Our goal is educate children through a fun, yet educational processes that will enable them meet the challenges of our global world. We encourage them to use all their senses, feelings and to portray their full intellectual capabilities. We present them with many challenging activities that will help them cultivate their curiosity and awareness. We help your children prepare for the future while allowing them to be children.

Play is a very important part of learning. We create special activities that develop physical and mental coordination and growth. Play is not as simple as it sounds. Our program of play develops the ability to invent, imagine, organize, test and discover. It is the best way to learn important cognitive skills and concepts. It is also a way in which the children learn to share, cooperate and empathize with others. They learn to create and sustain relationships, which is also imperative in order to be socially fit.

We create an atmosphere where learning is fun and educational. This gives the children a positive outlook on future learning. Love and caring for others is also emphasized. With these elements the children learn to become self-confident, self-reliant and competent adults.

• We make learning fun!!
• We try to enforce language skills
• We teach numbers and shapes
• We work with children to help them play as a group
• We try to help them be kind to their friends and to share
• Children learn to express themselves through dance and games
• Children learn to work with crafts

Our Philosophy

 Our Children Are the Future!

We believe the first years of a child's life are the most important in the child's development.

These are the years your child will acquire the values and the joy in learning which will lead him toward a productive and happy life.

 We welcome the opportunity to help your child achieve his/her full potential.

We believe teachers, parents and children need to aid in the children’s growth and development by building a strong bond through communication and working as a team.

We feel children should be allowed to experiment and be provided with the opportunity to explore and create in a safe and healthy environment.

We believe in encouraging and praising children to inspire them to think for themselves, allowing them to draw their own conclusions.

We understand that when children play everything relates to the real world, therefore for children, playing is learning.

We encourage children to be kind, fair, and to share.

We believe by providing a safe, clean, loving environment we show the children to they are loved, valued, and wanted.

We also believe that by keeping the teachers happy they will stay longer, being able to create a strong bond and trust with the children.

We strive to maintain the highest quality childcare.

We aspire to make a difference in the lives of the children, families, employees, and in the community we serve.

We are dedicated to the safety and future of all children.

We always value the rights of the children by giving them one on one attention and listening to them. We make sure we get to their level and talk with them rather than at them.

We are committed to every child and family at our center.

We aim to enrich everyone’s life that we are in contact with including the children, parents, and staff.

We believe in providing age appropriate activities for the children in all areas of learning.

Our Goals

· Each child to develop an understanding of themselves and others.
· Each child to develop emotionally, socially, physically, culturally, and cognitively.
· Each child to gain independence, confidence, and responsibility.
· Each child to develop an active and positive approach to life.
· Each child to develop a sense of well being.
· Each child to develop relationships with the staff based on trust, love, and respect.

Our Mission

Sunnyside Up Pre-school Academy provides a fun, loving, creative environment. Our common purpose is to daily enhance the lives of the children and families we serve. We strive to support children’s growing independence and build confidence to achieve their full potential.

• Small classes
• Smaller teacher child ratios
• Qualified Teaching Staff
• Character Education

In our preschool classrooms, we offer a developmentally age and stage appropriate curriculum by using the creative curriculum and active learning series all of which emphasis  a variety of hands-on activities in order to teach to all of the learning styles -- visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic.
The preschool curriculum is designed with some very important goals in mind. First the curriculum needed to encompass the following components:

• To teach to multi-levels within the same class - challenging and stimulating all.
• To teach to all learning styles - auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthetic.
• To be non-sexist in our format
• To present a multicultural program by offering experiences that draw from many cultures in our world.
• To teach to the nature of the young child.

Second, our curriculum needed to fulfill the school's philosophy, allowing for maximum creativity on the part of our staff, as well as the children. We especially wanted children to leave Sunnyside Up childcare center with two tools to carry with them throughout their formal education. One tool is the attitude that all discovery/learning is exciting and fun; the other tool is a positive "can-do" attitude that translates into healthy self-esteem. These tools form the foundation for success in school.