109 Ward St, Cary, NC 27511
(919) 462-3450


Curriculum Information
AsheBridge Children's Academy utilizes a variety of teaching resources to help children learn.  Teachers create their own lesson plans with learning activities that are of interest to the varying abilities of children in their classrooms. Research-validated programs including HighReach Learning, HighScope, and Creative Curriculum form the framework for many activities. 

Learning Centers

Your child's preschool classroom itself is also an invaluable teaching tool. The space has been carefully designed to delight, intrigue and inspire young learners. Each classroom is divided into Learning Centers. Each center invites children to explore and marvel at the wonders of the world. No matter which area captures their interest on a particular day, know that they are developing important skills. As children move from center to center, teachers act as a guides who will listen to ideas, applaud progress and motivate children to envision and think in new ways.

 

Here are some key examples:

Circle Time
This is where your child starts their day through meaningful experiences like storytelling, singing songs, show and tell and matching games. Children learn to express their ideas, associate the written word with the spoken word and discover their world independently.

Art
Children experience art through the freedom of touching, feeling, pulling, twisting, tearing, pasting, bending, scraping, cutting, pounding, shaping, and so much more.  They are developing a feel for forms, balance, line, color, and shape as well as gaining practice in problem solving.  They are learning about various relationships, sharpening their powers of observation, and beginning the process of logical thinking, and developing motor skills.  Art is a hands-on activity for your child.

Music
Music activities give children opportunities to use their entire bodies for learning and exploring their surroundings, build awareness by listening to the many kinds of sounds, and help children experience the release and freedom of body movement.  Children will be encouraged to test their vocal and kinesthetic abilities and to have fun while they are experimenting.  We emphasize the enjoyment of participation.

Blocks
This is an area where children can stack and count blocks to help them learn measurement, size, weight and number concepts.  They also build hand-to-eye coordination, and develop control of their wrists, hands and fingers.  They will develop problem-solving skills through trial and error.  If a block structure falls, your child might try it a different way until satisfied with the results.

Dramatic Play
We have dress-up clothes, props and child-sized furniture that invite children to make believe.  They try new careers, learn to share, make friends and express different emotions.  Children also learn life skills like turning knobs on and off or buttoning and zipping clothes.

Math
Children learn sorting and counting skills, putting materials in order and patterning.  Math is a way of finding things out, a way of problem solving. Through manipulating small materials, children will also begin to understand basic concepts such as big/little, large/small, same and different.

Science
Children have the opportunity to have hands-on, real-life activities that encourage a sense of discovery.  The activities include caring for classroom pets, age-appropriate experiments, using magnets, magnifiers, sand and water tables.