At Lake Dow Learning Academy, music is an important part of our childcare curriculum. Young children love sound. Music activities and experiences help children practice important skills, including thinking, language, motor coordination and understanding emotions.
Music is a powerful tool that helps children learn new thinking skills. When our children play with musical instruments, we have discovered that they explore cause and effect. They can see that pressing a key makes a sound. Additionally, they learn to pay attention to changes in sound, noting for example that certain keys sound deeper than others. Exploring musical instruments also helps children learn how different instruments work and the sounds they create. At lake Down Learning Academy, we discovered that inviting guest musicians to the childcare program is an effective way of introducing children to unfamiliar musical instruments.
For example, when a child grips and uses a paintbrush, or glues buttons and yarn to paper, he is engaging and advancing his fine motor skills. However, when he dances, skipping or clapping or jumping in time to the music, he stimulates the part of the brain that controls gross motor skills. Childhood utilization of these areas is critical to later adulthood abilities.
The benefits of including and stressing the creative arts in an early childhood education are numerous and expansive, ranging from the physical to the emotional to the mental. Although we more than not take our actions for granted, our ability to move and our coordination is comprised of gross and fine motor skills, and our skill level in these movements are developed throughout our childhood. Varying types of creative arts activities help children to build up their abilities in both categories of motion.
Lake Dow Learning Academy offers a safe, friendly, and creative environment. Students can unlock their greatest potential through a variety of arts training. Your child will be given opportunities to explore performance art, dance, ballet, jazz, martial arts as well as experience technology, arts & crafts, and outdoor recreation. Personal one-on-one tutoring is also available.
Programs : Music
616 Highway 81 E.
McDonough, GA 30252
Call (770)957-7647
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At Lake Dow Learning Academy, we understand what developing minds need to be successful later in life. Our programs are research-based to ensure each child progresses at the right pace for their age and stage. We provide the structure children need, while also encouraging their natural curiosity and love of learning.
We provide a nurturing environment to ensure that each child feels supported, engaged, and ready to discover more. Our facility has advanced security, so you never have to worry that your child is safe.
Though the years, we have learned that our reputation is our greatest asset. It has been built on clear expectations, long term vision, and a commitment to our core values as well as the community that we serve.
Leadership within the Lake Dow Learning Academy system thrives and is based on the core values of trust, respect, honesty, transparency, attention to detail, fluidity and reliability. We are eager to work with parents to develop the best possible plan for our children. We are committed to families and long-term investments in our children.
Lake Dow Learning Academy provides inclusive and developmentally appropriate programs in a warm and nurturing environment that will encourage positive self-esteem and individuality. We provide experiences that will enable each child to develop a sense of individuality. This provides our children the confidence to interact with other children and caring adults.
Lake Dow Learning Academy is staffed by qualified teachers and assistants with expertise in childcare and development.
At Lake Dow Learning Academy, we are dedicated to the whole child. We focus on social, emotional, and academic development of every child in our care. Our teachers progressively introduce essential skills at every age level.
Our industry leading programs develop children’s cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and creative abilities through skill-targeted learning. Our skill-based approach helps children reach important developmental milestones and teaches them how to become more well-rounded and independent.
Lake Dow Learning Academy is committed to providing high-quality programs within a safe, nurturing and supportive environment. It is dedicated to the achievement of developmental milestones in the cognitive, physical, social and emotional growth of children.
Lake Dow Learning Academy’s tradition of close collaboration with parents, guides our commitment to excellence in providing a well-balanced, diversified education to our students.
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