Your children’s early education is a course to molding and honing their personality and abilities. Each time they encounter new environment, experience, learning, or behavior, it becomes an investment to their individuality. Exposing them in a setting where they can grow and develop holistically will guide them to a rewarding future.
TomorrowLand Academy continues to arise a new learning experience for children. As the world develops at a fast pace, we make it our aspiration to integrate enriching educational practices with an innovative approach in teaching. This allows our students to become well-prepared as they take on a lifelong journey.
Programs We Offer
Preschool
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Kindergarten
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The philosophy of the program encompasses the goal of meeting the needs of the well-rounded child.
Our Educators
To truly live our purpose and philosophy, we gathered highly trained and qualified teachers who implore excellence in their field. That is why we have carefully handpicked them and performed a series of background checks and interviews.
Learn more about our school. Schedule a Tour so we can show you around and discuss more about our programs.
Programs
Here at TomorrowLand Academy, we offer a range of services for children ages 2-6 years old. We have purposefully designed our curriculum to meet the developmental needs of the students so they become well-prepared as they take a step higher in their education level.
Combining academics and play, we help them discover, explore, and learn to their fullest potential.
Here are the programs we offer: (please link each programs to their pages)
Preschool
Kindergarten
Bilingual Curriculum: Immersion Chinese and English
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Enroll your child in our Kindergarten program, call us at 626-401-2489.
Bilingual Curriculum: Immersion Chinese and English
Our Bilingual Curriculum features the Chinese and English language which is lead by our foreign language educators. This curriculum nurtures the interest of the students in the Chinese language. It also stimulates their language skills and develops critical thinking which can become an advantage in their lifelong learning.
In this curriculum, children will be taught to learn basic Chinese vocabulary such as numbers, colors, parts of the body, etc. They will naturally acquire the Chinese language through age-appropriate lessons and activities.
The program accommodates the following learning areas:
Gross and Motor Skills
Music and Movement
Arts and Craft
Numeracy
And more.
To enroll your child in one of our programs, please contact us at 626-401-2489.
Student
“Kids at Hope” has become a part of the Herndon High School’s framework for all students and the entire staff. Kids at Hope is “a strategic, cultural framework designed to engage entire communities to support success for all children, no exceptions”. It is a cultural framework with strategies based on three leading principles and practices: We Believe, We Connect and We Time Travel. The “We Connect” component of Kids at Hope supports the notion that as long as children have meaningful and sustainable relationship with caring adults they will be successful. Those caring adults are called the ACES.
Knowing many parents and children have limited English proficiency, they still do not have bilingual counselors and school staff to help families learn and utilize school resources. Students are not
In her article, “Teach Them Spanish Early, Too,” Carlene Carmichael questions why young Californians are not being taught a basic understanding of both the English and the Spanish language. Carmichael contends that more job opportunities are available to bilingual applicants. She suggest that children could be taught both languages together from a young age. Carmichael pities the many Americans who are barred from employment at bilingual businesses because of this disadvantage and she wonders if anyone else feels the same. Carmichael’s suggestion to offer Spanish curriculum to young children and teach both English and Spanish at the same time makes a lot of sense; After all, California does recognize both English and Spanish as official
The film “Speaking in Tongues” (2010) obtained the students, parents, and communities perspective towards bilingual education. The students interviewed were all mainly towards learning how to speak a second language. The students felt they could benefit in learning a second language or in expanding their home language. In the film, Kelly Wong stated she loved speaking Chinese to her grandmother. Kelly could practice, learn, and get corrected by her grandmother while speaking Chinese.
According to Jarmel and Schneider (2010), by the year 2025, one-third of students attending public schools will not know English when they start Kindergarten. How will schools adapt to this? Will teachers and/or students be limited on what they can teach/learn throughout the school year because of time restraints? In a documentary Speaking in Tongues, directed by Jarmel & Schneider (2010), four students who range from Kindergarten to eighth grade, showcase their experiences about attending public school around the San Francisco area to become bilingual. The four students Durrell, Jason, Julian, and Kelly are taught in English and also in a second language such as Mandarin, Spanish, Chinese, and Cantonese.
