My child and I absolutely love Creative Learning Academy! Initially, I was resistent to enroll my infant (now toddler) in daycare, and my research and touring of myriad facilities in SLC left me feeling discouraged. After a trusted friend recommended CLA based on her own positive experiences there (her daughter had attended the academy for five years and loved it), I enrolled my son. I feel lucky to have found this place, and I highly recommend it!
The facility is clean, large, and well-stocked with toys and ample learning materials. The outdoor play area is filled with a variety of equipment and engaging landscapes (hills with sliding options, plenty of age-appropriate playground toys, etc.) and the children also benefit from frequent walks along the natural surroundings of the academy, but it is the teachers and staff who truly make this day care / preschool exceptional!
As a teacher myself, I understand how crucial positive, caring relationships are in an educational setting for children. When a child feels loved and supported, she is receptive, open, and excited about learning. Not only are the day care and preschool teachers well learned in their fields as child care providers and educators, they also genuinely care about the children whom they teach and nurture every day. My toddler loves his caregivers, and I love the skills that they have taught him such as putting away his toys, managing peer conflicts effectively and appropriately, and polite etiquette at mealtimes--in addition to the standard lessons about numbers, vocabulary, and conceptual thinking (categorization, pattern recognition, etc.). My son's exceptional care givers are even teaching him Spanish at my request, and every day I'm amazed at just how much he's learned and matured through his experiences and time attending CLA.
Best of all, I know that my child is in safe hands when I'm away from him. The security monitoring system brings comfort, and the staff are more than willing to have me in the classroom with my child if I wish to see how he's doing or check in (for the first month of enrollment, I was there on my lunch break almost every day). Both the administrators and teachers are quick to notify me about everything from social conflicts amongst the kids to the inevitable spread of germs, etc., and this has helped to keep both my child and myself healthy and confident about the individualized attention to safety and well-being. In addition, the environment is incredibly positive, and the people who work at CLA make it personable, too, both for the children and for the parents who entrust outsiders with their precious, little ones. read more