The staff aims to provide a creative, happy and safe environment where preschoolers will have the opportunity to interact with peers and adults within the framework of a supervised group. They offer situations where children will become adept at following directions, expressing themselves, accepting . responsibility and developing leadership. Children are also helped to develop good manners when they talk, play and eat.
A better education has become imperative in these times. Teaches, educators, psychologists, and sociologists emphasize the essential role of an earlier education in a world in which changes are taking place at an ever increasing rate.
Most specialists in the field of education admit that an earlier education, a pre-school education, enables
children to develop the basic patterns of their future personalities and careers. Professionals in the field
of early childhood education also state that beginning with the first day of life, up to age five,
children can learn new things easier and faster than in any other period in life.
The teachers of "Le Chaperon Rouge" agree totally with these experts, and try very hard to provide within the
day care program a real "school" environment that prepares the children for elementary education. A day care
center does not have the right to waste a child's time or mind. Children do need to play, but at the same
time they need to learn and prepare for school.
When a child who has attended a pre-school is compared to one who has not, striking
differences in skills development become readily apparent, even if both had the same
intellectual potential. The child attending the day care would be more prepared for reading, better able
to color and write, able to listen due to a longer attention span, and most importantly, would be the more
cheerful and well adjusted of the two children.
Our staff consists of: a school director, assistant director, preschool teachers, elementary school teachers, French, Spanish, music, ballet, dance, karate, soccer, tennis, gymnastics instructors, on call nurse, cook, and housekeepers.
We train our teachers constantly. They all know exactly what to do every minute to deliver our concepts. Our staff and curriculum handbooks are available upon request for the parents to read and review.
"Le Chaperon Rouge" provides seven different programs: Day Care, Preschool, Before & After School Care, Summer Programs, Kindergarten, Private Elementary and Infant Care. The children are separated by age and aptitudes.
The programs include sharing experiences to gain ability in language, games to develop group participation, a structured reading and math program to introduce children to the symbols of written language, art, dancing, music, creative indoor and outdoor play, and special field trips.
Classes are small to enable teachers to give individual attention. In order to check the progress of students in the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classes, a cultural program of testing is used in addition to achievement and social tests. They are tested in the following areas:
We commit ourselves to helping your child develop these skills and traits:
