The Adventure Club Center

Our new Blacksburg Pre-School Center is now open. Our goal is to provide a safe environment with fun, age-appropriate activities that enhance your child's education.

Infants, Toddlers and Two Year Olds... The Early Years

Infants must be at least 6 weeks old in order to enroll at The Adventure Club Center. An individual schedule, provided by the parents, will be followed by your child's primary caregiver.

This schedule will include feeding and sleeping schedules, until your child is eating table food. Since we believe that meal times are a time for nurturing and interaction, your child will be held during bottle feedings. However, when your infant or toddler shows signs of wanting to feed themselves, we will encourage them to do so.

Our Pre-School Program...
The Emerging Years

A child's personality is truly emerging during the preschool years. They will begin to express their likes and dislikes. And you'll be able to see their talents bloom during these years.

In our preschool and Pre-K programs, we combine the seven learning centers in order to meet their needs and the needs of the Foundation Blocks of Learning.

  • Creative Art/ Individual Expression
  • Dramatic Play/ Role Playing
  • Blocks/ Woodworking
  • Math & Manipulative Play
  • Discovering Science
  • Music & Movement
  • Language Arts / Kindergarten Readiness Skills

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Children's Curriculum and Program Standards

The Adventure Club Center is proud to use The High/Scope Curriculum as its foundation to early care and active learning. The High/Scope Curriculum is a research based and validated, comprehensive curriculum that integrates all area of child development across an intentionally planned daily routine.

The High/Scope Curriculum uses an initiated learning approach based on children's play. Initiated learning combines teacher intentions and child initiation. Teacher intention focuses the lessons on concepts to be learned. Child initiation allows for children to make choices, plans, and decisions, thereby taking ownership of their learning. The combination of these two allow for children to learn through education experiences that are both encouraged by their teacher and initiated on their own. This is called active learning through play!

At The Adventure Club Center we believe each child is an unique individual. We also realize that children feel happy and secure when they are given opportunities to succeed each day. When children celebrate success, their self-confidence and self-worth will soar. This will allow them to actively search for information and work towards finding solutions to their problems. This is the first step in creating life-long learners through interactive adults who know children learn through play.

Children learn through play and must be actively engaged, guided and encouraged along the way. Children will be placed in classrooms depending on their age and their developmental level. In each classroom, our lead teachers have taken the liberty of posting their weekly lesson plans so you can reinforce learning and skills at home with your child.