Kreating Young Minds Academy is an early learning centre in Chicago offering care and preschool education for infants through five-year-olds, organised into age-based classrooms and focused on a STEAM-based curriculum.
Kreating Young Minds Academy operates an early learning centre in Chicago serving infants through five-year-olds. Children are grouped by age into classroom levels that span infant and toddler care through pre-kindergarten.
The centre uses a STEAM-based curriculum that integrates science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics into daily, hands-on activities. Lesson plans are described as individualized and designed to develop language, cognitive, social-emotional and motor skills.
Breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks are provided with an emphasis on nutritious and organic options planned with a registered dietitian and a catering partner. Enrichment offerings include foreign language, fine arts, yoga/PE & health and a makerspace for hands-on projects. The Brightwheel app is used for daily parent-teacher communication, photos and alerts.
Staff members are screened, background-checked and fingerprinted, and the facility is licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) and approved by the City of Chicago. Health measures listed include daily health screening, enhanced cleaning protocols and smaller class sizes.
A classroom program for the youngest children that focuses on early literacy, sensory play, music and movement, and basic cognitive and social-emotional skills through age-appropriate activities.
A curriculum for two-year-olds that introduces early literacy and numeracy, sensory and gross motor activities, and STEAM-related experiences through play and guided activities.
A program for three-year-olds emphasizing self-help and self-expression, pre-writing and tracing, early math concepts, science exploration and gross/fine motor development.
A four-year-old classroom focused on phonemic awareness, reading readiness, sequencing, geometric concepts and introductory science and social studies topics.
A program for five-year-olds that develops reading comprehension, math concepts (including numbers to 100, time and money), writing and scientific exploration within a STEAM framework.
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