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| Address: | 111 North Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, CA 94598 | | Mailing Address: | Civic Arts Education, PO Box 8039, Walnut Creek, CA 94596 | | Phone: | (925) 943-5842 | | Fax: | (925) 988-9907 |
Class Information, Fee Schedules & Registration Inquiry FormsWe have openings in our School Year 2009-10 Program!School Year 2009-10 Registration Information
Fine Arts Preschool The Fine Arts Preschool is a developmental early childhood program using an integrated curriculum of visual art, music, movement, and dramatic activities as a base for meaningful, experiential and creative learning. The program provides a safe, nurturing environment that promotes the social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development of each child.
We offer two programs during the year. Our school year program will be in session from September 2, 2009, through June 4, 2010. We also offer a summer session. There is a ten-week session for the Toddler class and two five-week sessions for the Young Preschool and Preschool. Program Goals -
To enhance a positive self-image, a sense of self-worth and self-direction. -
To provide appropriate learning experiences through play and the integration of arts through a balance of teacher directed and self-directed activities that will contribute to the needs of children in all areas of development: socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively. -
To provide meaningful experiences for the children as a basis for developing learning skills and concepts. -
To recognize every child as being "unique", valuing their emerging ideas and individual efforts, along with their need to learn, explore and discover at their own pace. -
To facilitate learning in an environment in which children are free to learn through concrete experiences and take responsibility for their own choices. -
To foster responsibility, respect, empathy, and care for the environment. -
To value the diversity of the community we serve and maintain open communication and understanding with the families in our community. Curriculum Ours is a sequential age-appropriate curriculum using the visual arts, music, movement, and dramatic activities to develop creativity. For example, within our visual art curriculum we will use glazed clay, painting, drawing, building, and assembling to develop hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills, in addition to shape and color recognition. Moving to music and inventing dances, counting out the number of beats, and listing to patterns encourage listening and early number recognition skills. Animated story time, creative dramatics, and puppets promote imagination, language, and social skills. Children are exposed to a wide variety of resource materials for art, drama, movement, and music.
Class Information and Fee Schedule - School Year 2009-2010 | Toddler Program | Ages 2 to 3 years | Tuition | | MW am | 8:35 am to 11:35 am | $2,520 tuition per school year ($280/mo. Sept-May) | | T/TH am | 8:35 am to 11:35 am | $2,520 tuition per school year ($280/mo. Sept-May) | | | | | Toddler/Young Preschool | Ages 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 years | Tuition | | MW pm | 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm | $2,142 tuition per school year ($238/mo Sept-May) | | Young Preschool | Ages 2 3/4 to 3 3/4 years | Tuition | | T/TH am | 8:35 am to 11:35 am | $2,142 tuition per school year ($238/mo. Sept-May) | | T/TH pm | 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm | $2,142 tuition per school year ($238/mo. Sept-May) | | Preschool | Ages 3 3/4 to 4 3/4 years | Tuition | | MWF am | 8:35 am to 11:35 am | $3,276 tuition per school year ($364/mo. Sept-May) | | MWF pm | 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm | $3,276 tuition per school year ($364/mo. Sept-May) | Program Calendar - School Year 2009-2010 | 8/27/09 | Mandatory Parent Orientation, 6:30-7:30pm | | 9/1/09 | Drop-In for New Families, 10:30am-12:00 Noon | | 9/2/09 | 2009-10 School Year begins | | 9/7/09 | No classes - Labor Day | | 11/11/09 | No classes - Veteran's Day Holiday | | 11/25-27/09 | No classes - Thanksgiving Holidays | | 12/21/09 | No classes - Winter Holidays begin | | 1/4/10 | Classes Reconvene | | 1/13/10 | 2010-11 Enrollment Forms available | | 1/18/10 | No classes - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday | | 2/15/10 | No classes - Presidents' Day Holiday | | 4/5-9/10 | Spring Break | | 5/31/10 | No classes - Memorial Day Holiday | | 6/4/10 | School Ends - Family Festival | Current Student Information
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