Our daycare programs for infants and babies are focused first and foremost on your child’s safety. We monitor babies carefully to ensure that they can grow and explore their surroundings in a safe, secure environment, while we meet all of their feeding, burping, and diaper changing needs. During daycare sessions, your child will work on developing their gross motor skills, like crawling, rolling, shaking a rattle, and grasping for toys. They will also develop cognitive skills, such as recognizing people, toys, and food, as well as responding to their name and making noises or forming words. Our goal is to supervise babies in a way that engages them in mentally stimulating activities that encourage growth, both physically and cognitively.

The Apple Tree School has been recognized as having one of the best preschool programs in Houston, due to our detailed curriculum for toddlers, two-year-olds, three-year-olds, and four-year-olds. Our toddler preschool classes engage children in number learning, color matching, songs, and children’s rhymes to enhance literacy, and our two-year-old preschool classes build upon this foundation. These students will learn more numbers (1-25), start mastering their shapes and colors, and be introduced to geography and U.S. presidents.

Our preschool programs for three and four-year-olds focus on helping kids learn letter names and sounds of the alphabet, as well as writing their names, counting to 50 or 100, and learning basic geography and important historical figures. In our preschool classes for four-year-olds, in particular, students will refine these skills and work on pronunciation of vowels, consonants, and entire words. They will also sing songs, learn Bible verses, and and delve deeper into history and geography while exploring the world around them.

At our private Christian school, students really begin to grow and thrive in our kindergarten classes, as they learn to speak more clearly, read words, and expand their vocabulary. Our kindergarten students excel in literacy and take home readers to help them practice spelling out words and understanding their meaning at home. Readers also help students become familiar with mathematical concepts like addition and subtraction, as well as recognizing numbers, telling time, and counting money.

But what really makes our kindergarten programs different from those at other early childhood learning centers is that we also include geography lessons, which help students wrap their heads around the ideas of population, climate, economy, and traditions and culture. This allows them to think outside the box and begin to understand the world around them, which proves helpful in other areas like comparing and contrasting, problem solving, collecting information, and conducting experiments.

If you have a first grader, you probably already know that this is the stage in your child’s development where they really start to take off! Your child should be feeling more comfortable with reading and writing, and their speech will drastically improve in terms of clarity and completeness of thoughts. In our first-grade programs, students will expand their reading vocabulary and start writing complete sentences, while practicing spelling and pronunciation of longer words. They will also advance in adding and subtracting skills, using blocks and other hands-on materials. Not only that, but our kindergarteners will also learn more about world geography, history, and real-life problem solving, as they create their own projects and work as a team.

At The Apple Tree School, our second-grade programs are unparalleled, with an engaging curriculum that focuses on reading, writing, and comprehension, as well as mathematical processes. In our second-grade programs, we teach children how to correctly spell and sound out long or complicated words, write short stories and poems, answer the five W's (who, what, when, where, why, and how), and use proper grammar. With this, they will develop an understanding of how to read and interpret literature, which enhances their critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities.

In our math classes for second-graders, our teachers engage students in mathematical problem-solving activities, such as counting in 10’s, 100’s, and 1,000’s, rounding to whole numbers, and ordering numbers in lists. They will also be introduced to units of measurement, multiplication, and division through mentally challenging problems and group activities, which get them ready for what lies ahead in the rest of their primary education — and beyond.

In addition to the early childhood education programs previously mentioned, we are also pleased to offer extended day enrichment for children who need a safe and nurturing environment from 1:00 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. This after-school program is intended for children of parents that work and prefer our private school programs over any other kind of daycare. During this program, our teachers will engage kids in fun learning activities that help them develop cognitive skills and motor movements, whether that be arts and crafts, reading, or playing in groups. We know how difficult it can be for children to be separated from their parents for this long, so we recognize that and do our best to provide an emotionally nurturing environment where they can thrive and have fun.

If you are looking for a children’s summer program to sign your little one up for, we also offer a summer learning program here at The Apple Tree School. We believe that the summer is a time for kids to have fun, explore, and use their imaginations outside the classroom, which is why we choose a new theme for each year. From plants and animals to recycling, gardening, and more, each of our themes consist of lots of time spent outdoors — and under constant teacher supervision. In our summer learning program, your child will get to work with their hands, go on class field trips, and indulge in plenty of arts, crafts, music, games, and even go swimming!