A.J.U.S.D.#43 - The Early Learning Center Daycare is a district-run early childhood center in Apache Junction that serves children from toddler age through preschool and operates programs supporting kindergarten readiness and school-age before-school care.
The Early Learning Center is part of the local school district and provides early-childhood programs for young children, plus before-school care for school-aged students. Programming emphasizes hands-on, play-based learning and social-emotional development to prepare children for kindergarten.
The center hosts a Special Education Preschool with certified preschool teachers and specialized professionals supported by instructional aides; that program uses a developmental-screening process to determine enrollment and meets multiple days per week for short sessions. The center accepts Arizona DES child-care assistance for eligible families and maintains a lunch program with a published menu.
The Toddler Program promotes language development, socialization, and motor skills in a child-driven setting.
Pre-K programming emphasizes cooperative play, early literacy and numeracy skills for three- and four-year-olds to support kindergarten readiness.
A structured pre-academic curriculum that focuses on readiness skills including writing, language and literacy, and numbers and math, using hands-on exploration and manipulatives.
Before-school care offering supervised social activities and team-building, with transportation to students' elementary schools on school days.
Preschool sessions focused on school-readiness skills and routines, offered in morning and afternoon sessions across multiple weekdays.
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A developmental program that includes art, music, motor, pre-literacy and readiness activities, staffed by certified preschool teachers and instructional aides; enrollment is determined by developmental screening.
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