5 Ways Your 4-Year-Old Can Benefit from Pre-School

The state of Florida offers free pre-school education to every 4-year-old. Unlike elementary school, enrolling your young child in pre-school isn’t mandatory. But it does offer some enormous advantages your child can benefit from throughout their education, their career, and in their personal life. Here are five great reasons to take advantage of Florida’s innovative, …

How to Apply for Florida’s Free Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program

Florida is one of the few states in the US offering all of its 4-year-old children free access to free pre-kindergarten education. The state’s Voluntary Free PreKindergarten program provides emergent literacy skills — including letter and sound recognition — that can help a child be successful throughout his or her education as well as into …

STEAM Learning Boosts Creative Thinking Skills

It’s never too early to introduce children to creative ways of thinking. The first few years of life is when children’s brains begin forming learning habits and thought patterns they will carry with them throughout their lives. So the earlier they can be introduced to concepts such as scientific method, art appreciation, and mathematics, the …

3 Ways to Help Your Child Develop Language Skills

Conversations between children and their teachers and other adults during pre-school and kindergarten are fundamental to their grasp of language. Vocabulary, grammar, and even subtleties of meaning that are learned during these interactions can be carried through during their entire lives. At birth, humans have the physical capacity to make 40 different sounds. As the …

STEAM Curriculum Prepares Children for the Future

We are living in an increasingly complex world. So the earlier children can be introduced to concepts such as science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics, the more prepared they will be to succeed in the future. The STEAM curriculum offered by Amazing Explorers Academy may sound intimidating to the parents of a pre-schooler. But …

Tips for Building Loving Relationships

Establishing and nurturing “Building Loving Relationships” with your child is paramount. Being attuned and responding to your child with warmth and gentleness is foundational to their development, shaping the adult they will become. Why loving, nurturing relationships are important Building Loving Relationships: Children’s relationships shape the way they see the world and affect all areas …

Your Kindergarten Readiness Checklist

A Quick Peek at What Your Little Learner Needs to Know Your child is ready to be a kindergartener soon! But amidst all the excitement, as a parent, you’re probably wondering: What should your child know by kindergarten? What skills will he or she be expected to have? These questions can be stressful, but the …

Stem in Fairytales.

Here at The Amazing Explorers, our children have taken classic childhood fairytales and incorporated those into STEM base activities. Our students learned all about Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel, and many more fairytales we all love. Fairytale Friday: The Princess and Pea: We began our morning with The Princess and the …