YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker

About YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker

The next step in your child’s learning journey just might be YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker! YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker welcomes the families of Denver with a center-based setting where students can learn, laugh, play and grow alongside peers of similar ages and non-family adults that specialize in developing the learning skills critical for the years ahead. Center-based environments like at YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker are popular choices with families that value a school-like environment and the socialization opportunities that come with a strong peer set! The full-time schedule at YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker likewise gives parents who want their children to learn and grow as much as possible to do just that! The full-time schedule gives children the opportunity to form in-depth bonds with their classmates and the adults at YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker and the opportunity to feel a part of a real community outside of the home. Children will play, grow, laugh and learn day in, day out, and with a repeated, structured learning environment, they’ll be well set up for what’s ahead. Students at YMCA @ Joe Shoemaker will also experience an arts-based curriculum that emphasizes how engagement with visual arts, dance, music and storytelling can develop the whole child. Children at an arts-based curriculum make with their hands, learn from staff and peers and take their creations from inception to finish. Through this engagement with the arts, students will develop a unique bend of social, emotional, motor and intellectual skills that will serve them well as they transition to more academic-based environments in the future.