"Continuing a Legacy of Providing Quality Pre-Kindergarten Education & Care to the Youth of Vermilion Parish"
Learning Through Play:
- Music, art, and craft projects
- Hands-on activities and field trips
- Shape, color, and number recognition
- Phonics, sight words, handwriting, and storytelling
- Simple math and writing
- Self-help skills, independence, and responsibility
- Making friends, sharing, feelings, and decision making
- Classroom technology
We follow the Vermilion Parish School Board calendar. The center is open August through May, 7:00 am–4:30 pm, Monday–Friday. We are closed on major holidays and for the month of July. Summer camp runs for 4 weeks in June. Closures include Independence Day, Labor Day, Fall Break, Thanksgiving, Winter Break, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Mardi Gras break, Spring Break, and Memorial Day.
Curriculum: We follow Louisiana’s Early Learning and Development Standards in five areas: approaches to learning, cognitive development, language and literacy, physical development, and social-emotional development. Children get music, art, computer activities, pre-reading, pre-writing, and math readiness in a play-based setting. The program is built around observation, questioning, and listening, and it gives children room to notice and express their feelings.
Extra-curricular activities and field trips: We plan activities and field trips through the year, including a fire department visit, Easter picnic, backyard party, Christmas party, Thanksgiving play, and Vermilion Parish Library book readings. The St. Jude Trike-a-Thon and Christmas raffle raise money for classroom equipment and center improvements.
Enrichment activities are hands-on and project-based, so children stay engaged and use what they are learning.