a school for young children

Moppets curriculum is designed to work in a building block format, using prior knowledge to learn further.  Our philosophy is children learn best by doing. Our theme-based curriculum incorporates seven learning content areas that support and gently extend the children's learning environment, ensuring children grow in all areas of development.  Learning is not just repeating what someone says, it requires active thinking and experimenting through hands-on play. At Moppets, children will create social relationships, work on physical development, language and literacy, science and math, art and creative expression as well as social studies.  ASL (American Sign Language)  is part of our curriculum in all age groups.

As children grow they gain knowledge of the world around them, teachers share the joy of learning by actively participating in child-initiated activities and play.  Teachers create a learning environment that is clean, organized and easily navigated to promote creativity and independence.  The curriculum, through teacher observation, is manipulated to suit the individual development of the class.

Our infant program is more than just daycare. Infants are cared for by knowledgeable, warm and loving caregivers. Every infant receives individual attention and personalized care to meet their needs. Infants develop literacy and language skills through story time and ASL sign language. They create works of art using handprints and footprints.  Infants work on their every expanding motor skills and play with their peers. A daily sheet is sent home each night that will show parents when a child ate, drank and diapered throughout the day. 

Our toddler program is fun and always on the move. Toddlers seem to have a never-ending amount of energy that we have them expel through the use of age-appropriate toys and a fun themed based curriculum. Our toddlers are encouraged to use their words and are always growing their ever-expanding vocabulary through the use of ASL, story time, photo cards and questions. Toddlers have daily creative time that can include arts and crafts, dancing or music depending on the day. We create learning experience through play in a safe and nurturing environment. 

Our Pre-School program is themed based. Themes are designed to be engaging, educational, challenging and fun! Teachers work on fine motor skills, and children learn to trace and write their names and the alphabet. Students have daily language and literacy time, daily ASL and learn to work and play with their peers. Pre-School children develop their phonemic awareness and learn how to match letters with sounds.  Pre-School students have daily creative expression time which can range from art, music or dance. Students have a science or math topic every day which can include activities such as number recognition, counting, weather, patterns or shapes. 

The students in our pre-k program garner the necessary skills for kindergarten readiness.   Pre-K students spend time each day working on language arts skills including phonics, word families, letter recognition and weekly sight words. Students develop their math skills by counting by 1, 2, 5, 10's and by learning the concept of addition and subtraction using manipulatives.  All Pre-K students have daily science, ASL, art, and playtime. Students are learning skills they will need to navigate a daily kindergarten routine.  Many of our Pre-K graduates leave Moppets reading, performing simple addition and subtraction, writing and, well on their way to success in school.