Longleaf Learning Center

Facility

• Longleaf Learning Center offers a visitor-friendly lobby, but access to our classroom area is secured. Parents use a PIN number/keypad to enter.
• Each of the six large self-contained classrooms has its own child-sized bathroom and direct access to an outdoor play area.
• Most of our floors are carpeted for comfort and noise abatement; however, the dining area and spaces designed for messy work are tiled.
• The classrooms are arranged in interest centers where we have age-appropriate furniture and equipment, including computers. (See Classroom Tour.)  The rooms provide extra open space for the 2 and 3 year olds and additional eye-catching materials for the older preschoolers.
• The entire facility meets National Health and Safety Standards for Child Care Programs.

LET'S GO OUTSIDE!

Our wonderful one-acre site is adjacent to wetlands, where we can watch birds and study nature, and the outdoor playground is especially exciting.  Covered with beautiful field turf, the area offers our students a wonderful place to play and learn outside.

Toddlers have their own safe haven with equipment and toys for motor development, coordination, and balance, plus room for running.  During the summer, they love water play activities.

Preschoolers have several enticing outdoor options.  Among their choices are large covered patios, with their inviting shade and concrete surfaces for bouncing balls, jumping rope, playing hopscotch, and drawing with chalk.

In addition, large grassy and soft-fill areas are equipped with a fabulous variety of safe but challenging equipment where children develop their motor, social, and sensory skills.  (A Certified Playground Safety Inspector designed our climbing structures, and they meet the National Playground Safety Standards.)  The paved bike path is extremely popular with our preschoolers.  They also have lots of non-commercial, open-ended play materials that let their imaginations soar!

A gazebo, a butterfly garden, and various cozy areas provide quiet refuge and an opportunity to spend quality time in a peaceful atmosphere.