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Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 2
In our last blog post, we touched on a few of the reasons that introducing your child to a school setting can be so beneficial, but we were far from mentioning all of the ones that we see. In today’s blog post, we will continue to cover a few of the ways that your child…
Benefits of Introducing Your Child to School at a Young Age – Part 1
Children are being introduced to education programs at an early age, and while some may feel that this is throwing children to the fire much to early, there are plenty of benefits that we have seen in exposing children to education early on. Maybe the reason that so many people disagree with children attending school…
Common Myths Surrounding Early Childhood Education Debunked
Today we’re fact checking and debunking some of the biggest misconceptions and myths about children and early childhood education programs. Myth #1: The Achievement Gap Isn’t A Real Problem. It’s completely unreasonable to deny the existence of an obvious achievement gap in education and by doing so, it perpetuates the problem and the myth. If…
Questions Lead to Learning in Inquiry Based Classrooms
When you are looking for high-quality pre-K in the Trumbull and Bridgeport areas, schedule a tour of Strong Start Day Care to learn about our great learning center. We take children, from infants to pre-K. Our pre-K, as all our classes, uses an inquiry-based curriculum. This is a system of teaching that utilizes a child’s…
Teaching for the Future
Strong Start Early Learning Center is an Early Care and Education Center providing high-quality care for children in the Trumbull and Bridgeport area. We support emotional, physical, and cognitive growth for all the children in our care through a curriculum that is centered on early childhood development. Our curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach to teaching.…
On the Importance of Daydreaming
Here at Strong Start, we like to stay up to date on the latest thought and research about education and educational psychology, so we can better assist your children on a day-to-day basis with learning in the most effective ways. A recent article on KQED News entitled Why Daydreaming is Critical to Effective Learning, got…
Preparing To Send Your Infant To Day Care
No matter how much you try to prepare for life with an infant by reading blogs, online forums, articles, books, and listening to everyone’s advice—it’s just not possible. Life with an infant is an experience that is different for every family due to every household’s unique situations. Adjusting to life with an infant is more…
How Early Childhood Education Becomes the Foundation for a Life of Learning
Your child’s early childhood education will become the foundation of their educational experience throughout their life. That’s why we place so much emphasis on creating a positive, successful for the child in our early childhood education program in Trumbull! We want to teach young children to have a love of learning, so they can be…
Inquiry-based Learning: Asking Questions
Strong Start Child Early Care and Education is dedicated to an early childhood education that is inquiry-based because we believe that learning from the inside-out creates life-long learners that are successful problem solvers and are emotionally secure. Â Some education methods see children merely as sponges to take in information that will be used later,…
Inquiry-based Learning: Data Collection
Welcome back to our blog series on inquiry-based learning. Strong Start Early Care and Education is dedicated to providing an early childhood education that will help your child become an inquisitive-minded child who will be secure in their ability to learn and solve problems. We use an inquiry-based curriculum from the earliest ages to reach…
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