Our Curriculum

INFANT/TODDLER (Birth - 3 years old)

  • Provide a safe, engaging, and nurturing environment for the child

  • Promote trust in themselves and their world

  • Develop confidence in their emerging abilities

  • Develop gross motor coordination, fine motor skills, and language skills

  • Offer opportunities to gain independence in daily tasks

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PRIMARY (3 - 6 years old)

  • Foster the growth of functional independence, task persistence, and self-regulation

  • Promote social development through respectful, clear communication and safe, natural consequences

  • Contain a large variety of materials for the refinement of sensory perception and the development of literacy and mathematical understanding

  • Offer opportunities for imaginative exploration leading to confident, creative self-expression

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ELEMENTARY (7 - 12 years old)

  • Offer opportunities for collaborative intellectual exploration in which the child’s interests are supported and guided

  • Support the development of self-confidence, imagination, intellectual independence, and self-efficacy

  • Foster an understanding of the child’s role in their community, in their culture and in the natural world

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We offer a mixture of Montessori and traditional education methods. Each space offers age-appropriate activities to guide the process. Children who work in groups and individually to discover and explore the world's knowledge can reach their maximum potential.

Our curriculum is considered to be temporal. However, Sammie’s Sunshine Academy integrates a faith-based educational approach to our program. Every material supports an aspect of child development, creating a spark between the child’s natural interests and the available activities at hand.

Your children will be able to learn through their own experiences and at their own pace. This will increase their natural curiosities and build a solid foundation that lasts a lifetime.

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Education should be self-directed with hands-on learning.

In our classroom, children make creative choices in their learning.