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 About UsLCC programs are about supporting families and children as they grow and develop. The quality of support is apparent in the facilities, the playgrounds, the staffing, the extensive scholarship program as well as in the curriculum itself.Preschoolers: Preschoolers are served, year round, in one of three classrooms: Manitou Island and Fox Island in Leland, and the classroom at the Center in Northport. Each of these classrooms supports a developmental multi-aged approach to learning. Children are engaged in a curriculum designed to help children increase in self confidence and in skills across all developmental domains. Children will participate in large and small group activities, individual and structured play, indoors and out. Wonderful professionals will plan experiences that cause children to think broadly and learn deeply. Please call to arrange a time to come and visit the developmental preschool classrooms. All components of this developmental approach are endorsed by the Michigan Department of Education. We encourage you to come and visit our developmental preschool classrooms: Toddlers: Toddlers are served, year round, in classrooms in both Northport and Leland: The Crib in Leland and in the multi-aged classroom in Northport. Toddler life is a fast paced whirlwind of experiences from which children develop critical skills across the developmental domain. Highly skilled teachers help the busy toddlers learn to live and play with their peers, communicate wants and needs, and self regulate – again across developmental domains. As with preschoolers, an essential sense of self awareness and confidence is a key aspect that the curriculum emphasizes day in and day out. Our school age classrooms: Beaver Island in Leland and the multi-age classroom in Northport. School aged children: Kindergarten-aged children in Leland work and play in the Beaver Island classroom, housed in the Leland Public School. Beaver Island offers both before/after kindergarten care and a full day program for children who are kindergarten aged but whose parents choose to wait a year before enrolling them in kindergarten. The Beaver Island program is designed to promote emerging academic skills with a focus on social-emotional development. The Beaver Island day alternates between times to play - in large and small groups, indoors and out - and times for reflective thinking - writing, drawing, acting, discussing. The curriculum explores questions of interest to children, and does so by exploring the concepts from the emerging academic perspectives of math, language arts, science, fine arts and performing arts. During the school year, kindergarten-aged children in Northport are housed in the Northport Public School after a morning in kindergarten. The afternoon program is designed to complement the kindergarten morning, with an emphasis on exploratory play. Children have time to play freely indoors and out, as well as time for reflective practices such as those described above. In the summer both Leland Beaver Islanders and Northport kindergarten-aged kids join their older peers in the school-aged summer program, in which children grades K-3 play and learn together. The summer program always chooses a central point of study—what happened to my town? What does one find in the villages of Leelanau County? What will I find on the Conservancy properties? And explores the issue throughout the summer. The results of their exploration are demonstrated toward the end of summer in a grand finale event. This very popular program is housed in the Leland Public School in Leland and Northport Public School in Northport and runs for a nine week period in Leland and ten weeks in Northport. Parent Support and Education: Parent support and education is woven into the fabric of everyday life at the Center. From the daily parent-teacher visits at pick up and drop off to the formal parent education classes, our goal is to provide timely, supportive and helpful information for parents. A menu of parent support activities, available to any family with young children in the Leland and Northport School Districts, includes: - home visits, - playgroups, - parent education classes, - a parent lending library - consultation with teachers and or therapists - monthly newsletters – developmental assessments. We welcome your ideas about how to help parents succeed in the hardest and most thrilling time in a life - the raising of young children. Contact the Center to find out more about our parent support programs. Parents Make the Difference! Parent involvement is an everyday occurrence at the Center. We invite parents to participate in whatever way suits their schedule and talents ... The coffee pot is always on! Parents may also check books out of our parent lending library and partake of center parenting classes and discussion groups. Songs From The Circle LCC Case Statement - our mission, history, function & goals... Conflict Resolution Steps (adobe pdf) LCC Parent School-Year Handbook (adobe pdf) Previous Page |