Collington Branch Children's Academy, Bowie

Welcome to Collington Branch Children's Academy in Bowie, MD! We offer safe and affordable child care, as well as a high-quality learning environment. We provide the best care for infant, toddlers and preschoolers. Our curriculum focuses on learning through play by offering fun, exciting and educational activities. We ensure our children have fun in the process of learning adequate skills needed for school and lifelong success. Our child care environment is a fun, delightful, friendly and exciting place for your child to learn, grow and develop positive values. Our full-time child care program is hosted in really amazing facilities, for children ages 12 months to school-aged. Our kindergarten program is designed for 4-1/2 to 5 years old to prepare them for their all important school years ahead. We also offer an extensive school-age program for before and after school and planned activities to keep them busy with age appropriate groupings of ages 5 to 7 years old and 8 to 12 years old. We are open from 6:30 AM - 6:00 PM, offer nutritious meals and snacks, and only employ qualified, caring, and experienced staff!

Our mission is to nurture and educate our children with the best fun and exciting activities, we provide a safe and conducive environment, that helps our children develop, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially and academically sound. We encourage our kids to learn to make Godly choices. Our values are to love, nurture and educate our children in safe, secure and conducive haven for greatness.

Our program provides an array of activities that stimulate learning through exploration and discovery. Many of the activities happen during normal daily routines, and all activities are fun and enjoyable for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. * Infants: We establish a healthy, nurturing, safe and protective environment for our infants to feel safe. We work to make sure our infants learn and grow at their own rates. We track, watch and encourage our infants as they reach their various developmental milestones. We encourage social play, dramatic play, music awareness and communication through simple sign language, before verbal skill development. Our infants participate in individual gross motor skills and fine motor skills. * Toddlers and preschoolers: We encourage our toddler and preschoolers to learn and explore in a conducive and inspiring environment. We select activities that are both stimulating and appropriate for our kids, we also adapt activities to take into account individual strengths, interest and needs. We focus on loving, nurturing, and caring; safety and security; communication skills, hands on learning and problem solving. Your child will learn listening and speaking skills, the alphabet, number, colors, shapes, sizes and pre-writing, as well as gross motor skills and fine motor skills. * Before and After Care: Our before and after care program provides a caring, nurturing, creative and encouraging environment to socialize, explore the world of diversity, dramatic play, games, creative expression, athletic program and supervising home work. Please feel free to contact us to set up a time when you can come visit Collington Branch Children's Academy, and meet our staff. We look forward to meeting you and your children.