At Duck Hollow Discovery Learning Center, we believe creating secure attachments between children and their caregivers is the crucial to their development. Leaving your infant/waddler in someone else’s care is a big step. We will work with you to make sure the transition goes smoothly. Our program is designed to provide a safe, nurturing environment where your child will learn and develop through play, exploration, and communication. When you step into our infant and waddler classrooms, you’ll see how much we want your child to feel safe, loved, and ready to explore their world.

Trained, caring educators

Our infant and waddler teachers are trained in the best practices of child development and engage in a range of daily activities to keep your child on track for healthy growth! Growth in your child’s key developmental areas is monitored, including social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth.

Why our program works

Our teachers engage our youngest learners through singing, moving, dancing, reading, and other unique, individualized playing and learning experiences. The Creative Curriculum® is a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that helps teachers and caregivers understand developmentally appropriate practice and how to offer nurturing daily routines and meaningful experiences that meet children’s strengths, interests, and needs. Each child is accepted and appreciated as an individual, and our educators strive to provide them with skills for a lifetime of learning!

Providing a safe and nurturing environment that promotes healthy growth and development is at the heart of Duck Hollow Discovery Learning Center’s toddler program! This program builds on developments made in your child’s infancy. Using the Creative Curriculum and Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Standards, our toddler program promotes language development and group interaction.

A comprehensive approach

Our toddler educators are specially trained to help children thrive during their toddler years! Your toddler’s development is continually noted and assessed based on the “Gold” teaching strategies assessment tool, used to see if the weekly, themed lessons planned are effective for your student.

What does my toddler learn?

Toddlers in our program begin to learn the structure of group circle time, are encouraged to sit with each other in short, small group play times where songs and finger signals are used to learn the basics about body parts, shapes, colors, and counting.

No-COST pre-school is available to children who qualify for the Pre-K Counts program, which includes family-specific qualification standards. Contact us today to learn more about Pre-K Counts, or explore our Private Pre-Kindergarten program’s details below!

Duck Hollow Discovery Learning Center’s pre-kindergarten program is designed to meet the needs of your child in developmentally appropriate ways. Your children deserve to be respected as an individual with unique interests and learning styles.

Pre-Kindergarten curriculum

Employing the Creative Curriculum coupled with the Pennsylvania’s Early Learning Standards, our teachers are educated in the best practices available in early childhood education. Our program offers a high quality early education curriculum as well as prepares our students emotional, socially, and academically for kindergarten.

Educational staff

Our pre-k teachers are highly educated in their fields and possess associate, bachelor and even master’s degrees, in addition to their professional teaching certifications. Our instructors provide hands-on learning through guided play and “learning through play” activities. This is a long-lasting approach to learning.