Great Beginnings Pre-School & Childcare

Great Beginnings is a ministry of First United Methodist Church and is licensed by the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services. Currently, we are licensed for 180 students. We provide year round child care and and preschool for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old and after-school care and summer full time care for children 5-11 years old. Class size is small to insure optimum learning. Great Beginnings is a Christian center-based program that allows learning to take place through play. Children learn best through exploration and a hands-on curriculum, therefore we strive to teach in a manner that allows each child to discover his/her individual strengths through activities that include the arts, crafts, manipulates, math and science, a writing center, sand and water play, music and daily story-times. For children ages 3 to 5, we complement this center-base program with the A Beka Program. At Great Beginnings you will observe children engage in a stimulating environment that involves more than color-sheets, work-sheets, and rote memorization of numbers and letters. Children will be active participants and carefully planned, developmentally appropriate activities during both center and small group times. The classroom in a center-based program is set-up so children are able to explore curriculum that may be both interesting and challenging to them. Below is a list of centers that may be found in a center-based program as well as an explanation on what skill the child is developing in that particular center.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 4/23/2003.