Early Learning
Growing Your Child's Heart, Brain and Body
What is on this site?
The Columbia Child Development Program is proud of our knowledgeable and experienced teaching staff. We want them to be a resource for you even after your child has left their classroom. For this reason, we've created a set of videos for you and your child that will bring our teachers expertise into your home.
Is your child worried about going to the Dentist? Let our preschool actors show that it's not that bad. Do you want to know how to help your child deal with strong feelings? Check out our Positive Behavior Support videos. In these enjoyable videos, our staff will present some fun, easy, and inexpensive activities, and talk about the ways you can use them to prepare your child for success in school.
Developed as part of a STEAM program funded by ALCOA and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, these videos were created in collaboration with Rand Whipple of the Box of Light Studio.
Featured Video: Parents
The most important thing you can do to get your child ready for Kindergarten? For a lifetime of learning?
The CCDP experts have a few tips for you.
Featured Video: Kids
Weird & wild green screen (blue actually) film!
We put up a blue screen background at the Sullivan Center and the kids just disappeared! (Anything blue; eyes, shirts, helmets vanished.) The vocab word for the day? Invisible!
More ideas and activities from our teachers.
Activities: Your Home is a Classroom
Take a look at some fun, easy, inexpensive activities that you can do at home.
Take a look at some fun, easy, inexpensive activities that you can do at home.
PBS: Positive Behavior Support
Helping your child become happier, more confident and expressive helps them (and you).
It's natural for your child to be nervous about entering preschool. These videos will help calm those fears.
We all talk to our children and we all read to our children but here are some things you can do to supercharge those interactions.
In these videos, teaching artists talk you through their classroom activities.