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n 1976 Christine McCusker C aopened l i f othe r ndoors i a toBTemecula’s aptist University first preschool, Kid’s World. Christine McCusker, better known as “Miss Chris” to many in our community, wanted to provide children with more than just “child-care”. It was her goal from day one to create a preschool with a purpose. The purpose was to better prepare children for their educational journey. It was critical to Miss Chris that her teachers create a classroom where learning can be fun! It used to be that Kindergarten was where you learned to follow directions and work cooperatively with others, not any more. Miss Chris wanted to give her students the opportunity to grasp these skills in Preschool because she foresaw the trend of the Kindergarten curriculum primarily focusing on academics, rather than social skills. At Kid’s World students engage in meaningful, developmentally and cognitively appropriate curriculum that sparks children’s natural learning styles. It is Kid’s World’s philosophy to model positive and happy relationships and emphasize kind and inclusive behaviors. Diversity and differences are appreciated.
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A child’s discovery of and interaction with others is the very basis of little more convenient. his or her connection to the world. When children participate fully in a meaningful and challenging environment, they grow into wellWhether you prefer toinitiators learn purely online or in hybrid fashion rounded individuals. They become of friendships, problem CBU/online delivers superior education that solvers, inventors, decision makers and our hope for the future. can be completed
in as little as just 16 months. With quality faculty delivering real world Children as young as two years of age until five years of age attend experience, range of majors concentrations and small Kid’s World and enjoya awide day full of hands-on math,and exploratory student to and instructor wonder CBU/online is ranked by science, language literature ratios, and fineit’s arts.no Children engage U.S. that News and World aslarge a Tier I regional university. in activities exercise their fine,Report small and motor-skills. Children laugh, sing, play, and learn! Kid’s World Preschool nowis hastaking two locations. The original Preschool CBU/online registrations for the September is still located in Old Town and offers a beautiful park-like setting session now, don’t put your future on hold any longer with plenty of mature trees, a vegetable garden, and a technology because doesn’t get and anyit iseasier than lab. Kid’s World II it is their new campus neighbors with this. Van Avery Prep. Van Avery Prep is their sister school. A private elementary school also
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activities fordallugrades n s K-8th. Students at Van Avery Prep grow in i f character and learn to think for themselves through a balance of scholarly enterprise and active participation in athletics and the arts. Both Kid’s World Preschool and Van Avery Prep Elementary School continue to flourish under the guidance of John and Christine McCusker and their two daughters Tina Naber and Angela Pena.
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