Empower a Child’s Future: Support Early Childhood Scholarships to Shape Young Lives!
The cost of living continues to rise. Many families are unable to afford childcare, but a socially healthy learning environment is ESSENTIAL for children to be successful in school. (see stats below).
PLEASE consider helping a child today by donating to our scholarship program.
The average costs are below, and you can enter the amount of your monthly or one-time support HERE
TODDLER
Avg Annual Cost $7,500
All Aboard has capacity for 24 one and two year olds.
PRESCHOOL
Avg Annual Cost $6,800
All Aboard has capacity for 40 three and four year olds.
BEFORE & AFTER SCHOOL
Avg Annual Cost $5,500
All Aboard has capacity for 32 before and after school students
WISH LIST FROM THE TEACHERS
Wishlist for AALC
Big Wish List:
- Landscaping- 4 trees @$600 a piece-$2400
- Landscaping-Flagpole area update-$2400
- Building updates-Floor strip/was-$2785.50
CLASSROOM SUPPLY LIST:
Multiples of items listed below. We have 32 children enrolled in the school age class.
- Assorted outside balls-multiples of each of the following.
- Soccer balls
- Footballs
- Basketballs
- Playground balls
- Boomerangs
- Nerf Vortex Acro Howler Neon Foam Football
- Velcro Toss-n-catch ball sets
- Plastic horse shoe set
- Wiffle ball/bat sets
- Large trucks/cars to push around on playground
- Tug-o-war rope
- Sack race sacks
- Jumbo four to score 4 in a row game
- Outdoor bean bag toss game
- Giant tic tac toe game with LED light
- Matchbox cars and motorcycles
CRAFT SUPPLIES:
- Construction paper
- Stickers
- Stencils
- Tiletown Jurrasic World Gate Escape Magnetic Tiles
- Musical instrument sets
- Sensory autistic spinning chair
- Magnetic tiles
- Busy board wooden sensory table
- Schylling NeeDoh Gummy bear-sensory fidget toy
- Demilong squishy sensory toys
- SuperZ outlet liquid motion bubbler for sensory play
- Aukit 550 piece fidget toys for stress relief, sensory, autism, weak magnetic putty
- Silicone sensory activity cube
- Minecraft magnetic blocks
All Aboard Learning Center opened its doors in October 2004 and has been focused for 16 years on our graduates being Kindergarten Ready. All Aboard is the ONLY accredited pre-school and certified Eat Smart and Move Smart program in Crawford County!
All Aboard Learning Center is under the not-for-profit umbrella of the Crawford County Foundation and serves over 100 children a year in a licensed, accredited, and nurturing environment that collaborates with the community to ensure we reach ALL children. Early childhood care and education is critical for the long-term success of a child’s future.
Did you know that statistically*, children who are kindergarten ready, there is an 82% chance that child will master basic skills by age 11, compared with a 45% chance for children who are not school ready.
- Child care quality has a long-term effect on children’s cognitive and socio-emotional development through kindergarten and beyond. Preschool reduced the percentage of children repeating a grade by 15%.
- Children who enter kindergarten behind their peers academically are more likely to stay or fall behind.
- High-quality early childhood education reduces children’s timidity and improves attentiveness.
- High-quality early learning programs aimed at disadvantaged children help close the achievement gap, increasing IQ scores by up to 10 points.
- Early learning and care increases high school graduation rates 14%.
