AURORA EARLY LEARNING CENTER

The Aurora Early Learning Center is housed in a new 22,000 ft² state-of-the-art, environmentally sustainable building featuring spacious classrooms lined with windows and filled with natural light.

Individualized Learning
Staff members team with families to create learning goals for children to prepare them for kindergarten and plans daily experiences based on these goals.

Healthy Lifestyles
The center’s unique Healthy Lifestyles curriculum helps children develop healthy routines and activities, emphasizing proper nutrition, daily exercise and protecting our environment by recycling, reducing and reusing. We cook on-site, allowing us to serve healthier food and cater to children’s taste preferences. The center contains a garden where children are able to plant, care for, and harvest vegetables and flowers. The center also provides services such as free museum passes and exercise classes.

Parent & Family Engagement
Formal parent-teacher conferences are scheduled twice a year and frequent, fun and educational family nights are planned throughout the year. A family resource room provides a space for families to use a computer, meet with teachers or counselors and read materials about child development and parenting.

We accept child care subsidies!
Through the CCAP program, we work with families to provide premier child care services at a reduced rate depending on income and additional criteria. For additional information visit our page on the Child Care Assistance Program. To find out if your family meets the criteria for a child care subsidy, contact our center director.

What The Parents Are Saying

“The center has helped my son’s physical and mental development. He loves his teachers, and they give me daily reports about what he did or didn’t do. I’m here at work all day, and I don’t worry about him at all.”

“I am really happy. I feel so comfortable going to work and seeing that my kids stay happy.”

“The reason I chose Aurora Early Learning Center is because they have friendly staff, are always helpful, it’s a clean facility and they have flexible hours. I’m very happy I have the chance to enroll my son in the center.”

“I’ve seen improvements in my children’s social skills since they started at the center.”

“I’m happy that the center is a healthy environment for my son and has healthy eating habits.”

Meet Our Director

Email Me @ kplayer@onehopeunited.org

January

Consumer surveys

February

Friendship Week/Parent- Child Activity Night

March

Healthy Foods Parent-Child Activity Night

April

Week of the Young child events—invite community members

Blue Ribbon activities—everyone wear blue and fundraising

May

Celebration of Progress for our children entering kindergarten

Teacher appreciation week-cook out

Raffle off summer items for parents (sprinkler, water shoes, sun glasses, bubbles etc)

Parent-Child Activity Night –work on the garden (planting or making items)

June

Summer school age program begins

Fruit and ice cream social organized by the school age group

Family Dental visits the Center for check –ups

Open House recruitment for new families

July

In-house field trips

Family Picnic

August

In-house field trips
Parent-Child Activity Night (focus on healthy eating)

September

Open House recruitment for new families
Orientation for new families

October

Curriculum Night
Fall Harvest celebration
Read for the Record Day (May be in Sept for 2013)

November

CVision and hearing screening
Parent-Child Activity Night (focus on healthy eating)
Clothing exchange for parents
Raffle off toys for parents

December

Winter Celebration Parent-Child Activity
Agency holiday gifts