Creative Childhood, Inc.

The goal of our school is to provide children with an exciting, age appropriate environment that supports social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth and development. We believe that the prepared environment is the first curriculum. It is a unique, child centered, and play based environment. Our "Creative Alternative" classrooms include many well defined activity centers filled with plenty of hands on materials. Art, science and sensory play, dramatic play, blocks and transportation, table games, books, puzzles, math and literacy materials, and much more, invite children to interact, explore, create, and learn. This reflects our philosophy that "A child's WORK is his PLAY!"

We are both a NAEYC accredited and Quality Rated center, and we use The Creative Curriculum framework. We know that young children need to use all their senses in learning, so we provide many opportunities for concrete, hands on learning. Our child-teacher ratios are much lower than Georgia state ratios, as we follow both NAEYC and QR ratios. We believe that excellent child-teacher ratios help each teacher work with the individual needs of every child in their group.

We are especially proud of the very low turnover rate we have with our teaching staff. Over 80% of our staff members have been with our program for more than 5 years, with a big handful that have been a part of the MMS family for 15-20 years! We have a wonderful relationship with Savannah Technical College, whose Early Childhood Education students complete their practicums and internships in our classrooms, receiving hands on training from our very experienced staff members.