Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA

About Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA

The first few years are a joy to behold and the learning and fun that happen within them is formative for success ahead! Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA is a center-based child care provider serving children, parents and families in Austin. Centers like Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA are popular choices with families that value getting the best of early educational enrichment, in the form of stimulating activities and a peer set of similarly-aged children, along with an environment that feels like formal school and can help smooth the transition ahead. Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA has a full-time schedule that promotes community for the students and families that attend. Students will have the opportunity to get to know the same peers and adults, every day, and learn together in a structured environment. With plenty of opportunities to explore, play, and try new activities, students will grow their cognitive and language skills as well as their sense of wonder at the world around them. Parents will see their children’s social and behavioral development grow in leaps and bounds! Hornsby-Dunlap Eac YMCA teaches a play-based curriculum that values self-directed, interactive, intuitive learning by and for children. Students at play-based schools get the opportunity to participate in theme-based, hands-on activities with staff that facilitate and direct the discovery process. Through these hands-on activities, students develop social, cognitive and emotional skills built through the cooperation process with their peers. A play-based approach also can spark a love of learning that will be foundational for students throughout their early years of formal school.