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Early Childhood

The Jesse H. Jones Center for Early Childhood Development provides a hands-on environment where children learn through play and exploration.

Our faculty use a wide variety of tools, teaching methods, and an age-appropriate curriculum that fosters a lifelong love of learning. AOS intentionally designed this program to provide opportunities for students to develop a positive self-image through social and emotional learning. The Jones Center includes our Delphi (age 3) and Prekindergarten classes.

The Jones Center program offers an enchanting time in a child’s journey, brimming with curious explorations, astonishing discoveries, and newfound friendships. Our play-based curriculum includes sensory activities, dramatic play, storytelling, rich literature, and hands-on learning within a developmentally appropriate environment. This wondrous setting allows children to grow and thrive at their own pace in a nurturing classroom community. Here, children flourish, evolving into budding artists, passionate environmentalists, thoughtful mathematicians, emerging authors, global citizens, creative engineers, kind friends, and inquisitive scientists.

Ashley Mejia, Head of Early Childhood and Lower School

Program Overview

Our Delphi and Prekindergarten programs provide students with integrated instruction that encompasses all areas of academic development. The curriculum is rich with developmentally appropriate lessons, activities, and projects and provides students with multiple opportunities to develop their language, mathematics, science, social studies, and life skills. Chapel service, religion, gross motor, Greek, and music fundamentals extend classroom instruction and enrich each student's day.

These learning experiences promote the interest and curiosity of our young learners and allow children to play, explore, create, and progress at a comfortable pace. The following components comprise our early childhood program:

 

Our Jones Center is a special place. We embrace the philosophy that learning through play is foundational to a child's development, incorporating play into every aspect of a student's day. We create a nurturing environment where children grow their social and emotional skills alongside academic concepts. Through joyful and creative activities, guided by their natural curiosity, children flourish in a developmentally appropriate setting that values social interactions and celebrates each child's unique journey of discovery and growth.The amount of love, care, and happiness that fills the Jones Center classrooms is visible to anyone who enters the doors. 

Michelle Staller, Assistant Director of Early Childhood & Lower School