HighReach Learning Curriculum Overview
Our child-centric educators are adventure-architects. They help your child grow by creating exciting adventures, crafting engaging activities and sparking curiosity to ignite a sense of wonder in every child. Our proprietary HighReach Learning curriculum is based around the idea that children learn best when they are actively engaged in hands-on experiences, exploration and play.
Through a combination of structured activities and child-initiated play, we foster a love for learning and help children develop essential skills. Our curriculum is proven to give students a great start in early development and create meaningful learning opportunities. Plus, our supportive educators empower each child to embrace the world with enthusiasm and curiosity, nurturing their growth and giving them the knowledge and skills for success in school and beyond.
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Infants (Bright Baby)
Our infant program nurtures your child’s growth through a milestone-based curriculum designed by experienced educators to advance their development. Daily, research-informed practices—including reading, singing, and early communication skills with American Sign Language—support early language, motor, cognitive, and social-emotional skills in a safe and nurturing environment.
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Learning Domains
Development/Emergent Literacy
- Experiments with sounds and babbling, building language skills
- Uses voice to express feelings
- Uses speech-like sounds; may begin to say words
Mathematics
- Exhibits some sense of size, color and shape recognition of objects in immediate environment
- Understands objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen
- Stacks toys/objects
Learning About the World/Science
- Explores the world around them through their senses
- Begins to explore food with hands
- Becomes more aware of cause-and-effect relationships
Social Emotional Development
- Begins learning self-regulation and soothing skills
- Differentiates between known people and strangers
- Plays more interactively with others (peek-a-boo)
Approaches to Learning
- Focuses and reaches for objects
- Begins developing problem-solving skills
- Enjoys repetition of activities, practicing and figuring out how things work
Physical Health Development
- Rolls over, grasps with both hands and begins to sit with assistance
- Builds large muscles through crawling and standing
- Walks with adult support; may begin to walk alone
Curriculum in Action
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Toddlers (Smart Steps Academy)
Our toddler program combines a milestone-aligned, play-based curriculum with the expertise of dedicated educators to foster your child’s growing independence. We balance structured activities, outdoor time, and child-initiated exploration within an intentional environment to develop crucial communication, social, motor, and cognitive skills.
- Enhancing language development by naming objects and experimenting with sounds
- Practicing early math concepts like sorting and patterns
- Using their senses to explore the world around them
Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Uses language to communicate with others (needs, opinions, feelings, etc.)
- Shows awareness of sounds and language by playing with rhymes and singing songs
- Enjoys books and stories
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Begins to understand quantity like asking for more or comparing two groups of objects
- Understands cause and effect
- Begins to understand the concept of time, like before and after and daily schedules
Creative Expression
- Experiments with a variety of art experiences
- Participates in a variety of movement activities, like dancing with control and imitating simple body movements
- Engages in pretend play, like playing interactive games with adults or using dramatic play props
Social Emotional Development
- Demonstrates trusting attachments with adults
- Begins to cooperate with others
- Demonstrates emerging self-regulation, like self-soothing and beginning to show empathy
Approaches to Learning
- Shows curiosity about new things and new experiences
- Uses a variety of problem-solving techniques
- Shows increasing persistence when facing challenges
Physical Health and Development
- Improves fine motor coordination by manipulating materials, like stacking, building, or using writing utensils
- Improves gross motor skills and strength, like walking without help, climbing, or kicking a ball
- Builds self-help skills (eating, drinking, toileting)
Curriculum in Action
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Twos (Ready 2 Learn)
Designed by experienced educators, our program for two-year-olds channels their joy and curiosity into structured, play-based experiences that build crucial life skills. We target developmental milestones through thoughtfully planned activities—like singing, turn-taking in conversation, and exploring “why” questions—to advance language, social-emotional, cognitive, and motor skills in a warm, nurturing environment.
Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Shows awareness of sounds and language, like playing with rhymes and sings songs
- Uses communication for many purposes, like communicate wants and needs, and initiates interactions with others
- Understands how books are handled/used
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Shows increasing awareness of numbers during meaningful daily activities (counting in songs or rhymes)
- Utilizes different methods to gain information and solve problems, like using all 5 senses and manipulating objects
- Observes and describes things in the environment
Creative Expression
- Participates in a variety of musical activities through singing familiar songs or playing instruments
- Notices elements of art, like shapes, lines, and colors
- Engages in pretend play, like using one object to symbolize another (ex. Using a block as a cup)
Social Emotional Development
- Develops awareness of own feelings and those of others
- Engages in social interactions with others and participates in parallel play
- Begins to understand and follow simple rules
Approaches to Learning
- Asks questions and makes independent choices
- Tries one or two ways to solve a play dilemma, and uses repetition to discover new skills
- Attempts task for a minute of two before asking for help
Physical Health and Development
- Explores different ways to move body parts
- Makes marks with writing materials, and Uses crayons, markers, and paintbrushes with increasing control
- Shows stamina and energy during daily activities
Curriculum in Action
- Spoon: Hold the body still and rotate as if stirring.
- Eggbeater: Twirl around quickly.
- Blender: Jump up and down rapidly.
- Potato masher: Stomp feet.
- Rubber spatula: Bend and twist.
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Threes (Pre-Kindergarten Prep Academy)
Designed by passionate educators, our Pre-Kindergarten Prep Academy prepares your three-year-old for school success through expert-led instruction and milestone-aligned planning. We foster measurable growth by targeting key academic and social skills, including building sentence complexity, understanding stories, counting to 10, playing with friends, and mastering fine motor tasks like using scissors.
Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, feelings, opinions, needs, questions, and for other varied purposes
- Shows increasing ability to discriminate and identify sounds in spoken language
- Shows progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Develops increasing ability to count in sequence to 10 and beyond
- Shows increasing abilities to match, sort, put in a series, and regroup objects according to one or two attributes such as shape or size
- Begins to participate in simple investigations to test observations, discuss, and draw conclusions
Creative Expression
- Progresses in abilities to create drawings, paintings, models, and other art creations that are more detailed, creative, or realistic
- Shows growth in moving in time to different patterns of beat and rhythm in music
- Participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex, like various roles, locations, and stories
Social Emotional Development
- Develops growing capacity for independence in a range of activities, routines, and tasks
- Demonstrates increasing capacity to follow rules and routines and use materials purposefully, safely, and respectfully
- Shows progress in developing friendships with peers
Approaches to Learning
- Grows in eagerness to learn about and discuss a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks
- Grows in abilities to persist in and complete a variety of tasks, activities, projects, and experiences
- Grows in recognizing and solving problems through active exploration, including trial and error, and interactions and discussions with peers
Physical Health and Development
- Grows in hand-eye coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads, and using scissors
- Demonstrates increasing abilities to coordinate movements in throwing, catching, kicking, and bouncing balls
- Shows growing independence in hygiene, nutrition, and personal care
Curriculum in Action
- Line up dominoes by matching the patterns of dots on each end
- Count the dots on each end and then count the total number of dots
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Pre-K (Kindergarten Prep Academy)
Designed by experienced educators, our Kindergarten Prep Academy program uses milestone-based activities to build the critical thinking, academic, and social skills essential for school success. We target measurable growth in literacy, math, and science through structured, interactive activities that ensure your child masters kindergarten-readiness skills like writing their name, identifying the letters in their name, and demonstrating self-control and turn-taking.
- Literacy: Learning to associate sounds with letters, identify at least 10 letters, and write their own name.
- Math: Building skills in sorting, making comparisons, and understanding positional words like “over” and “under.”
- Science and Discovery: Participating in simple investigations, predicting results, and recording information.
- Social-Emotional Growth: Expressing confidence in their abilities, advocating for themselves, and clearly expressing their needs, likes, and dislikes.
- Physical Development: Enhancing fine-motor control with pencils and paintbrushes, developing hand-eye coordination, and growing independence in personal hygiene.
Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Uses an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary
- Develops increasing abilities to understand and use language to communicate information, experiences, ideas, etc.
