ENRICHMENT
PROGRAMS.

Music, science, dance, soccer and more — included in our weekly curriculum.

PROGRAMS VARY
BY LOCATION.

Soccer, Tae Kwon Do, music, dance, and yoga with trained instructors.

OUTDOOR
LEARNING.

Science, art, and garden spaces that support hands-on discovery.

Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

Music Garden.

Our enrichment programs are designed to enhance your child's learning experience through various activities and specialized instruction. There is music in the air in our one-of-a-kind MUSIC GARDEN. Our music garden celebrates traditional as well as multi-cultural instruments from around the world. We will hear special stories about the lands from which each instrument comes from, sing their native songs, and learn to appreciate music as a universal language.

  • Improves listening skills, creativity, participation and self-expression
  • Encourages movement, fine and gross motor skills
  • Fosters a sense of community and belonging
  • Encourages movement, fine and gross motor skills
  • Stimulates language development, cognitive and memory skills
Children playing world instruments in the Music Garden at Academy on the Hills in Aliso Viejo
Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

ECO-Art Studio.

Art is fundamental to the growth of the child. It is a form of visual communication using colors, lines, shapes, and the imagination in place of words; thus, giving birth to an important creative process. Children will be inspired by the colors, sounds, and textures of nature as they discover, paint, and sculpt outdoors.

  • Visual communication through colors, lines, shapes, and imagination
  • Inspired by the colors, sounds, and textures of nature
  • They will create exciting ECO-ART projects using materials found in nature
  • ECO-ART projects created using materials found in nature
Child painting at an outdoor easel in the ECO-Art Studio at Academy on the Hills
Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

Dance & Fitness.

Our dance and fitness sessions explore a range of styles and use props to draw every child in, whatever their confidence level.

  • Explores ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, folk and lyrical dance
  • Improves physical and cognitive development
  • Encourages self-expression, creativity, and socialization
  • Strengthens gross motor skills, flexibility, and natural rhythm
  • Uses props, scarves, streamers and bubbles to encourage participation
Children dancing with colorful scarves outdoors at Academy on the Hills in Aliso Viejo
Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

Tae Kwon Do.

A form of non-contact karate that teaches children movements to energize the body and practice breathing, alongside the discipline that goes with it.

  • A form of non-contact karate
  • Teaches movements to energize and practice breathing
  • Introduces meditation techniques
  • Encourages respect, patience, and team work
  • Helps build self-esteem and confidence
  • Improves hand-eye coordination
Young children practicing non-contact tae kwon do forms at Academy on the Hills
Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

Science Adventures.

Children learn about the world around them through their senses. Our developmentally appropriate curriculum stimulates inquiry, interest, and verbalization. We encourage curiosity by staging the environment for scientific thinking, predictions, experiments and conclusions.

  • Introduces students to the wonders of science
  • Experiments with Earth, life, and physical science activities
  • A variety of hands-on experiments offer exciting learning opportunities in observation skills and problem solving
  • Hands-on experiments that build observation skills and problem solving
Children and a teacher conducting a hands-on science experiment outdoors at Academy on the Hills
Included in Our Weekly Curriculum

Soccer.

Weekly group sessions by age give every child regular time on the field, whatever their starting point.

  • Weekly group sessions by age
  • Improves gross motor skills, social camaraderie, team play and self-confidence
  • Increases fitness, core muscle strength, flexibility, and coordination
  • Builds leadership skills
  • Promotes fitness and health
Children playing soccer in a weekly group session at Academy on the Hills
Outdoor Learning Spaces

Room to Learn Outdoors.

We are proud to offer our students not only a safe, clean, inviting classroom but additional learning spaces outdoors. Our preschool children enjoy our Outdoor Learning Center for a variety of fun, safe, messy, hands-on learning experiments as well as painting, sculpting, and creating masterpieces. From outdoor story time, music with friends, planting in our garden, to any of our many thematic academic lessons, children truly benefit from the change in environment, fresh air, sunshine, and open spaces.

  • Science Center — children can explore, experiment, and hypothesize
  • Art Center — a space for sculpting, painting, and creating
  • Garden Area — classrooms plant, tend, and harvest their own crops as well as observe plant life cycles
Children tending plants in the garden area at Academy on the Hills in Aliso Viejo
All Programs Included

Enrichment at No Extra Cost.

All enrichment lessons are included in our weekly curriculum — no extra fees. Programs vary by location. Contact us to learn what's available at your nearest campus.