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| Canyon Rim Children's Center has four classrooms, each
providing programs tailored to those child's
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Frog Class |
Caterpillar Class |
Fish Class |
Butterfly Class |
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At Canyon Rim Children’s Center
the emphasis is on the two words “Children’s Center”. We are
here for children. A child will learn while here, but they
will also get dirty. At Canyon Rim we make learning fun. As
Bob Keeshan a.k.a. “Captain Kangaroo” once said, “Play is
the work of children. It’s serious stuff and if it’s properly
structured in a developmental program, children can
blossom.” It is just such an environment that exists
at Canyon Rim Children’s Center. Since it’s founding in 1998,
Canyon Rim has provided a full day, year round, enrichment
program for children ages 2 through 6. Developmentally
Appropriate Practices, as well as, a curriculum inspired by
preschools in Reggio Emilia, Italy, provide the framework for
our day-to-day program. We recognize that each child is
a unique person with individual patterns and rates of
growth. A Canyon Rim teacher's responsibility is to
assist each and every child in growing to his/her full
potential. The goal is to meet each child's individual
emotional, social, cognitive and physical needs in a relaxed,
loving environment, free from personal criticism and excessive
competition. Activities are fashioned that facilitate
transition from one developmental stage to the next. These
include art, music, math, language, science, dramatic play,
fine and gross motor
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At Canyon Rim, children are
encouraged to develop habits of observation, questioning, and
listening. A Canyon Rim child learns to make choices.
They do not always have to conform so long as he or she stays
within the limits of consideration for other people and
things. The structured, yet open-ended program prepares
each child to utilize his or her intellectual and creative
abilities in future learning tasks. We know that learning is a
life long experience. Here we work to give each child the
tools and the foundation on which to build a lifetime of
learning.
We strive to
maintain class ratios lower than is required by state
licensing. The ratios here are 4 to one for the two year
olds; seven to one for the older twos and younger threes;
eight or nine to one for the three and half to four and a half
year olds; and ten or eleven to one in the pre-kindergarten
class. Lead teachers are required to have at least an
associate degree in child development. Many of our teachers
hold baccalaureate degrees in addition to the required child
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