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All day adventures. All summer long.® At Kiddie Academy of Apopka® we aim to make your child’s summer as educational as it is fun. Our CampVenturesSM program and curriculum do exactly that through themed events, activities and trips. From preschool through elementary school, your child will enjoy playing developmentally appropriate games. Throughout the summer we reinforce what your child has learned in school. With CampVentures, your child’s ordinary summer vacation is transformed into a fun and strong foundation for the future. Life Essentials® is Kiddie Academy’s proprietary, developmentally appropriate curriculum and supporting programs, methods, activities and techniques that help better prepare children for life. Life Essentials gives your child a happier, healthier, more well-rounded foundation for the future. In other words, what children learn at Kiddie Academy will help to prepare them for school and for life. Kiddie Academy’s CampVentures turns your child’s ordinary summer vacation into a summer of exploration. Our program inspires imagination through exciting activities, field trips and special visitors, while balancing the individual needs and interests of each child in our care. CampVentures awakens a world of fun, learning and friendships for your child.

Standards and NAEYC Accreditation

high-quality program will provide a safe and nurturing environment while promoting healthy development for young children.

Congratulations!
You have chosen a program for your child that is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). For over 30 years, families have relied on NAEYC Accreditation to ensure that high quality education and care are provided in programs for young children.
To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

What is NAEYC Accreditation?
Early childhood programs accredited by NAEYC Accreditation of Early Learning Programs have voluntarily undergone a comprehensive process of internal self-study and continuous quality improvement.
To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

What does high-quality mean for an early childhood program?
A high-quality program will provide a safe and nurturing environment while promoting healthy development for young children. NAEYC-Accredited programs demonstrate their quality by meeting the 10 NAEYC Early Learning Program Standards, which are research-based best practices for young children’s development and learning. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

These standards were created with input from experts and educators from around the country. The standards define what NAEYC—the world’s largest organization of early childhood professionals—believes all early learning programs should provide. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

According to these standards, all NAEYC-Accredited programs must: To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

1. Promote positive relationships for all children and adults to encourage each child’s sense of individual worth. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

2. Implement a curriculum that fosters all areas of child development: Cognitive, emotional, language, physical, and social. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

3. Use developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching practices. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

4. Provide ongoing systematic, formal, and informal assessment tools to provide information on children’s learning and development. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

5. Promote the nutrition and health of children and protect children and staff from illness and injury. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

6. Employ and support a teaching staff with the educational qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children’s learning and development and to support families’ diverse needs and interests. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

7. Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with each child’s family to foster children’s development in all settings. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

8. Establish relationships with and use the resources of the children’s communities to support the achievement of program goals. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

9. Provide a safe and healthful physical environment. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

10. Implement policies, procedures, and systems that support stable staff and strong personnel, and fiscally responsible program management so all children, families, and staff have high-quality experiences. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

NAEYC Accreditation is awarded for a five-year term. During that period, programs submit annual reports documenting that they are consistently meeting the NAEYC program standards. All NAEYC-Accredited programs are also subject to unannounced visits by skilled and reliable NAEYC program assessors to ensure that they continue to meet the standards. To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

To verify a program’s accreditation, please visit www.naeyc.org.

For more information about the standards and NAEYC Accreditation, visit naeyc.org/academy.