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Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers (6 weeks - 4 years) (Hours 7:00 am-6pm Monday-Friday)
Colonial offers year-round age specific curricula developed to grow with your child and help prepare him/her for a lifetime of learning and success.
Our teachers are dedicated professionals with the training, skills, and enthusiasm to create interesting learning environments that assist children in developing a love for school. Our teachers enjoy their working environment, so they stay with us providing years of experience. All teachers are required to continuously develop and update their teaching skills with ongoing professional development.
Our staff is CPR and first aid certified. Our lead teachers are certified to teach infancy through preschool age
Before & After Care
Before Care begins at 7:00 am at this facility and Hobart Elementary School. After Care ends at 6:00 pm at this facility and William Floyd Elementary School.
Before Care Activities
The before-school program offers quiet morning activities as well as a healthy snack. Children can play quiet games, watch movies, and do arts & crafts.
After Care Activities
Our after-school program offers homework assistance and a healthy snack. Activities may include outdoor play, indoor games, arts & crafts.
Vacation Program
The vacation program is available on most school breaks, and the time in between the school year and summer camp. This program is also for school half-days and parent/teacher conference days.
Vacation Program Activities
This program offers homework assistance and a healthy snack. Activities are similar to our After Care Program and may include outdoor play, indoor games, arts & crafts.
Teaching Strategies Creative
Curriculum
The teaching strategies creative curriculum helps children become independent, self confident, inquisitive learners. The curriculum teaches them how to learn in preschool and throughout their lives. Children will learn at their own pace and in the ways that are best for them. In doing so they develop good habits and attitudes, practicing a positive sense of themselves, which will make a difference throughout their lives.
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Creative Curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development.
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Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their environment, make friends, and feel they are a part of the group.
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Emotional: To help children experience pride and self-confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.
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Cognitive: Assists children to become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.
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Physical: Helps children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.
Universal Pre-K
This is a free, 5-hour program that prepares 4 year old children for kindergarten. Before and after care is available for this program, as well.
Summer Day Camp
Summer Day Camp will run June 26th - August 18th from 7am to 6pm.
Summer Day Camp Activities
Colonial's summer day camp provides many recreational activities for children entering kindergarten through 6th grade. We offer indoor and outdoor play, water activities, field trips, arts and crafts, and even end-of-the-summer
BBQ and carnival.
We can also offer academic enrichment, if requested.
Brightwheel
We recently started using Brightwheel, a tool for classroom management, communication, photos, videos, online bill pay, and much more. Brightwheel is the industry leader in early education, proven to save time for staff, allowing for measurably more time with students, while also delivering a much better experience for parents.
Parent communication is essential and one of the core features of Brightwheel.
Our premium messaging feature is easy to use and wonderfully efficient at keeping in touch with parents throughout the day. Creating a new message is simple and can be done on the web from the messaging portal or from any room in the mobile app. All messages sent from the school will alert all parent contacts associated with the student's
QualitystarsNY
We work with QualitystarsNY. QualitystarsNY is New York State's voluntary 5-Star early childhood Quality Rating and Improvement System. Since its inception, QualitystarsNY has focused its evidence-based practices to ensure young children in participating programs have access to excellence and, their families can trust the level of quality in the programs they choose.
QUALITYstarsNY has 75 standards of excellence that fall into four categories:
Children's Learning Environment, Family Engagement, Leadership & Management, and Staff Qualifications & Experience. Assessment, coaching, professional development, and a wide range of resources are made available to each site, to earn higher star ratings. QUALITYstarsNY operates an extensive and comprehensive data system that tracks every investment in money, time, and effort to ensure accountability and to provide a greater understanding of what it takes to generate and sustain high-quality early education for young children.