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Child Development Center Overview

Covenant’s Child Development Center is a 5-star program licensed by the N.C. Division of Child Development. We offer a year-round program for children six weeks to five years of age. Located in the Dilworth community, our mission is to provide high quality child care and education to children from a variety of backgrounds.

The center operates Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in a new state of the art facility.

• Classrooms are housed within a defined, secure area of the Covenant campus. Entrances are accessible only by staff, family and guardians of students.
• Our fully qualified staff has experience in early childhood care and education.
• We offer enrichment programs that broaden and deepen classroom curriculum and help bring concepts and lessons to life.
• All children enjoy daily playtime in our new, dynamic outdoor learning environments.
• Nutritious snacks and lunch are provided on-site daily.

Monthly Tuition and Fees

• Infants: $1,475 monthly (16 children)
• Toddlers: $1,400 monthly (20 children)
• Twos: $1,325 monthly (16 children)
• Threes: $1,225 monthly (18 children)
• Fours: $1,225 monthly (18 children)

There is a $100 enrollment fee for each child enrolled. 

Child Development Center online interest form

Enrollment Forms

Once you have been accepted at Covenant’s Child Development Center the below forms will be required to enroll your child(ren).   Please print, complete and return to Janice Price, Director of Schools, at Covenant Presbyterian Church Child Development Center.

Checklist
Covenant Child Development Application
Parent Agreement Form
Emergency Care Form
Children’s Medical Form and Immunization Records
Travel and Activity Authorization
Infant Feeding Plan (If Applicable)
Infant/Toddler Safe Sleep Form (If Applicable)
Acknowledgement of the NC Child Care Laws and Rules Brochure
Prevention of Shaken Baby and Abusive Head Trauma Form
Tobacco-Free Policy for North Carolina Child Care Centers
Covenant Presbyterian Church Photography and Publicity Policy Form
Documentation of Discussion of Parent Participation Plan
Parent Handbook

Our commitment to opportunity

Financial Assistance

Central to preparing our young students for this world and ensuring the highest quality of education is creating a diverse classroom community within the CDC.  Research shows that a diverse environment leads to better learning outcomes for all students.  As part of Covenant’s commitment to serving families from a variety of backgrounds, the CDC has established a scholarship endowment for those in need of financial assistance. We seek to serve a school community that reflects our city, both socio-economically and culturally.

Our financial assistance program will support at least 1 in 4 of the Child Development Center’s children by providing up to 50 percent of the monthly tuition. Financial assistance amounts are based upon a family’s ability to meet tuition expenses, availability of seats in age-appropriate classrooms and availability of funds.

The Application Process – What to Expect

1. Review this web page to determine if our program, mission, and philosophy is the right fit for your family.
2. Complete an Covenant Child Development Center online interest form.
3. Read Covenant’s Financial Assistance Information, Application Instructions & Process.
4. Complete the Financial Assistance Questionnaire. 
5. The Financial Assistance Questionnaire will be sent directly to  Janice Price, Director of Schools at Covenant Presbyterian Church.  

ABOUT OUR CURRICULUM

The Program for Infant Toddler Care (PITC)  – A Relationship-Based Curriculum

The goal of PITC is to help infant/toddler care teachers recognize the crucial importance of giving tender, loving care and assisting in the infants’ intellectual development through an attentive reading of each child’s cues. The PITC’s videos, guides, and manuals are designed to help child care managers and infant/toddler care teachers become sensitive to infants’ cues, connect with their family and culture, and develop responsive, relationship-based care. The training materials provide the foundation for a style of care in which infant/toddler care teachers study the infants in their care, reflect on and record information about the children’s interests and skills, and search for ways to set the stage for the child’s next learning encounters.

The Creative Curriculum (6th Edition)

The Creative Curriculum^® for Preschool is a research-based, comprehensive curriculum that features exploration and discovery as a way of learning. The foundational volumes help teachers create a high-quality learning environment and build a thorough understanding of best practices, while the Daily Resources help teachers plan and manage every moment of their day.
As part of the Daily Resources, the Teaching Guides and additional instructional tools provide a wealth of ideas and detailed plans for filling every day with meaningful and engaging experiences designed for all children. Special support helps teachers individualize instruction for English- and dual-language learners in the classroom. What’s more, the curriculum takes the guesswork out of meeting the early learning standards for North Carolina.

Meet our Director of Schools

Janice Price

Janice comes to Covenant Schools after serving as the Director of the Child Development Center at First United Methodist Church for the past 24 years. Before her role in the CDC at First United Methodist Church, Janice served as the Director of Children’s Ministry at a church in Midland, North Carolina. Along with Janice’s wealth of experience in early childhood education, she brings with her a passion for continuing to grow in her knowledge. Janice is pursuing a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education at University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Janice brings tremendous experience and a continued passion for early childhood education. Janice’s care for both the children and families at our Preschool and the CDC and her kindness and belief in the work of early childhood education is palpable. 

