Curriculum

The Village Academy prides itself on being an educational institution.  For 27 years we have been curriculum-driven, from age infants through pre-Kindergarten.  Our goal is to provide your child a “jumpstart in education”. 

Classes are grouped by age as well as by developmental level. 
Class curriculum, depending on age group,  includes:

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.

Beginning with Infants, and continuing through 3s, we feature the High Reach curriculum. High Reach is a comprehensive approach to learning that addresses talking and listening, vocabulary, colors and shapes, small and large muscle development, and creative expression. It is a 12-month program, and continues through the summer session.

We also use the Letter People program:  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.

Our curriculum uses 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.

Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK)

The objectives for 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.

Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) is a state-funded program that provides 540 hours of prekindergarten education for four and year olds. There is no charge to parents for this program, and parents are free to choose their VPK provider. (There is a charge for children who remain for the full day, which is termed wrap-around.)

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.

We are now accepting enrollments for the 2008 session which begins August 25th.