Ymca Joe Lee Johnson Elementary

About Ymca Joe Lee Johnson Elementary

For the parents, families and students of Austin, Ymca Joe Lee Johnson Elementary offers center-based early care and education that’ll both care for students and their needs now and prepare them for the years ahead! Ymca Joe Lee Johnson Elementary’s center-based environment enables a strong and structured learning culture, with the enriching curriculum and activities for students that stimulate the brain and their curiosity. Students will benefit from the socialization opportunities that come from interacting with peers of similar ages and non-family adults that’re professionals in the early education space. The benefit of a full-time schedule for children, too, can be dramatic! In a structured, repeated learning environment, students will play with the same peers, get familiar with the same staff and experience something new every day. The full-time schedule at Ymca Joe Lee Johnson Elementary offers families these things for their children in an environment that’ll soon become a real community. Parents get the advantages of long blocks of time to work while students will grow their social, behavioral and cognitive skills. Ymca Joe Lee Johnson 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 Ymca Joe Lee Johnson 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.