Neighborhood Christian Center is a faith-based preschool and childcare program in Santa Clara serving children from six weeks through entering first grade with play-based, developmentally appropriate early education.
Neighborhood Christian Center offers child care and early education for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and early elementary-age children. The program integrates faith-based learning with play-based, developmentally appropriate practices and emphasizes social-emotional, physical, language, and environmental learning.
The program uses a mix of purchased and in-house curriculum and emphasizes child-led exploration supported by teacher-guided experiences. Instructional elements mentioned include emergent learning, story and language activities, hands-on STEM opportunities, and teacher-facilitated small-group work. Classrooms are arranged to provide long, uninterrupted blocks for play and inquiry.
The program described as NCC’s Pre-K class, focusing on project-based learning, small-group discussion, extended play blocks, and activities to build school readiness and self-help skills.
An infant classroom providing individualized care and flexible routines that mirror home feeding and napping schedules, focusing on sensory exploration, gross motor development, social-emotional growth, and early communication.
A classroom for older two- to older three-year-olds that supports the transition from parallel to cooperative play, with open-ended play options, small-group discussions, and adaptive classroom design.
A mixed pre-K/transitional-K/Kindergarten classroom combining small-group instruction, hands-on enrichment, extended play, and differentiated learning to develop literacy, math, science thinking, and social-emotional skills.
A program for two- to three-year-olds that emphasizes autonomy, social-emotional development, collaborative play, language growth, music, art, and outdoor time.
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