Neighborhood Christian Center is a faith-based preschool and childcare program in Santa Clara, CA, serving children from infancy through early elementary transition. The center emphasizes a play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum with outdoor gardens and sustainability practices integrated into daily learning.
Neighborhood Christian Center is a faith-based early childhood center in Santa Clara that enrolls infants through children preparing for kindergarten. The program emphasizes whole-child development—physical, social-emotional, language, spiritual, and cognitive—within a play-based environment.
The center uses developmentally appropriate, research-based practices and prioritizes large blocks of uninterrupted play, open-ended materials, and teacher-guided inquiry. Curriculum materials reference California preschool learning standards and Valley Christian Schools’ Exemplary Preschool expectations, and include intentional opportunities in STEM, literacy, math, and science.
The campus includes gardens and fruit-bearing trees and integrates hands-on outdoor experiences such as planting and harvesting into the program. The center is identified as a Bay Area Green Business and as an Eco-Healthy Child Care program, and describes ongoing sustainability practices like composting and green purchasing.
The center’s pre-kindergarten classroom, emphasizing project-based learning, small-group discussions, extended play blocks, and design-thinking to prepare children for school routines and collaborative learning.
An infant room providing individualized care that follows flexible schedules aligned with family routines, focusing on sensory exploration, motor development, social-emotional growth, and early communication.
A program for older two- to three-year-olds that supports the shift from parallel to cooperative play, with open-ended play options, small-group discussions, and activities designed to promote social-emotional and cognitive development.
A combined pre-kindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten preparatory class that balances small-group instruction, extended play, hands-on enrichment, and teacher-led activities to build literacy, math, and science foundations.
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