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PROGRAM BENEFITS

Thompson Child Development

Center Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC

TCDC prides itself on providing and maintaining the highest quality of care and education of young children. As a student at Thompson Child Development Center, your child will receive an early childhood education that includes all program benefits.

NC Five Star Rating

Charlotte Observer Best 2020 Winner – Children’s Care and Development Facility

Nutritious breakfast, lunch, and snack served daily

Creative curriculum

On-site therapeutic services

Affordable, competitive tuition rates, vouchers welcome

Requirements for staff:child ratios

• Family Support
• Curriculum
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At Thompson, we recognize that children do not develop in a vacuum; as such, we practice a wraparound approach to children’s education and growth. Our program offers many opportunities for families to partner with their children’s teachers, the classroom, and the center as a whole.

By building a strong connection between home and school, our partnership ensures your child’s future success. Families are always welcome at Thompson Child Development Center! We offer…

• • Care for infants and children from 6 weeks to 8 years of age
  • Circle of Parents support group
  • Parent trainings and classes with topics related to child rearing and general family support

Thompson Child Development Center uses The Creative Curriculum for Infant, Toddlers & Twos, and Preschool, a research-proven program that fosters these skills:

• • Social-emotional
  • Physical
  • Language
  • Cognitive
  • Literacy
  • Mathematics
  • Science and Technology
  • Social Studies
  • The Arts

Additionally, The Creative Curriculum provides teachers with the research and tools for Kindergarten Readiness.

Along with Creative Curriculum, teachers assess the development of children using the online assessment tool, Teaching Strategies GOLD®. Teaching Strategies GOLD allows teachers and families to document developmental growth as well as assess it.

Developmental Checkpoint assessments are conducted four times a year. Parent/Teacher Conferences are held two times per year in conjunction with the fall/spring checkpoint assessments, to share the developmental progress of your child with you.

Parents who wish to enroll their child are asked to set up an appointment to:

• • Tour the center
  • Meet the staff
  • Review center operations and policies
  • Secure placement on a waiting list with payment of a non-refundable fee

Contact our center at 704-817-1600 to schedule a tour or for more information.

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In the year of the 95th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov, KP begins a series of publications about the work of the brilliant master of the word

Literary and publishing contacts of writers, poets, publicists, playwrights of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are in constant development and in the orbit of creative interaction. The latest approaches to the study of national literatures, enriching domestic and world literary science, expand the optics of literary text analysis. In the year of the 95th anniversary of the outstanding writer Chingiz Aitmatov, “KP” begins a series of publications about the work of the brilliant master of the word. nine0003

International scientific conferences in Bishkek, London, Ankara, dedicated to the work of the world-famous writer Chingiz Aitmatov, and the scientific collections published as a result of them “Chyngyz Aitmatov Zhana Turk Civilization Son of Renaissance” (Bishkek, 2018), Chingiz Aitmatov. Universal topics (London, 2019) and Bozkirin uyanisi Cengiz Aytmatov (Ankara, 2019), the international anniversary scientific forums “Adamzattyn Aitmatov” and “The World of Ch. Aitmatov” (Almaty, 2018) demonstrated a new reading of the writer’s prose and journalism. nine0003

Chingiz Aitmatov’s prose melts down and recreates the atmospheres of the countries he visited, their history and modernity. This is how comparisons arose, through which one sees one’s own more clearly. The writer not only created works of art about the Kyrgyz and Kazakh peoples, he perceived the national and cultural identity of the people as the property of mankind.

Chingiz Aitmatov, a world-famous writer with a strategic outlook, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Isa Habibbayli, considers the creator of new prose in world literature. nine0003

According to contemporary poet, playwright, translator David William Parry (London), “Chingiz Aitmatov skillfully included national tradition and history in the creation of a new literary text.” David Parry not only translated into English the book-dialogue of Chingiz Aitmatov and Mukhtar Shakhanov “The Lament of the Hunter over the Abyss”, but also considers Chingiz Torekulovich one of the inspirers of the creation of his book “The Grammar of Witchcraft”.

