Summer Program Winners!

We are more than proud to announce our most recent honor! AoILV won the award for Best Summer Program at our conference! We implemented a "Brain, Body, Balance" approach that focused on balancing social/emotional and physical development through playful learning! We incorporated weekly yoga classes, professional art classes, and we grew our own food in our garden! 

The preschool world can be a busy place with decor demands, lesson planning, and checklists so we wanted to slow the pace, scale back and become more efficient in our approach. We had an amazing summer! 

Come by to meet our amazing staff!

Investigations

We have recently installed investigation areas around the center and the children are loving exploring each area with unlimited imagination! 

Outdoor Music! 

Loose Parts Outdoor Station! 

Recipe Center! 

We encourage learning through self exploration and play to develop the whole child. Come by for a visit and see the centers for yourself! Now enrolling!

We have cucumbers!

The kids were so excited to show me the cucumbers that they grew in our garden! They have watered and nurtured these beauties all summer! We tried them and they were tasty! 

Preschool gardening teaches so many things... responsibility, science, respect for the Earth, teamwork, patience and confidence. We have loved watching the littles tend the garden each day!

Homemade Curriculum

Our learning approach encourages the use of homemade items that spark creativity, brain to body connection, and inspire focus. Below are a few ways we teach with repurposed materials!

Repurpose those paper towel and toilet paper rolls into homemade manipulatives!

And check out these cardboard interlocking shapes!

Letter recognition puzzle with styrofoam cups! 

What are some ways you have repurposed learning?

Birthday Celebrations

We love to celebrate our littles in many ways! Our Toddler One class celebrated a birthday in style last week. We sure do love our friends! Happy Birthday, sweet boy! Looking forward to many more with you and your family! 

Oh The Places You'll Go!

We had a bittersweet night this past Friday night. We celebrated our PreK graduating class! Their performance demonstrated all that they learned for the duration of their time with us with the award winning Get Set for School curriculum. Not only did their academic success shine, their confidence did as well! There wasn't a hint of stage fright in sight! We couldn't be more proud! We will miss each of you and we know you'll be a success in all you do! 

AoILV Class of 2016! 

POW! WHAM! ZING!

Our 5th Annual Superhero Day at AoILV was a success!! We had food trucks, bounce houses, a training course, giveaways, Superhero guests, sketch artists, train rides, a dance party, the mystery machine, and The Humane Society of Sumner County even joined us with a few superpups this year! If you weren't there, you should have been!