California Ivy League Prep Academy (Cal Ivy Prep) is an early learning center in Bakersfield that provides developmentally appropriate care and education for children from six weeks through age 12.
California Ivy League Prep Academy is an early learning center serving infants through school-age children. The program materials describe care from as early as six weeks up to age twelve and emphasize support for families alongside children’s developmental needs.
The center uses a play-based, hands-on approach intended to support cognitive, physical, social/emotional and creative development. Classroom work is described as developmentally appropriate and designed to build skills progressively; the pre-kindergarten program uses the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum for early writing and pre-reading skills.
Services include pick-up and drop-off to nearby schools, care during holiday breaks, and small-group lab sessions organized by age. The center describes classrooms arranged into distinct activity areas to support exploration and self-help skill development.
After-school services include homework assistance, creative arts, music, field trips, science experiments and cooking; the program also provides pick-up/drop-off to nearby schools and care during school holiday breaks.
Care begins as early as six weeks and the infant program is organized in phases with developmentally appropriate materials and activities to support early motor, social and sensory development.
Pre-kindergarten focuses on kindergarten readiness with lessons in language and literacy, creative art, science, social skills and motor development; the program uses Handwriting Without Tears for pre-writing and literacy skills.
The preschool curriculum aims to foster a positive self-image and supportive social environment using developmentally appropriate activities across physical, social/emotional, creative, cultural, language and cognitive domains.
A lab class for STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) where small groups from preschool, pre-K and school-age classrooms conduct hands-on experiments and theme-related activities.
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The toddler program emphasizes exploration through purposeful play, self-help skills and potty training, with classrooms organized into distinct areas for creativity, cognitive and motor development.
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