In response to the recent closure of multiple nearby K3 locations, St. Ann Center for Intergenerational Care has opened a new K3 program at its Bucyrus Campus, 2450 W. North Ave.
The new K3 program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday, with space available to 16 students. The program is staffed by Sr. Anne Theresa Anyiro, who earned a Master of Arts in Education from Mount Mary University. Valarie Turner, who has more than 18 years of child care experience, serves as assistant teacher.
Sr. Anne Theresa Anyiro guides her charges through play and rest.
Focused on learning through play — and embracing the same kind, compassionate care parents have relied on as part of St. Ann Center childcare programs for years — the new preschool will prepare children for success in K4 and beyond by:
- Empowering students to guide their own learning experience
- Creating a culture of collaborative learning and working together
- Encouraging safe risk-taking and experimentation
- Promoting imaginative thinking
- Recognizing and accepting the different emotions play can create
Sometimes a good snooze makes it easier to learn.
“I do have a lot of experience in this community, I know a lot about it and what this area needs,” says St. Ann Center Bucyrus Campus Director of Childcare and Education, Bao Xiong, who spearheads the new K3 program. and is a veteran of day care and preschool education communities in both Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. “A lot of our children and families don’t have access to transportation [to get to other early childhood programs]. This neighborhood needs a quality K-3 program.”
Xiong also notes the high ratio of special needs learners in the Bucyrus Campus neighborhood — students she is eager to accommodate in the sunny, toy-filled classroom with large windows, plenty of room for imaginative play and two private bathrooms.
The K3 classroom at St. Ann Center Bucyrus Campus features bright colors and plenty of places and ways to learn.
St. Ann Center also offers parents the opportunity to build a childcare schedule that works best for their family, adding wraparound childcare to their child’s K3 programming. The Bucyrus Campus is open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. St. Ann Center accepts the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy to families who qualify.
To enroll your child in the St. Ann Center Bucyrus Campus K3 program, or for more information about the program, contact Bao Xiong at BXiong@stanncenter.org or (414)210-2465.