1900 174th St.
East Hazel Crest, IL 60429
708-433-4353
Monday – Friday: 6:30am – 6pm
*Our elective programs can, for an additional fee, introduce your child to new interests beyond the daily classroom curriculum. By using small-group dynamics, these programs give children new ways to play and explore creatively.*
Liberal arts refers to a broad academic approach that encompasses a range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. It emphasizes the development of critical thinking, analytical skills, and a well-rounded education.
In a liberal arts education, students are encouraged to explore various subjects such as literature, philosophy, history, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. The curriculum often includes courses from different disciplines, allowing students to gain a comprehensive understanding of the world and its complexities.
Liberal arts education aims to foster intellectual curiosity, creativity, and the ability to think independently. It emphasizes the cultivation of skills such as effective communication, problem-solving, and interdisciplinary thinking. This approach encourages students to develop a broad knowledge base and a deeper understanding of the human experience, society, culture, and the natural world.
Liberal arts education is often contrasted with professional or vocational education, which focuses more narrowly on specific skills or career-oriented training. Liberal arts graduates are valued for their adaptability, critical thinking abilities, and capacity to engage with complex ideas, making them well-suited for a wide range of careers and lifelong learning.
Yoga is one form of practice which includes breath control and specific body postures (asana) that provides a range of physical, spiritual and mental relaxation. It teaches children to be calm, while gaining awareness of the bodies, self control and discipline.
Benefits Of Yoga for Children
When children practice yoga it increases their confidence, builds concentration and strengthens growing bodies. For children with behavioral issues, yoga can improve their impulses in a positive direction and provides them with an outlet as a way to manage their behaviour.
Physical Benefits of Yoga
Social, Emotional and Cognitive Benefits
Our jazzercise instructor comes in to our facility and gives the children age appropriate group classes that are fun, energetic and interactive!
Music is used at thousands of preschools, childcare centers, and other early learning settings around the world. In addition to supporting children’s music development, our in-school curriculum raises the overall quality of a child’s education by touching many important factors all at once: school readiness, family engagement, parent-child relationships, and teacher professional development. When Music Together is a part of the school day, music isn’t just fun—it’s a powerful learning tool, too!
In fact, recent research has found that preschoolers who engaged in participatory group music and movement activities showed greater group cohesion, cooperation, and prosocial behavior when compared to children who did not engage in the same music activities. Singing and dancing together led to increased empathy (the ability to understand and even share in the feelings of others) for the children with whom they were making music. Even in infancy, adult-child music and movement interactions can lead to better communication and increased emotional and social coordination and connection, both rhythmically and emotionally, between the adult and the child. Researchers propose this might support infants’ earliest abilities to engage in positive social interactions with others.
Our foreign language program enriches our toddler, preschool and kindergarten children by experiencing another culture and language in a fun and relaxed setting.
According to experts, introducing children to foreign languages should begin as early as possible. For a child, the advantages and benefits of learning multiple languages at an early age are extremely valuable and continue long into adulthood. Some of the benefits include enhanced communication skills and appreciation for diversity. Children that learn a second language at an early age achieve a more native grasp of both grammar and pronunciation in the second language.
Benefits of martial arts for kids