With nations becoming increasingly connected through mediums like the internet, the world has changed substantially within the last decade. It’s a time where Spanish songs such as Luis Fonsi’s Despacito can top the American music charts, where traveling to the other side of the world takes a few hours instead of weeks, and more importantly, where states like California and Utah are continuing to promote and provide for a growing demand for bilingual education through dual-immersion programs. Although the states have great strides in the right direction, bilingual education should not be encouraged but rather be required for K-12 students. Because bilingual education integrates languages into the student’s lifestyle through instruction, it enriches the lives of children, the adults they will become, and the community to which they will contribute to.
Early Childhood Education: Theoretical Perspectives Abstract Studies confirm that high-quality education early in a child’s life leads to continued success in school, at work, and results in a healthier well-rounded student who is emotionally and socially strong. In most early childhood programs and schools, technology will be part of the learning background of the future. To make sure this new technology is used effectively, we must confirm that teachers are fully trained and supported. In this paper, theoretical perspectives of child development are discussed with the basic elements of learning program.
Most of my field work has been in The Akron Public School District which has allowed me to gain a lot of experience with urban youth students in the Akron area. I have been placed into preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, and high school classrooms which has allowed me to be given a wide variety of experiences with teachers and students. During my placement in the preschool classroom, I was able to learn about the importance of including lessons that enrich each area of a child’s development. While working with the Kindergarten students, I was able to observe a classroom that was run based on centers and small group instruction. I enjoyed working with the students in this classroom as many of the centers were game based which established a fun way for the students to learn.
The important reason to makes a good and professional early childhood educator is to communicate with children and try to understand them. I did not have any working experience in kindergarten, but I have some experience of taking care of a child due to my mother is a babysitter. The child that my mother takes care is a boy and he’s autism. He is a child that sometimes like lives in his own world and sometimes he is also hyperactive. He likes to sing, dance and write.
This is basing the children’s learning on their interests and is comprehensible to all children. The framework believes that children are best taught when they engage in experiences and that they learn from the relationships they have with people around them, in particular their parents because they are the first educators (EYLF, 2014). The EYLF has three key elements, Belonging, Being and becoming. Belonging is the core element and is crucial to a child’s life, the framework aims for a child to feel as though they belong in an environment. Being, is the celebration of here and now and Becoming is what is to come for the children in the future, what shapes the children into what they want to become (EYLF, 2014).
Though there have been many philosophies of education over the years, there are two that encompass my belief system most, traditional and progressive. Most educators do not believe both philosophies can exist at the same time; however, during my study it became apparent that the two philosophies do not have to be mutually exclusive. In sharing my personal philosophy of education, I will share the benefits of both theories and how I would like to see them combined for the benefit of my school and
Many theorists discuss ways in which children are developing. Physically, emotionally, socially and language progressions. Within the early childhood sector, the study of children's development is vividly important as teachers learn to observe the children's individual learning patterns and habits. The practical knowledge of how to develop a child further will assist in utilising the children's skills and holistic development to their fullest potential, however, knowing how to practically aid children in the separate developmental domains is also key as individual kids need more help in some areas than others.
The learners at the age of 3-5 are able to remember plenty of things just via using receptive skills. Their ability and range of remembering things is quite large. Very young learners are able to acquire the language only by listening. Until the age of 5 children are able to learn target language at the native speaker level, therefore the bilingual education is very prosperious and beneficial when started in the early age. Linguists and researchers as Purcell, Lee, Biffin, Baker distinguish other division of bilingualism and bilingual education.
Being bilingual in the era of globalization opens up many doors to the world as well as opportunities to a brighter career and future. The myths and misunderstandings of bilingualism has to be corrected and in order for them to come to an end, since they were proven by scientific researchers that they were nothing more than just myths from the past. Parents, educators along with researchers play an important role in spreading the facts about bilingualism to avoid future confusion especially to many new bilingual families. Aside from that, motivation from parents is the main key for a bilingual child to learn and excel in both languages to achieve a balance in order to be successful in the future. It is also important for the parents to guide and monitor a child’s learning development.
We understand that knowledge is key, but however, students need to enjoy learning too. What we aim for is for students to enjoy school but learning too. Our Values: Like any other school, we prioritize our student 's mental and physical condition. As a school,