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Children
on Campus:
Children's
Creative Learning Center at FIU:
The Children's Center is an Nationally Accredited (NAEYC)
Educational Research Center for Child Development that provides
appropriate hands-on experiences for children of students,
staff, faculty, alumni, and the neighboring community.
The Center offers
an educational preschool program, including enrichment activities.
The curriculum is built around educational concepts with an
emphasis on critical thinkign skills, decision making, problem
solving and emergent literacy. Activities focus on the chidlren's
interests in the content areas of art, music, puppety, movement,
science, cooking, dramatic play, indoor/outdoor play, writing
process, storytelling, math experiences and developmental
tasks.
Frequent visitors
to the program include: Fire/Police Department personnel,
Dental/Vision/Speech/Hearing Screening, Forest Rangers, Bee
Keepers, Farm animals and more.
Children between
the ages of 2 ½ and 5 years old (toilet trained) are
eligible for enrollment. If you are interested in visiting
or would like more information, please call 305.348.2143 or
visit online at www.fiu.edu/~children.
Financial
Aid:
Students who are eligible or recipients of a Pell grant and
can meet other criteria may receive a partial subsidy to cover
their child's registration fee, supply fee and Center tuition.
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