Early Childhood

Preschool and PreK are the ‘Trunk’ of our ‘Growing Children Socially and Academically’ program here at Honey Tree and Branches Academy. This is the time in a child’s life when those beginning socialization and academic foundations begin to grow and strengthen into a solid supportive ‘trunk’ helping to create their own young individual personal social skills and mind. We provide a caring, educational, nurturing, engaging environment to begin growing this vital ‘trunk’ support structure for your child. Research shows that 93% of a child’s brain development occurs between birth and age 5. This growth and development is the ‘trunk', the support growth up from the roots of a child’s foundation. The majority of this ‘trunk’ growth occurs during a child’s formative years, but just like a tree it will continue to grow throughout a child’s life. The base ‘trunk’ knowledge that your young child receives during their early formative years helps to determine the strength and potential growth, ‘of their tree’ in their later years. The proprietary curriculum we utilize for our Early Childhood instruction at Honey Tree and Branches Academy incorporates thematic standards based lessons, books, songs, hands on manipulatives, realia, movement, and differentiated instruction to best meet each child’s needs as they grow and strengthen the ‘trunk’ of their ‘Tree of Learning’. Potty Training We prefer our students two and older to be potty trained. However, potty training is still an essential component for some in our two year old program as well. We consistently take our children to the bathroom approximately every hour and a half, and partner with our parents to ensure they are consistently potty training at home. We have found that when parents and the school partner successfully together, our students are potty trained before age three. Students three and older must be potty trained at the Academy.