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Our Program

Curiosity and Community

Quarks Academy serves families in our community with children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.  

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Research has shown us there's a big difference between memorizing and understanding. Our curriculum focuses on nurturing your child's natural sense of inquiry rather than rote memorization. This is how we create life-long learners. By using personalization during instruction and a learn through play approach, we relate lessons to the real world around us leading to greater knowledge retention. 

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While language arts has typically dominated early childhood education, we believe even our youngest learners can engage in meaningful scientific exploration. Our goal is to demystify science and make our students realize that everything they do and everything they see IS science…we are already scientists!

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As part of our STEAM-principled curriculum, we embrace technology as a powerful teaching tool in the classroom. Technology is simply the way of the future so we seek to teach healthy screen habits from the start. We use Promethean ActivPanel smartboard technology in our 3-5 year old classrooms which enhances the traditional learning experience in an impactful way. It allows us to craft multimedia lessons, go on virtual field trips, play interactive games, and it gives our teachers opportunities to dive deeper into topics than planned when students are highly engaged in a lesson.

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Our professional chef prepares fresh, kid-approved lunches as well as morning and afternoon snacks in our campus commercial kitchen. Music, engineering, dance, and meditation are just a few of our rotating extracurricular activities that will provide new interests for your child to discover.

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6 weeks - 1 Year

At this stage in development, we work with parents to co-create a rhythm that works best for each unique family. Our youngest learners will focus on activities such as:

  • Tummy time and reaching activities

  • Rolling to crawling to walking

  • LOTS of cuddles and love

  • Recognition of faces and sounds

  • Sensory bin play

  • Outdoor play and exploration

  • Transitioning to solid food

  • Story time, music, art

  • Early sign language

  • Singing and sound making

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1 - 2 Years

Newfound mobility opens an exciting new world of possibilities at this age! We provide a safe and supportive environment for your child to start exploring the world around them. We will be focusing on:

  • Identifying self and others  

  • Sharing and taking turns 

  • Sensory play and exploration

  • Walking, running, jumping, tossing

  • Colors, shapes, numbers, ABCs

  • Outdoor play and exploration

  • Table eating and self-feeding

  • Story time, music, art

  • Sensory activities

  • Early sign language

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2 - 3 Years

At this stage, we begin building the social-emotional skills to self-regulate the big feelings that sometimes accompany this stage in development. Other important concepts include:

  • Identifying self likes and dislikes

  • Building friendships

  • Counting and recognizing numbers

  • Clean up messes / put things in place

  • Potty training and personal hygiene

  • Table eating and manners

  • Exploring conflict resolution

  • Arts and crafts

  • Music, dance, PE

  • Sensory play and exploration

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3 - 4 Years

During this exciting transition out of toddlerhood, we nurture your child's emerging sense of independence without losing sight of the understanding that we're all part of the same whole. As a class micro-community, we explore:

  • Imagination and creative play stations

  • Using and caring for technology

  • Drawing and tracing

  • Beginning math concepts

  • Letter recognition and identification

  • Learning to self-dress

  • Identify and react to feelings

  • Music, dance, nutrition and health

  • Kindness and community

  • Caring for our classroom

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4 - 5 Years

At this stage in your child's development, we begin to shift the focus to kindergarten preparation in a more traditional classroom setting. Key concepts we will be focusing on include:

  • Recognizing letters and sounds

  • Writing letters, numbers and name

  • Applying math concepts to home life

  • Using and caring for technology

  • Observing and making predictions

  • Helping out around the house

  • Contributing to a community

  • Music, PE, engineering, theater arts

  • Interactive free play

  • Self regulation and awareness

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Transitional Kindergarten

Developed for our students that miss the kindergarten cutoff, this class focuses on getting a head start on the traditional kindergarten curriculum. 

  • Phonological awareness and foundational reading skills

  • Sight word recognition

  • Writing practice

  • Further study of scientific principles

  • Interactive Promethean board lessons

  • Pattern recognition

  • Beginning addition, subtraction, measuring and data collection

  • Music, PE, engineering, soccer

  • Resolving conflict independently

  • Working cooperatively and independently

  • Nurturing positive peer relationships

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Other Services

We know how busy life can be and we're here to help with these additional services.

  • Parents' Morning Out (Saturday)

  • Access to our Quarks library to checkout books to read at home

  • Sitter list for after-hours care 

  • Haircuts

  • Book fairs

  • Chef prepared take home meals

  • Parent education resources

  • School portraits

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