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Toddler to Pre-K Summer Camp | 1 - 4 Years​ | Serving McLean, VA

Toddler to Pre-K Summer Camp

Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 6:00 pm

Academics + Fun Activities = Guaranteed Excitement

The excitement of learning never stops, even during summer break! Your child enjoys fun weekly themes, take-home projects, balloon animals, ice cream socials, popsicle days, magic shows, water Fridays, T.E.A Center t-shirts, recycle bags, achievement certificates, awards, and more!
Academics + Fun Activities = Guaranteed Excitement
Healthy AM & PM Snacks Included In Your Tuition

Healthy AM & PM Snacks Included In Your Tuition

You supply lunch, and we provide healthy snacks! Your little one uses lots of energy during summer camp, so teachers keep them raring to go with delicious catered morning and afternoon snacks that adhere to child nutritional guidelines.

Breakfast & PM Snacks Are Included!
Option To Add Lunches For An Additional Cost

Outdoor Play Fosters Imagination & Creativity

Your little leader goes outside every day to run, jump, and slide on the play structure, have imaginative adventures with friends, and spend time in nature taking in the sun’s vitamin D to stimulate creativity and foster good physical and mental health.
Outdoor Play Fosters Imagination & Creativity
Spending Time With Friends & Creating Lasting Memories

Spending Time With Friends & Creating Lasting Memories

Your camper fills their days creating magical moments and lasting memories with friends! They learn how to be a great leader through many team-building exercises and build crucial social-emotional skills like cooperation and empathy that will carry them through life.

Be Part Of All The Fun With Your Parent App

Never miss a magical moment with your handy Brightwheel™ parent app. Be part of all the fun your little camper has with adorable pictures and videos, daily updates, direct messages with teachers, and more.
Be Part Of All The Fun With Your Parent App
Spectacular Weekly Themes Like Art, STEM, Disney, & More

Spectacular Weekly Themes Like Art, STEM, Disney, & More

Themed camps combine academics with playful and whimsical activities to give your little one a summer to remember. Fun weekly themes include Art, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), Disney, Dr.Seuss, Dance, and Nature.

Nature based curriculum and program to blossom the young mindful leader

Nature education is vital for fostering happy children and, subsequently, content adults. The World Happiness Report underscores the role of regular nature connection in personal well-being. Even in an Unburn neighborhood, the T.E.A. Center offers a nature-based holistic curriculum, aiming to instill environmental leadership in children. This equips them to be effective advocates and conservation leaders in their communities, contributing to a happier and sustainable future.

Session Dates for Toddler - Pre-K Summer Camp 2024

Week 1: July 8 - July 12
Dance Leadership Camp

Week 2: July 15-July 19
Sports Leadership Camp

Week 3: July 22 – July 26
STEM Leadership Camp

Week 4: July 29 – August.2
Nature Leadership Camp

Week 5: August 5 – August 9
Art Leadership Camp

Week 6: August 12 – August 16
Space Leadership Camp

Week 7: August 19 – August 23
Dr. Seuss Camp

Week 8: August 26– August 30
Disney Camp

Session Dates for Toddler - Pre-K Summer Camp 2024

Week 1: July 8 - July 12
Dance Leadership Camp

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Week 1: July 8 - July 12
Dance Leadership Camp

Week 2: July 24 – July 28
Having A Blast At Art Camp

Your little artist delves into a world of creativity and imagination by exploring art in all its forms. They create masterpieces as they work on 2D and 3D art projects, including studio clay projects taught by experts.

Week 3: July 31 – Aug 4
STEM Focused

The preschool STEM camp offers a hands-on science and math experience they won’t want to miss! Your child engages in various fun experiments, including helping to grow butterflies and ladybugs.

Week 4: Aug 7 – Aug 11
Dance Focused

Your camper lightens their feet with an introduction to modern, jazz, hip-hop, ballet, and contemporary dance. They stay active and gain confidence as they practice techniques and create choreographed dance routines.

Week 5: Aug 14 – Aug 18
Nature Focused

This week your child learns all about nature’s beauty. After 5 days of hands-on, outdoor, and experiential activities that promote exploration and discovery, your little camper emerges as an environmentally responsible citizen of the natural world.

Week 6: Aug 21 – Aug 25
Dr. Seuss Camp

Dr. Seuss activities grow a love of rhyming, adventure, and silly stories. Your little explorer learns about culture and travel through reading, art, games, memorable pictures, character meetings, phonics, alliteration, and much more! Oh, the places we’ll go during this fun-filled week!

Week 7: Aug 28 – Aug 29
Disney Camp

A short camp before the school year starts, filled with fun, new experiences. Both days your child participates in engaging activities and makes lasting memories with friends, including an enchanting Disney tea party!

FAQs

Staff works diligently to keep spaces and surfaces clean and sanitized during the day, and a professional cleaning crew does a deep clean every evening. Air purifiers remove harmful dust, germs, allergens, and irritants to keep everyone healthy and happy.
NOT AT ALL! Most of our parents aren’t bilingual – but many pick up many words and phrases from their children! So if you’ve ever wanted to learn Spanish, French, or Mandarin, you get a little fringe benefit of having your child attend the T.E.A. Center!
Actually, it’s the opposite – studies show that learning additional languages at a young age creates new neural pathways in the brain, which has all sorts of benefits, including a greater ability to focus and task switching – both critical life skills that are a huge advantage in school and future work!
The younger you start with a second (or third!) language, the easier it will be for your child, and the greater the benefits. We begin our immersion program here in the Toddler program with 2 hours of instruction in each language per week.
Yes, there is 1-2 hrs per day. If your child does not nap we have quiet time activities.
Breakfast, Lunch and PM snack are all included.
Follows state licensing standards for each age group. 1 teacher for 10 students in preschool and Prek, however at the TE.A. Center – its 1 teacher for 7 students.

World Language begins at 2 years – toddler program
Spanish – 2 hours per week
Mandarin – 2 hours per week
French- 2 hours per week

No – regular school year – August 1 to June 30 of next year.


Summer camp – register by the week for the months of July and August (optional) and families can start later pending availability and the tuition is prorate by the later start date.

The center is closed on- labor day, Thanksgiving, Winter break (between Christmas and Jan. 1), Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, and Memorial day – for details Contact Us.

We open a limited number of spots – depending availability -Availability- Contact Us.
Please Contact Us to updated fee information.
Our lead teachers hold  PhD’s, Master’s, Bachelor’s degrees, Associate’s degrees in early childhood education or a minimum CDA.

Assistant Teachers- Holds Bachelor’s degrees, Associate’s degrees, or working towards a CDA. All Teachers and staff are certified in CPR and First Aid, and have Continuing Education and some have Food Handler certificates. All leads teachers have 100+ hrs of T.E.A. Center Standards and Curriculum training with continuing education of 40+ hrs annually.

Teacher qualifications
State T.E.A. Center Staff
12 hrs 40 +hrs
Lead education CDA PhD to CD’s
Lead Training hrs to start 0 100 hrs

The average tenure of teachers is 2+ years  

The average tenure of our leadership is 5+ years. Rest assured of the consistency of care and administration of policies and procedures.

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