Cal Ivy Prep is a childcare and early education center in Bakersfield that serves children from early infancy through around age 12 at a location on Stockdale Highway. The center offers classroom-based early education, before-and-after-school care, and a dedicated STEAM laboratory for hands-on science and related activities.
Cal Ivy Prep operates as an early childhood center in Bakersfield serving children from early infancy up to approximately 12 years of age. The center presents a developmental approach that covers infant care through school-age supports and provides before- and after-school services.
Instruction is described as play-based and hands-on with activities intended to support cognitive, physical, social/emotional and creative development. The program includes theme-based, age‑adapted learning opportunities and explicit lessons intended to build pre‑literacy, pre‑writing and numeracy foundations.
Offers pick-up and drop-off to nearby schools, afternoon homework help and activities, holiday break care and summer programming that includes field trips and swimming.
Care begins as early as six weeks and the infant program is organized in phases that provide developmentally appropriate activities, caregiver bonding and early motor and communication support.
Pre‑kindergarten focuses on kindergarten readiness with structured learning across language, literacy, math, science, creative arts and motor skills; the program references use of Handwriting Without Tears for early writing development.
Preschool uses a developmentally appropriate curriculum to enrich children’s skills across physical, social/emotional, creative, cultural, language and cognitive domains, including health and nutrition topics.
A lab class where small groups explore science, technology, engineering, art and math through theme-related, hands-on experiments and activities.
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The toddler program emphasizes purposeful play, self-help skills, potty training and consistent daily routines with classroom areas arranged to support creativity, cognitive and motor development.
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