Special Resources

Our special resources include art, library, Spanish, music and movement, physical education, yoga, an onsite farm, and a TimberNook program.

Art

Art education begins in young children as sensory exploration.

We believe the arts play a crucial role creating well-rounded, well-prepared learners and leaders. Our Art program offers students the chance to become familiar with different famous artists and their impact on the world, while learning introductory, foundational Art skills and concepts. Check out our young artists!

Music and Movement

Music is a language we all share.

Exposure to music during early childhood has profound effects in the brains of our young learners. As with language development, young ears learn music naturally through hearing and participating in rhythm and melodies. Repetition and movement encourage fine and gross motor development as they shake a tambourine, pick a guitar, or twirl in the air. Children laugh, dance, and play instruments alongside their peers, developing their confidence, pride, and friendships.

Physical Education

In Collage’s Physical Education Program, we focus on helping children discover and explore a diverse selection of activities that promote a lifelong healthy lifestyle. Our curriculum includes opportunities in physical, social, and emotional health education. The encouragement of risk taking, problem solving, choice, and self-challenge afford children an opportunity to learn about themselves in a safe and supportive environment.

Yoga

Enlightening Minds. Opening Hearts. Empowering Children.

Our yoga classes are play-based, designed to meet kids where they are at and instill the benefits of yoga in the youngest of yogis. In yoga class, children challenge their bodies and their minds as they build strength, focus, and friendships. The curriculum is simple: move, breathe, sing, dance and laugh!

Horticulture

Learning about the natural world provides children an endless source of fascination. Enticing them to put their hands in the soil and their noses into flowers, a garden offers students a chance to fully immerse themselves in the experience of education. Only two generations ago, comfort and knowledge about the outdoors were normal parts of children’s daily lives. In Horticulture class, kids get these sensory experiences back, as students help clear weeds, water, fertilize, dig, plant, and discuss the amazing processes that bring healthy, nutritious foods from our gardens to our plates.

STEAM

STEAM is an approach to learning that results in children who take thoughtful risks, engage in hands-on learning, persist in problem solving, embrace collaboration, and work through the creative process.

STEAM adds the arts into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) and focuses on using technology to teach art practices, elements, and design principles.

Innovation is the difference between simply using technology and taking it beyond the instruction manual to bring ideas to life. The children that sign up for our STEAM programs will learn to take their ideas to the next level through advanced technology.

Timbernook

TimberNook intricately weaves the therapeutic aspects of nature with its unique understanding of child development to create an outdoor program that supports every aspect of the growing child. Every TimberNook setting and activity is carefully analyzed for its therapeutic value. Each activity provides the opportunity for children to utilize all of their senses to the fullest. Our curriculum encourages complex social interactions, reasonable risk-taking, problem solving, fine motor skills, balance and overall strength, independent thought, tactile (touch) processing, proprioceptive (joint/muscle awareness) processing, multilevel learning, motor planning, and creativity.

Most importantly, TimberNook reveals the fun in outdoor play. Our students do everything from re-creating stories in nature to building elaborate designs and structures out in the woods to having enchanted forest. Unstructured free play is incorporated into every day, and children take the lead. Collage is a licensed provider of Timbernook.com

“Nature is the ultimate sensory experience.” — Angela Hanscom, MOT, OTR/L (Founder and CEO, TimberNook)

Learning Enrichment

Our Learning Enrichment Achievement Program is for students needing moderate to intensive assistance in their personalized curriculum

What is Learning Enrichment Achievement Program is for students needing moderate to intensive assistance in their personalized curriculum?

Learning Enrichment Achievement Program is for students needing moderate to intensive assistance in their personalized curriculum is designed to optimize instruction for students in the domains of curriculum and learning, social/emotional, communication, and independent functioning during the school day. Students receive instruction from a teacher(s) trained in various modalities and learning methods to ensure the needs of each student are met. Students work with the teacher and support staff to create a prescriptive schedule to allow for students to progress with individual learning, social emotional, communication, and independent functioning goals. Teachers provide weekly progress monitoring to ensure the students are making progress towards these goals.

Learning Enrichment Achievement Program is for students needing moderate to intensive assistance in their personalized curriculum has three tiers of instruction. Students are evaluated prior to acceptance to determine the Level. Students in this program have access to various research based curriculum such as Wilson Reading System, Seeing Stars Reading Program, Visualizing and Verbalizing For Cognitive Development, and On Cloud Nine for Math. A specific curriculum is determined after the student has been evaluated based on the individual needs of each student. At that time, the staff of Collage Day School meet with the parents, therapists and teacher to create the student’s individualized schedule and ensure the student has the ability to transition into the grade level classroom for resource, recess, lunch, field trips, academic areas of strength, and all other grade level activities.

Consultation

Students enrolled in the Consultation Program are included in the general education setting for all learning activities. The student’s teacher, family, and Case Manager collaborate to create goal(s) for the student’s Academic Student Achievement Plan (ASAP) targeting the domain(s) in which the student needs additional monitoring and support– Curriculum and Learning, Social/Emotional behavior, Independent Functioning and Communication. The student’s Case Manager works together with the student’s teacher to accommodate the student within the classroom and work toward meeting annual goals developed by the team. The Case Manager also monitors progress toward the goals in the ASAP and collaborate with teachers and families alike to support the student’s growth and achievement of these goals.

Inclusion

Students enrolled in the Inclusion Program receive a portion of their core instruction from a Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher. This instruction is either ‘push-in’ or ‘pull-out’ depending on student need. The student’s Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher, classroom teacher and family collaborate to create a Prescriptive Education Plan (PEP) targeting the domain(s) in which the student needs additional monitoring and support. These domains include Curriculum and Learning, Social/Emotional Behavior, Independent Functioning and Communication. The Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher collaborates with the general education teacher to develop accommodations that help the student flourish in the general education setting. Inclusion students participate in the same assessment calendar as those in the general education classroom. These students attend lunch, recess, resource, and all other scheduled activities, such as field trips and Timbernook with their grade-level class. The Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teachers work closely with the student’s grade level teacher to transition the student into the general education setting for all academic areas of strength when appropriate.

Immersion

Students enrolled in the Immersion Program attend Palm Valley Child Development Center (185 Landrum Lane, Ponte Vedra 32082) and receive all of their core tuition from a Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher. The student’s Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher, classroom teacher and family collaborate to create a Prescriptive Education Plan (PEP) targeting the domain(s) in which the student needs additional support– Curriculum and Learning, Social/Emotional Behavior, Independent Functioning and Communication. The Learning Enrichment Achievement Program Teacher accommodates student needs by modifying the curriculum in order to work toward achieving mastery of foundational skills necessary to progress and re-integrate into the general education setting for academics when/if appropriate. Students participating in this programming have access to recess, resource, and all other scheduled activities, such as field trips and Timbernook with their grade-level class when inclusion criteria is met. As students’ progress in the Immersion Program, they have the opportunity to transition into the Inclusion Program.