We Love our Teachers!

At The Academy of Heritage Commons we pride ourselves in our teachers. Without our teachers we wouldn't be able to provide the quality of care that we do. Ms. Samantha is a very special toddler teacher that has been with us for quite some time now. She is a certified school teacher but has found a passion for working with our one year old friends! She is always going above and beyond in her position here at The Academy. 

Last week she took it upon herself to make one little girl in her class feel very special. We have a little friend who is in the process of learning sign language as her main form of communication. Ms. Samantha had two shirts made for this sweet little girl. One shirt had the signs that spell LOVE (perfect for Valentine's Day) and the other signed her name. What a sweet way to connect with a child and her family. We asked Ms. Samantha what made her decide to do this, and she simply said "because I love her." She makes a point to make a connection with all of her families and that shows through these small acts of kindness we see consistently from Ms. Samantha. 

We love our Academy teachers!

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Meet Our New Assistant Director, Ms. Ambrosha

We would like to introduce Ms. Ambrosha Miller to our AoHC family. As Ms. Christine grows with our company and becomes a Director, Ms. Ambrosha will be here to fill the Assistant Director position. She is very excited about getting to know our families and we are happy to have her! Below you can learn more about Ambrosha, her family and her childcare experience.

My name is Ambrosha Miller and I am going to be the new Assistant Director at AOHC. I live in Columbia with my husband and our two boys, River(7) and Phoenix (8 weeks). I am originally from Tucson, AZ and moved to TN in 2004.

I started college as a Chemistry major, but quickly switched to Education. As soon as I made this switch I landed a position as a teacher's assistant at a Montessori Preschool. I continued at the Montessori Preschool as a lead teacher for 4 years. During this time, I fell in love with the kids and decided to work on my degree in Early Childhood Education. 

In my years in TN I have held a few positions in the classroom, mostly Pre-K. I took a break to work for an internet start up company and held numerous management positions as the company grew. While I had a very successful career I missed the fun I had with the kids. So when the company was bought out, it was a perfect opportunity to apply for another teaching position at a local preschool.

I was so excited when I found the open position for Assistant Director here at AOHC. I knew it would be the perfect blend of my Early Childhood and management experience. From the moment I stepped inside the school I knew I had to work for this company! You can imagine how ecstatic I was when I was offered the position. 

My son, Phoenix is 8 weeks old and is in our Infant 1 class and my son River catches a ride on our bus and loves the TASK class! The care that is given to my children and every other child in our care lets me know I am in the right place and look forward to growing in my new home!

Happy New Year!

At AoHC we wanted to celebrate the end of 2015 with our school friends. On New Year's Eve we had a big party for all of our kiddos out in the enrichment room. The party was complete with party hats, bazookas, and decorations. We even had TWO surprise balloon drops! We actually made our own balloon drops. Click here to learn how to make your own at home!

PreK 3 ready to party!

Some of our toddler friends.

Party Time!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!!!!!

Happy New Year!!

A big mess...

...but so much fun!

Our TASK friends were kind enough to help us clean up after our little friends went back to class. It is so nice to have some school aged helpers in the building when you need them!

Our New Year party was so much fun and will now become a tradition! Happy 2016!!

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Santa Claus Came to Town!

Our friends love coming in everyday for our continental breakfast, but weren't they surprised when Santa was waiting for them one morning! So many of the kiddos were beyond excited to see Santa waiting them out in our enrichment room. Some of them ate breakfast then went to see him, but others just couldn't wait and ran right over!

Patiently waiting their turn.

What do you want for Christmas?

When is it our turn?

Siblings!

The whole family (minus daddy!)

Big smiles!

Baby and big brother

Waving goodbye to the children

Happy Holidays from all of us at AoHC! We hope that you have had a memory filled, fun holiday season!

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Santa Baby

Our babies are all ready for Christmas next week. Check out these precious little ones sporting their Santa hats. 

So sweet!

Hi!

Silly girl!

Precious!

Santa and the reindeer!

We love our little Santa babies at AoHC! 

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Gift Wrapping Fun

We were like little elves yesterday wrapping gifts for our families. Each year we offer for our families to come in with their gifts and we will package and wrap them for each family. We label them and have them waiting at the end of the day. Our families are so thankful for this, especially the ones with multiple kiddos!

Wrapping Fun

All the kids love Elf on the Shelf! 

Toys galore!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

We love helping our families anyway that we can! 

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Hanging our Ornaments

All of our classrooms made ornaments to hang on our school Christmas tree. We had so many beautiful ornaments that we had to set up two trees. The kiddos loved getting to help decorate our trees for their school! Check out just a few of the festive and creative ornaments below!

One of our trees

Great job!

Cute Rudolph

PreK 3 ornaments

PreK 2 ornaments

Pre-School Two ornaments

Toddler 2 ornaments

Toddler 1 ornaments

So much fun!

This friend wanted to hang his ornament high!

Merry Christmas

We are so lucky to have such creative teachers and students here at AoHC! Click here for a few fun ideas of diy ornaments and crafts to do around the holidays.

For more information about our program and the activities we do click here.