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Early learning center programs:

great start to readiness program grant award

Dear Parents,

            We are excited to announce that Genesee Academy’s Early Learning Center has been awarded the Great Start to Readiness Program (GSRP) Grant through the Genesee Intermediate District (GISD) by the Michigan Department of Education. The GSRP is a state funded program for four year old children with factors that may place them at risk like English as a second language, low income, parents’ education, etc…

            The Michigan department of education has allotted 30% of its funds to non-profit organizations with high quality early childhood programs, who meet the state requirements to apply for the grant. After two years of planning and implementation of requirements, GA's ELC then submitted the application. We are excited to announce that we have been awarded the grant!!

          We will use our current staff to teach the class and include Arabic as part of the program. I am responsible for overseeing the site. We are now accepting pre-applications for children, age four, to enroll in a FREE high quality preschool program. Please contact the main office for more information at (810) 250-7557 or email Marie at office@gaflint.org.

Jumana Jondy
Director, ELC

PRE-KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM

Developmentally Appropriate Practice is central to our classroom curriculum. Teachers in the Pre-Kindergarten room take into account how children learn, what is expected in relation to learning outcomes and experiences, and use this to make sure activities, lessons and experiences are developmentally appropriate for the children. Hands on active learning is applied to daily learning activities. The children are given opportunities to explore learning through play, the natural world, cooking, collaboration, experimentation and/or investigation on a weekly basis. They are given a variety of mediums to express themselves and demonstrate their learning and understanding through art, writing, sign language, presentations, and peer to peer teaching opportunities. Activities support the development of and assessments are centered around the following domains of development: cognitive, social emotional, language, literacy and physical.

KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM

At GA ELC we believe in challenging our kindergartners, but also realize that education goes beyond simple memorization of academic knowledge. We strongly value Developmentally Appropriate Practices and we are committed to using approaches that comply with this philosophy. Hands on active learning is applied to daily learning activities. The children are given opportunities to explore learning through play, the natural world, through cooking, collaboration, experimentation and/or investigation whenever possible and appropriate. They are given a variety of mediums to express themselves and demonstrate their learning and understanding through art, writing, projects, presentations, peer to peer teaching....

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