Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary

About Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary

Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary offers early childhood care and education in a center-based facility in Austin. Students and families at Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary will get the best of a school-like environment that both provides the structure and stability for learning to flourish and the soft introduction for students to formal school in the years to come. As a center, Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary also has the space, resources and opportunities for enrichment and educational activities alongside the empathetic and caring relationships that will benefit students for years ahead. With a full-time schedule, as well, Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary allows parents to work and assume other responsibilities while their children are playing and learning amongst their peers. Children have the opportunity to get used to the natural rhythms of a daily structured learning environment with a full-time schedule, which can help smooth the transition into kindergarten and future education. The full-time schedule allows plenty of opportunities for creativity and fun, too, as the day always feels too short when you’re having fun! Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary offers an arts-based curriculum emphasizing the creation process to help develop creative, artistic, motor and cognitive skills for students. Arts-based schools like Creative Action After School @ Maplewood Elementary value the artistic process over the end product, giving students a wide variety of mediums and techniques to explore and later admire their creations. Staff focus on developing the whole child, facilitating the learning process from initial curiosity to the emotional satisfaction that comes with making and finishing art.