Uni-vision Childcare

Uni-Vision Childcare is Lancaster County's first Spanish Immersion childcare center. We are a state recognized learning center, offering the only Spanish based early childhood curriculum in our area.
Our mission is to, first and foremost, provide a safe, nurturing, loving, high quality, educational environment that maximizes intellectual, physical and emotional growth and development in our young students. Our second most important mission, which distinguishes us from other high-quality preschool and daycare centers, is to foster the acquisition and development of a foreign language as important as Spanish. We believe the gift of language is an investment that lasts a lifetime!
This is a truly new and innovative concept in childcare with a specially designed curriculum that focuses on the bilingual language development in our young students. The fastest and most effective way to achieve fluency in a language is through immersion. At Uni-Vision, our students are immersed in a full Spanish class, meaning that teaching and interaction is conducted entirely in Spanish. This provides an environment where no translation and no memorization are needed, just seamless acquisition of a second language. Through the duration of it, our students learn every day and applicable themes (daily interactions, colors, numbers, shapes, routines, commands etc.).
Our program offers students the ability to become bilingual at a very young age. Exposure to a second language should begin as early as possible. The chances of achieving full fluency in another language are much higher if study is begun in the first five years of life, since the human brain is wired to learn language during this critical period. Our students will be able to speak and understand both English and Spanish. Unlike learning a language later in life, young children typically do not feel inhibited or scared to speak a new language. Research shows that learning a second language enhances intellectual development and improves overall school performance. It also shows that bilingual students gain additional academic, cognitive and employment benefits later in life. Spanish is the most useful language to know in the United States in the 21st Century. Students will become accustomed to hearing the Spanish language through sensory-rich activities, movement, music, play and a strong literature component.