Enrollment at Elbow Lane School
Enrollment is open to children 2 months to kindergarten and granted without regard to a child’s race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin or disability; and without regard to a parent or guardian’s race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin (including limited English proficiency), gender or disability. We accept subsidy in all program areas.
Elbow Lane offers:
- Language Development and Pre-Reading Readiness
- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Tadpoles communication
- Monthly Classroom Newsletter and Calendar
Elbow Lane teachers provide positive guidance and support as they create a safe, healthy, and secure environment that promotes a love for learning. Creative Curriculum is used to make learning fun and engaging with age appropriate STEAM projects seamlessly woven into everyday activities. Our classrooms are set up in learning centers, which are designed to provide children with a variety of choices.
Some of these centers include: Dramatic Play, Science, Technology, Engineering (Construction), Art, Math, Manipulatives, and Cozy Corner (Literacy). Children can choose activities which interests them and explore, practice, repeat, and invent. This encourages independence and enhances social skills.
Teachers foster children’s social and emotional development by encouraging kindness, independence and making new friends as well as using Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports in all age groups. Children learn through play and we love to provide them with countless opportunities to do so. Families are kept up to date on activities through Tadpoles.
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In all classrooms, Elbow Lane teachers provide positive guidance and support as they create a safe, healthy and secure environment that promotes a love for learning!
INFANTS/TODDLERS
Infants and Toddlers transition when they are developmentally ready, not necessarily chronologically.
- Infant Room:
2 months through 13 months Offers a nurturing and comforting environment for our babies to grow, move, explore and develop bonding relationships with their caring teachers. The daily schedule reflects each individual infant’s needs. - Young Toddlers:
14 months through 24 months - Older Toddlers:
25 months through 36 months. Toddlers have object hunger and the need to gain physical knowledge of the world they live in. We encourage their need for autonomy as they begin their exploration of the world around them. Consistency and daily routines meet their individual needs in a safe and secure environment.
PRE SCHOOL
- 3 to 4 years old
Preschool children are given developmentally appropriate opportunities to fully explore and experiment in their environment through hands-on experiences, varied centers, learning activities and play. Self-help is reinforced as well as social experiences that encourage making friends, sharing, playing appropriately with others, attentively listening and following directions.
PRE K
- 4 to 5 years old
At this stage, teachers guide children through working independently and mastering self-help skills. Emphasis is placed on social-emotional competence, responsibility, good listening skills and working cooperatively with others. Our pre-k classes prepare the students in readiness skills that make for a smooth transition to Kindergarten.