About Panther's Den Learning Center

A PLACE FOR LOVE, FAITH, AND LEARNING!    
​We believe that every child who needs childcare should have a place of love, faith, and learning. Children in our care will form loving relationships with caring staff as they wonder, discover, and interact with other children. We believe that problem-solving helps a child's positive self-image, so we will encourage children to try to figure out solutions according to their developmental abilities. We also believe that every child is a unique creation of God and we will strive to treat each child as an individual.
    Our program makes use of many play and learning materials that help children gain confidence in their abilities. We promote creativity, teamwork, self-control, and self-expression. Our curriculum will focus on early literacy skills, early science and math experiences, music and art exploration, motor skills, and self-care skills.

​KEY FEATURES OF OUR PRE-K CHILDCARE PROGRAMS 

​With mind, body and developmental skills growing at a rapid pace, a child is excited to learn more! Our programs are designed to keep up with a child’s boundless need to absorb information and develop new skills. We provide each child with the environment, nutrition, safety, and tools they need to keep their active minds growing and learning.

Knowing your child is safe is crucial to your peace of mind

SAFETY

• Clean Classrooms: Include a personal place for each child’s belongings, organized learning centers, disinfected toys and play areas, and child-sized sinks for washing hands
• Certified Teachers in: Infant/Child and Adult CPR, and First Aid
• Safety Guard on Door Hinges: Our doors are padded at the hinges so that little fingers don’t get pinched when doors are opened and closed between classrooms
• Regular Drills for: Tornado, fire, hurricane and school lock-down

​Secure environments provide additional monitoring

SECURITY

• Electronic Security: Coded entries so only authorized visitors may enter the facilities
• Hiring Process: All staff undergo extensive state-mandated background checks
• Front Desk: Our front desks are always staffed so that watchful eyes are supervising each facility, ensuring authorized entries only
• Security Cameras: Every classroom in our facilities has security cameras that are monitored at the front desk. The owners and staff can easily observe classroom activities throughout each day. Families can login to a secure, password-protected website to check in on their child periodically

​Proper nutrition serves as fuel for growing bodies AND minds

​MEALS

• Children eat all meals together using family-style seating in our kid-friendly café
• Teachers monitor all eating times
• Meals are prepared in our kitchen
• Each day, our in-house chef prepares nutritious meals that exceed USDA guidelines
• All allergies are documented and kept in the front offices with administrators
• Our schools are nut-free zones

DAILY ACTIVITIES IN OUR PRE-K CHILDCARE PROGRAMS

Our programs emphasize the development of every aspect of rapidly growing Pre-K students through our whole-child approach! We facilitate Brain/Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Physical and Behavioral Development, while aiding in the enhancement of communication, language and literacy skills.

BRAIN & COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT At the successful conclusion of our Pre-K Program, each child will:

• Understand and describe relationships using quantity and number; and communicate about distance, weight, and dimensions
•  Sort, order, classify and create patterns
• Explore spatial relationships; understand shape concepts; and use mathematical problem solving
• Demonstrate scientific inquiry skills and communicate scientific ideas clearly
• Demonstrate understanding of family, and their own culture and ethnicity, geography, and community economics
• Participate in dance, visual arts, voice and drama while exploring the use of instruments and objects to express creativity
• Demonstrate awareness of cause and effect; use prior knowledge to build new knowledge; demonstrate problem-solving skills

SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lasting friendships are formed daily

With the aid of our highly skilled teachers, each child will:

• Develop self-awareness
• Engage in self-expression
• Demonstrate strategies for reasoning and problem-solving
• Increase capacity for self-control
• Develop relationships with adults
• Develop relationships with peers

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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Playtime helps kids develop a healthy attitude towards wellness

Through a blend of engaging activities both inside and outside of the classroom, each preschooler will:

• Practice safe, healthy habits
• Participate in activities related to nutrition
• Demonstrate an awareness of the body in space and its relationship to objects in space
• Use senses to explore the environment and process information
• Demonstrate gross motor skills
• Demonstrate fine motor skills

BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT
Engaging activities encourage imaginations to flourish

Before moving on to kindergarten, we’ll ensure that each child:

• Demonstrates initiative and self-direction
• Demonstrates interest and curiosity
• Sustains attention to a specific activity and demonstrates persistence
• Engages in a progression of individualized and imaginative play
• Demonstrates a cooperative and flexible approach to play

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE & LITERACY
The art of expression is vital to a child’s development

By the successful conclusion of our Pre-K Program, each child will:

• Listen to conversations for a variety of purposes and demonstrate comprehension
• Acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories, and/or books
• Use nonverbal communication for a variety of purposes
• Use increasingly complex spoken language; Demonstrate increasing knowledge of the alphabet
• Acquire meaning from a variety of materials read aloud; Develop early phonological awareness
• Demonstrate awareness of print concepts, Use writing for a variety of purposes

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