- Increases in ability to notice the beginning letters in familiar words
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Begins to make use of one-to-one correspondence in counting objects and matching groups of objects
- Begins to make comparisons between several objects based on a single attribute
- Shows increased awareness and beginning understanding of changes in materials and cause-effect relationships
Creative Expression
- Progresses in abilities to create drawings, paintings, models, and other art creations that are more detailed, creative, or realistic
- Participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more complex
- Participates with increasing interest and enjoyment in a variety of music activities, including listening, singing, fingerplays, games, and performances
Social Emotional Development
- Begins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences
- Progresses in responding sympathetically to peers who are in need, upset, hurt, or angry; and in expressing empathy or caring for others
- Shows progress in expressing feelings, needs, and opinions in difficult situations and conflicts without harming themselves, others, or property
Approaches to Learning
- Approaches tasks and activities with increased flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness
- Demonstrates increasing ability to set goals and develop and follow through on plans
- Develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem
Physical Health and Development
- Progresses in abilities to use writing, drawing, and art tools, including pencils, markers, chalk, and paintbrushes
- Shows increasing levels of proficiency, control, and balance in walking, climbing, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, and galloping
- Shows growing independence in hygiene, nutrition, and personal care when eating, dressing, washing hands, brushing teeth, and toileting.
Curriculum in Action
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School Age (Young Achiever's Club)
Our Young Achiever’s Club offers a safe and well-rounded before- and after-school experience that reinforces academics through structured homework support, S.T.E.A.M. projects, and science of reading activities. We balance academic enrichment with organized sports and creative exploration to foster your child’s social-emotional growth, physical development, and confidence.
Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Identify and manipulate sounds within words
- Practice reading words smoothly by blending sounds.
- Analyze word structure and apply rules for word formation.
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Learn about comparing and contrasting to make informed decisions based on data.
- Observe and analyze interactions.
- Practice teamwork and effective communication.
Creative Expression
- Participates in various forms of art, like painting, drawing, sculpting, and creating
- Participates in increasingly more complex forms of dramatic play, like pretending to be familiar adults, making up unfamiliar scenarios, and using materials to symbolize a variety of objects
- Enjoys a variety of music and movement, possibly making up dances to familiar songs and rhythms, or writing their own music
Social Emotional Development
- Actively engage in conversations and communication
- Actively participates appropriately and cooperatively in group situations by respecting the needs of self and others.
- Shows persistence when problem solving as well as flexibility and inventiveness in thinking.
Approaches to Learning
- Demonstrates eagerness to learn about and discuss new topics, ideas and tasks.
- Works cooperatively with others to successfully achieve a goal or accomplish a task.
- Asks questions and seeks new information with assistance, looks for new information and wants to know more.
Physical Health and Development
- Develop fundamental physical fitness components, such as strength, endurance, and flexibility.
- Improve gross motor skills (e.g., running, jumping, throwing) and fine motor skills (e.g.,
hand-eye coordination, balance). - Foster a growth mindset by learning the value of setting achievable goals and persisting in their efforts to reach them.
Curriculum in Action
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School Break Care
Our School Break Care program provides a safe and dynamic experience for elementary students, balancing structured learning with memorable fun during school breaks. Through themed weeks, hands-on projects, and exciting field trips, your child will build social skills, explore new interests, and develop lasting friendships in a trusted environment.
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Learning Domains
Language and Emerging Literacy
- Experiments with sounds and babbling, building language skills
- Uses voice to express feelings
- Uses speech-like sounds; may begin to say words
Math and Science/Cognitive Development
- Exhibits some sense of size, color and shape recognition of objects in immediate environment
- Understands objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen
- Stacks toys/objects
Creative Expression
- Explores the world around them through their senses
- Begins to explore food with hands
- Becomes more aware of cause-and-effect relationships
Social Emotional Development
- Begins learning self-regulation and soothing skills
- Differentiates between known people and strangers
- Plays more interactively with others (peek-a-boo)
Approaches to Learning
- Focuses and reaches for objects
- Begins developing problem-solving skills
- Enjoys repetition of activities, practicing and figuring out how things work
Physical Health and Development
- Rolls over, grasps with both hands and begins to sit with assistance
- Builds large muscles through crawling and standing
- Walks with adult support; may begin to walk alone