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General
Information: The Learning Center!, a K-8th North Carolina charter school, offers a tuition-free,
quality choice in public education based on
multi-learning styles that produce real
academic progress resulting in independent
learners.
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The school serves grades
K-8th. Additionally, a
private Montessori preschool on site serves as a feeder program to
the charter school. Our curriculum focuses on the Four Blocks
approach to literacy, also using this same multi-style learning approach
in Houghton Mifflin math. History/social studies and
technology are taught across the curriculum.
Extra (non-academic) programs include: Physical Education, Chorus, Art,
Far Out Foods Venture and Garden-Based
Learning. Please select the link above to receive more in-depth
information on individual programs. If the link above is not active
it is because we are in the process of developing a page to provide more
in-depth information.
General information regarding the
programs we are still creating pages for is provided below.
In January 2003, our “Garden-Based
Learning” Program was implemented in our classrooms. This
gardening program is one aspect of the much larger Far Out Foods
Venture, "serving westernmost North Carolina and beyond.” The
Far
Out Foods Venture project is underway with the help of connections
made possible through the Oprah Big Dream Contest. In 2004 we
added “Small Bites” nutrition education.
Art is currently offered once a week.
Chorus is offered four days a week.
The school holds an annual art show
and numerous choral performances.
Yet one more extra is our Mini and Middle REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning) program.
Many other extras are included in our
setting: students involved in community league sports, host to the
annual community-wide Monster Mash Bash Halloween Carnival for
preschool thru 8th grades, annual entry in the Murphy Christmas
Parade, and, at Valentines Day, the Sweetheart Ball.
In the diverse
setting of our school you will often find students mentoring other students
or a parent volunteer actively assisting in the classroom or with some
project outside the classroom. We work toward creating a sense of community
and instilling in our students a sense of responsibility to that community.
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Sponsored by
Dotty Boudreaux Hays, Owner/Broker |
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