A Typical Day At Move-N-Learn Academy

What is a typical day at Move-N-Learn Academy? First of all it is filled with exploration and learning fun from beginning to end! Parents are amazed that their child meets them in the lobby with a smile on their faces and stories to tell of what all they did during their time at Move-N-Learn Academy.

Because we believe in the body and mind connection, class time never starts with sitting at the tables working on papers. Instead, they enjoy fun learning on the computers, tablets, music keyboards and more.

From there, students then move to circle time to learn about many different things such as days and months of the year, holidays, counting out loud, letter and number recognition, color recognition, loud and quiet, hard and soft, sing songs and more.

Dancing and music making are a part of each day too. Here the students learn about left and right, high and low, vocal toning and pitch, cooperation with others, spatial awareness as well has hopping, skipping, jumping, dance technique.

Academics that are age appropriate and  meet core standards takes place at the tables. Learning to write, read and do math situations, cutting, gluing and working with shapes are just a few things that the students experience and learn from.

We have the greatest play yard! Actually, it is our gym where students participate in physical activity and gymnastics. The greatest thing about all of this is that our students receive physical activity each day they are in class because the weather is never a situation to deal with!

Summer brings great fun in the form of swimming lessons! That is right! The summer session is a splashing great time in our pool ant learning to swim safely.

** Swimming lessons and gymnastics is only offered in our Woodward location at this time. Enid location will include tumbling and physical activities.

Activity Centers

Activity centers are a daily event at Move-N-Learn Academy. Great fun for everyone exploring each center.

Science Fun with Bugs'

Science can begin for all ages of children. Young children love to explore and learn new things everyday at Move-N-Learn Academy. 

Move-N-Learn Academy May Be the Right Fit For Your Child

Not every child can learn in full day program that teaches children mainly by having them sit at desks or tables all day. Young children are active and always moving for one reason, to use their senses and locomotion to LEARN.

Move-N-Learn Academy's half day program may actually amaze you when it comes to your child's capacity to learn! A program that has been built around the needs of children and how they learn, Move-N-Learn Academy may just be the difference that meets your young child's needs.

Still Accepting Registration For Move-N-Learn Morning Academy in Woodward! Call 580-256-3262 to learn more of visit our website at www.academyoffineartsok.com. Also find Move-N-Learn Academy of Woodward Ok 73801 on Facebook and see the fun!

Now Pre-registering in our Enid location! 580-747-4799

Why should you select Move-N-Learn Academy for Pre-K?

THERE IS ONE GOOD REASON!

1. Classes are small so your child gets the help in learning that they deserve!
1. MNL offers a proven curriculum that uses the body and brain connection for better learning and retention.
1.Your child receives all of the standards that are needed to transition successfully to brick and mortar public schools , and more!
1.Your child receives fine arts training in dance, gymnastics, art, music.
1. Foreign languages such as French and Spanish are introduced through a phonics based learning style.
1, American sign language is taught and counts as a second, or even third language.
1. Art classes are not just coloring and pasting (although that is important too). Students learn the science of mixing colors, learn about textures and use different media to explore their art talents.
1. Dance is syllabus based and age appropriate, and is not just moving and shaking for exercise.
1. Gymnastics is syllabus based and age appropriate for SAFETY and fun. It is a progressive program where one skill develops from another.
1. Music taught is more than singing a song or shaking an instrument. Student learn to recognize musical symbols and start learning to actually read music.
1. Pre-K and Jr Kindergarten have piano lessons on Wednesdays
1. Parents get a daily report of their child's progress.
1. Parents can look at the progress of their child passing skills from their on line parent portal.
1. Daily computer time that teaches them how to use a computer and mouse.
1. Introduction to tablets
1. No matter what the weather, we have the largest indoor play yard in our gym for great physical fun!
1. Physical activity every day
1. Holiday parties and fun
1. Performance opportunities
1. Project based learning that allows a child to experience the learning in a fun environment and apply their knowledge.
1. Great teachers that can connect with the students.
1. A program that is based on current trends, thus teaching your child with their future in mind and not for the world in the past.
1. A program built to life students up and never break them down.

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU IN MOVE-N-LEARN ACADEMY!

A Reason To Start An Arts Education Early!

The Connection Between Arts Education and Academic Achievement

Yet against this backdrop, a new picture is emerging. Comprehensive, innovative arts initiatives are taking root in a growing number of school districts. Many of these models are based on new findings in brain research and cognitive development, and they embrace a variety of approaches: using the arts as a learning tool (for example, musical notes to teach fractions); incorporating arts into other core classes (writing and performing a play about, say, slavery); creating a school environment rich in arts and culture (Mozart in the hallways every day) and hands-on arts instruction. Although most of these initiatives are in the early stages, some are beginning to rack up impressive results. This trend may send a message to schools focused maniacally, and perhaps counterproductively, on reading and math.

"If they're worried about their test scores and want a way to get them higher, they need to give kids more arts, not less," says Tom Horne, Arizona's state superintendent of public instruction. "There's lots of evidence that kids immersed in the arts do better on their academic tests."

Education policies almost universally recognize the value of arts. Forty-seven states have arts-education mandates, forty-eight have arts-education standards, and forty have arts requirements for high school graduation, according to the 2007-08 AEP state policy database. The Goals 2000 Educate America Act, passed in 1994 to set the school-reform agenda of the Clinton and Bush administrations, declared art to be part of what all schools should teach. NCLB, enacted in 2001, included art as one of the ten core academic subjects of public education, a designation that qualified arts programs for an assortment of federal grants.

In a 2003 report, "The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools," a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign languages. As chairman of the Education Commission of the States from 2004 to 2006, Mike Huckabee, then governor of Arkansas, launched an initiative designed, according to commission literature, to ensure every child has the opportunity to learn about, enjoy, and participate directly in the arts.

Top-down mandates are one thing, of course, and implementation in the classroom is another. Whatever NCLB says about the arts, it measures achievement through math and language arts scores, not drawing proficiency or music skills. It's no surprise, then, that many districts have zeroed in on the tests. A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects. A follow-up analysis, released in February 2008, showed that 16 percent of districts had reduced elementary school class time for music and art -- and had done so by an average of 35 percent, or fifty-seven minutes a week.

To read more about this article, go to  http://www.edutopia.org/arts-music-curriculum-child-development