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"Where Children Go to Learn and Grow"
As an early learning center, our goal is to provide a safe and happy place for children where they can learn and grow physically, cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and at their own pace. We believe children learn through play and benefit from a structured, yet flexible, schedule. Using a curriculum known as The Creative Curriculum®activities will be offered through learning centers full of ways for kids to explore and investigate all areas, and to build problem-solving and critical thinking skills. Bright Start teachers supplement these experiences with large group and small group activities. For older children group meetings (circle time) with children take place daily, during which children and adults collaborate on the curriculum and ideas are exchanged. The children's dialogue is recorded and documented with photographs and art work. This curriculum gives children the tools they need to grow and develop into the leaders of tomorrow. Along with a strong emphasis on mathematics and literacy skills, our programs give children a framework they can use throughout school
More about TheCreative Curriculum®
The philosophy of TheCreative Curriculum®is that young children learn best by doing. The Creative Curriculum®is built on theories of development in young children, that all children learn through active exploration of their environment and therefore the environment plays a critical role in learning. The goal of the Creative Curriculum is to help children become independent, self-confident, inquisitive and enthusiastic learners by actively exploring their environment.
The curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development: Social/Emotional, Cognitive, Physical and Language. The planned activities for the children, the organization of the environment, the selection of toys and materials, planning the daily schedule and interacting with the children, are all designed to accomplish the goals and objectives of the curriculum and give your child a successful year in school.
The Creative Curriculum®shows teachers how to integrate learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology throughout the day. It also gives the teacher a wide range of teaching strategies-- from child-initiated learning to teacher-directed approaches-- to best respond to children's learning styles, strengths, and interests.
More about TheCreative Curriculum®
The philosophy of TheCreative Curriculum®is that young children learn best by doing. The Creative Curriculum®is built on theories of development in young children, that all children learn through active exploration of their environment and therefore the environment plays a critical role in learning. The goal of the Creative Curriculum is to help children become independent, self-confident, inquisitive and enthusiastic learners by actively exploring their environment.
The curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development: Social/Emotional, Cognitive, Physical and Language. The planned activities for the children, the organization of the environment, the selection of toys and materials, planning the daily schedule and interacting with the children, are all designed to accomplish the goals and objectives of the curriculum and give your child a successful year in school.
The Creative Curriculum®shows teachers how to integrate learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology throughout the day. It also gives the teacher a wide range of teaching strategies-- from child-initiated learning to teacher-directed approaches-- to best respond to children's learning styles, strengths, and interests.
About The Owners
Bright Start Early Learning Center is owned and operated by sisters Nicole Schuiling and Danielle Robertson. The center was opened in August 2007 because of the desire Danielle and Nicole had to fill the void for a premier childcare in the Grand Ledge / Lansing area. These women feel blessed to be able to provide the highest quality of care and education for your children.
One Hundred Languages of Children
The child is made of one hundred.
The child has a hundred languages,
A hundred hands,
A hundred thoughts,
A hundred ways of thinking,
Of playing of speaking,
A hundred always a hundred
Ways of listening
Of marvelling of loving,
A hundred joys
For singing and understanding
A hundred worlds
To discover
A hundred worldsTo invent
A hundred worldsTo dream.
The child has a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
But, they steal ninety-nine
The school and the culture
Separate the head from the body.
They tell the child:
To think without hands
To do without head
To listen and not to speak
To understand without joy
To love and to marvel only at Easter and Christmas.
They tell the child:
To discover the world already there
And of the hundred they steel ninety-nine
They tell the child:
That work and play
Reality and fantasy
Science and imagination
Sky and earth
Reason and dream
Are things that do not belong together.
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:No way.
The hundred is there.
- LORIS MALAGUZZI
The child is made of one hundred.
The child has a hundred languages,
A hundred hands,
A hundred thoughts,
A hundred ways of thinking,
Of playing of speaking,
A hundred always a hundred
Ways of listening
Of marvelling of loving,
A hundred joys
For singing and understanding
A hundred worlds
To discover
A hundred worldsTo invent
A hundred worldsTo dream.
The child has a hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred hundred more)
But, they steal ninety-nine
The school and the culture
Separate the head from the body.
They tell the child:
To think without hands
To do without head
To listen and not to speak
To understand without joy
To love and to marvel only at Easter and Christmas.
They tell the child:
To discover the world already there
And of the hundred they steel ninety-nine
They tell the child:
That work and play
Reality and fantasy
Science and imagination
Sky and earth
Reason and dream
Are things that do not belong together.
And thus they tell the child
that the hundred is not there.
The child says:No way.
The hundred is there.
- LORIS MALAGUZZI
