ChildcarePreschoolHappy Hearts Learning

Happy Hearts Learning Center is a state approved preschool. It is co-owned and directed by Pam Noble and Ann Millard. Together they have many years of teaching and directing experience and have earned degrees in Early Childhood, Elementary Education, Reading, and Studio Arts. The staff is highly professional, motivated, dedicated and loving. There is a teacher and an assistant teacher in each classroom. Family input and participation are warmly encouraged.

Our facility, on South County Trail, is easily accessible from Routes 95, 4 and 2. Two buildings and two playgrounds provide plenty of space in which to learn and grow. The Cottage, which is the smaller of the two buildings, is a historic schoolhouse that is classroom space for one of our three-year-old classes. The Learning Center, which is the larger building, accommodates our two, three, and four-year-old classes.

Programs:

Our program has been formulated and guided by current practices in the ever-changing field of early childhood. In accordance with the RI Early Learning and Development Standards, we seek to encourage and foster the following:

• A positive self-concept within each child

• The foundation for a lifelong love of learning

• Socialization skills within a school environment, including the ability to function as part of a group of children

• Authentic and intentional relationships between children and staff

• Acknowledgement of different personalities and learning styles among children, and the development of strategies to address these differences

• Receptive, expressive, and interactive language skills (listening and speaking)

• Literacy readiness skills

• Mathematics readiness skills

• Exposure to the scientific process, including the natural and physical world

• Creative expression, including individual and group performance and visual arts

• Physical health and motor development, including fine and gross motor skills, leading to self-sufficiency and confidence

• Social studies concepts, such as appreciation for the cultural diversity of our families

• Cognitive readiness skills, which include executive function, logic, problem solving, memory and attention skills, to cultivate growth and development and prepare children for their entrance to kindergarten

• Family fun activities

• The establishment of families as partners in the preschool experience, with sensitivity to each family’s culture and beliefs