Or as we say at Parent University, "their heart with legs...")

Click Here for more detailed information and a schedule of upcoming Parent University events.

Parent Helpers Club

Our Parent Helpers Club is designed to allow our parents to spend whatever time they can assisting/playing in a classroom (your child's classroom, if you wish)! You can spend a couple of hours, a half-day - whatever amount of time that works for your schedule!

Programs for our Children

The Fitness Club

The goal of The Fitness Club is to support our children in learning how to develop, maintain, and be responsible for their own health and physical well-being as early in their lives as possible. Click here for more detailed information about The Fitness Club.

TV Studio

This unique program provides a wonderful vehicle to enhance our monthly curriculum by reinforcing basic skills learning experiences. The program helps to de-mystify television for our children by using important skills such as preparation, scripting, cooperation, personal presentation and creativity, The children discover that TV is completely man-made and not necessarily accurate! Click here for more detailed information about TV Studio.

Martial Arts

Our purpose for having a Martial Arts program for our children is much more than self-defense training. When properly taught, the Martial Arts are an excellent way for young children to begin developing the life skills of self discipline, self and body control, respect for themselves and others, as well as mind and body unity. These skills learned early in life can last a lifetime. Click here for more detailed information about the Martial Arts Program.

Spanish

It is our goal to have a full-time Spanish speaking staff member in each of our Preschool and Full Day classrooms. It is the job of the teacher to speak fluent Spanish to the children every day! Click here for more detailed information about why we teach Spanish!

Life for Kids Gymnastics

By emphasizing purposeful fun and personal success through a variety of well planned activities including tumbling, vaulting, the balance beam, parallel bars, horizontal bars uneven bars, still rings, pommel horse, and other specially designed equipment, LIFE'S goal is to develop effective long term fitness attitudes, habits, skills, self confidence, and self-esteem in your child, as well as desirable fitness attributes including agility, strength, flexibility, balance, and perceptual motor coordination. Click here for more detailed information about Life for Kids.

Minds in Motion

One very exciting aspect of our Prekindergarten classroom is our Minds in Motion Program. Children travel to other classrooms to engage in specific activities in one or more of the following areas:

• Community Service - Children actively engage in projects intended to increase their awareness of their community and its inhabitants.
  
  
• Theater Arts - Self esteem building and creative expression is encouraged through pantomime, role playing, dancing, and production of short plays. The history of the theater and its players are also explored.
  
  
• Geography and Cultures - Discovery of the wide world through introductions to international foods, customs, land forms, and mapping play. Investigation of the United States also.
  
  
• Environmental Issues - Exploration and observation of the natural world around us. Discovery of how people, animals, and the earth interplay with one another.