Our program is based on the philosophy that young children learn best by doing. Learning isn’t just repeating what someone else says; it requires active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn firsthand about the world we live in. In their early years, children explore the world around them by using all their senses (touching, tasting, listening, smelling, and looking).

Apple Ridge Academy teachers offer a variety of new experiences, both inside and outside the classroom, and create lesson plans according to the interests and needs of the children. More than just providing basic child care, we’re teaching them how to learn, not just in preschool, but all through their lives. We’re allowing them to learn at their own pace and in the ways that are best for them. We’re encouraging them to demonstrate good habits and attitudes, particularly a positive sense of themselves, which will make a difference throughout their lives. We look forward to your family joining us on “A Journey to Excellence”.

“Chasing Tales” is a family play center with a focus on providing high quality learning experiences for young children and their parents to help them foster social, physical, and intellectual development. Parents will interact with their child in an engaging environment to help them explore, discover, and create the world around them. The environment caters to an age range of 0-10 by providing varied and developmentally appropriate equipment, games, and activities to engage children. The establishment will provide an engaging, fun, safe, and clean environment for families to utilize to strengthen the family bond doing what children do best; play! Some of the activities that families will find at Chasing Tales are a large, soft play structure, themed areas for children to discover, explore, and create art, music, theater, construction, and role play scenarios.

Childcare services.

A child’s curiosity is precious. It is in this curiosity that a child reaches out to explore more than what he or she knew days; hours; minutes, even seconds before! We believe this exploration is necessary for mental growth and development. In addition, exploration should be “fun” to provoke a child to build a lifelong habit and desire for continuous learning; Hence, our motto, “Where Fun and Learning Roll Into One!” Because we believe both should go hand-in-hand.
We also believe a child’s exploratory learning must be safe and under the guidance of a trusted individual. Hence, “NANNY” in ShaNANNYgans! As “Top NANNY” of ShaNANNYgans, I promise we will dutifully:
• Remain watchful to ensure your child’s safety is priority number one;
• Encourage good manners and the sharing with others; and
• Teach your child to respect and care for the world around them.