Young & Emerging Learner Program

Kimberly Acevedo

Kimberly brings her experience of over 20 years in the classroom to manage our Young Learners program! Her personal philosophy about learning especially at the TK/K level is that every moment is a learning opportunity. She uses open ended questions with her students to get them talking without giving too much of her own input. This helps all students, especially the ones that may be timid about sharing their ideas, to feel confident. She also brings being a good listener to this program too, because everyone wants to be heard and validated. Children are sponges and absorb it all! Miss Kim loves doing art activities and making songs to help reinforce whatever we may be learning at that time.

Young & Emerging Learners Program

Young Learners is a HuckleBerry signature program for students aged 4-7.

Many of our students start the program in the Fall at age 6 and turn 7 during the year!

At that time, they are still welcome to stay in Young Learners,

but sometimes they like to take a few of our Emerging Learner classes.

Young Learners is designed to be a Transitional Kindergarten to Kindergarten experience.

Our Emerging Learners program is a continuation of our Young Learners program!

Designed for kids that want to move on from Young Learners but don't want the challenges of our classes designed for 6-9 year olds. Our Emerging Learner classes have more breaks and less advanced reading requirements so it's easier to learn with written material.

ALL YOUNG LEARNERS MUST BE COMPLETELY POTTY TRAINED!

Our program is both academic AND designed to address the social and emotional needs of our Young Learners. You can expect your child to have fun all day long at Huck while they enjoy the process of learning, sharing with others, playing on our beautiful playground, becoming more in tune with their own bodies and aware of what is going on around them.

We have split this program up so that you can use it as much or as little as it suits your needs! Come for one class, or come for several days! While our individual classes are split up into traditional learning disciplines, each of our classes will also include time in learning how to quiet the mind, identify our feelings and how best to give ourselves time to understand them and build healthy coping skills, respect ourselves and others, and build lasting friendships.

We've scheduled a 30 minute lunch between classes that will be supervised at our picnic tables and on our playground. None of our other classes will be having a break at this time, so the playground will be just for our Young Learners! Please pack a lunch for your child. As many of our Young Learners have peanut allergies and our youngest students are still learning to keep their hands to themselves and clean up after themselves, we ask that parents pack peanut-free lunches.

Our Daily Schedule for Young & Emerging Learners

Our gates remain locked during class times and are open during drop off times. If you are running late, you'll need to call / text us to open the gate for you.

9:30 - 9:45

Drop Off! Our Older kids are on the playground until 9:30. If you come with your Young Learner before 9:30, you will need to stay on the playground with them to provide supervision. Thank you!

9:45 - 11:15

Our first class of the day for Young Learners.

11:15 - 11:45

Lunch and Recess. Students eat first at our picnic tables, go to the bathroom and then have supervised play time on the playground. Parents are welcome to stay on campus and share lunch and recess time!

11:45 - 1:15

Our second class of the day for Young Learners.

1:15 - 1:30

Play time & Recess

1:30 - 3:00

Our third class of the day for Young / Emerging Learners

3:00

Pick up in Room 4. Parents & students are stay on campus until 3:15 but must be supervised by parents while we close down the campus.