The family of Leo and Charlotte Kossuth in Berlin carefully kept photographs and paintings with autographs of Chingiz Aitmatov, who visited them, and they visited Bishkek. Charlotte Kossuth translated most of the works of the Kyrgyz writer into German, including the novel “And the day lasts longer than a century . ..”. nine0003

The most diverse aspects of the work of the academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the owner of the A. Einstein Gold Medal for outstanding achievements in world science, literature and art, the international V. Hugo Prize are in contact with Kazakhstan, the European and Turkic worlds. In 2007, Chingiz Aitmatov was awarded the highest State Prize of Turkey for his merits in the development of the culture of the Turkic-speaking countries. In February 2008, Aitmatov’s week was held in Azerbaijan, the writer was awarded the Order of Friendship. 2008 was declared the Year of Chingiz Aitmatov in Kyrgyzstan. Aitmatov’s academies are open in Bishkek and London. In Almaty, the Kyrgyz Ethnocultural Center of the Assembly of the People of Kazakhstan on December 12, the writer’s birthday, annually holds Aitmatov’s readings. nine0003

A monument to the writer was erected in Moscow in 2018, and a memorial sign in one of the parks in Minsk. On December 12, 2018, in honor of the 90th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov, the National Library of Belarus, together with the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic, opened a book and illustration exhibition “The Ark of Chingiz Aitmatov”. Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel “And the day lasts longer than a century … A snowy stop” – “Snowstorms paўstanak: the first day of the day in a century” with amazing illustrations by Arlen Kashkurevich was published magnificently in the Belarusian language by the publishing house “Narodnaya Asveta”. nine0003

The life and work of Chingiz Aitmatov are connected with Kazakhstan. He was a regular participant in international forums dedicated to the heritage of outstanding Kazakh poets, writers and major dates celebrated as part of the anniversary events of the UNESCO Calendar of Memorable Dates. Zhambyla Zhabaeva called Chingiz Aitmatov a unique son of humanity and a living monument, emphasizing the especially philosophical side of his works. The poet reflected in his work the tragedy of man, love, his search. The spiritual heritage of Zhambyl Zhabaev is unique and peculiar. Artist and power. Zhambyl could not get around this problem in his work. Akyn and power. What did the poet do for his people as a person who entered into a dialogue with the authorities?!” Literary criticism, Chingiz Aitmatov was sure, had not yet fully answered this question. nine0003

Zhambyl – Abai – Auezov. About each of the peaks of Kazakh literature, Chingiz Aitmatov found accurate and capacious words, figurative comparisons. Meetings with Chingiz Aitmatov during his brilliant speeches and reports at the Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, at the Institute of Literature and Art named after M. O. Auezov demonstrated the scale of his personality, the charm of intellect.

1995 was a unique year – the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great Abai, personifying the intellectual potential and spirit of the Kazakh nation, and the 1000th anniversary of the Manas epic, celebrated under the auspices of UNESCO. This key idea of ​​Chingiz Aitmatov’s speech at the conference in the House of Scientists, dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the Kyrgyz epic Manas, united all the reports and messages, became their leitmotif. nine0003

Academician Zeinolla Kabdolov said magnificently about Manas: “Chingiz Aitmatov, by the will of fate, is connected with Manas. “Manas” is an ocean of poetry, and Chingiz is a sea that does not disappear, because it has a strong and long connection with the ocean, feeds on its waters, and exchanges waves. Manas and Chingiz are symbols and synonyms of the Kyrgyz people.”

In the new historical conditions, the self-affirmation of the Kyrgyz and Kazakh peoples goes through historical memory, through such quantities as Abai and Manas. nine0027
“I am happy,” said Chingiz Aitmatov, addressing the audience, “that we will know ourselves together with the Kazakh people. And it is no coincidence that for the first time the discovery of “Manas” was made by the sons of the Kazakh people: with Chokan Valikhanov, the written history of the epic “Manas” begins, which is a unique encyclopedia containing all the experience and historical path of the Kyrgyz people.”

The depth of thinking and intellect of Mukhtar Auezov are amazing. The Dzungars banned Manas. Mukhtar Auezov saved the national epic from the Soviet “Dzhungars”. He turned the course of events. nine0003

“Manas” is not only a true story, history, but also a great art, rising to the level of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The first tragedy, according to Chingiz Aitmatov, is an attempt to turn the main character into a mankurt. It happened in childhood. Manas is anonymously given as a shepherd, thereby saving him. Strength of mind, will manifest itself already at an early age: Manas organizes the first squads from his peers. The great tragedy is the murder of Manas. “Manas” is a sacred, holy thing.

nine0002 “For Chingiz Aitmatov, memory is the people’s self-preservation instinct, a guarantee of their survival. It opposes oblivion as a harbinger of the collapse of intergenerational continuity. In the novel “And the day lasts longer than a century…”, the genetic memory of the Aral Kazakh Yedigei and the philosophy of oblivion, embodied in the worldview of Sabitzhan, personified the ideological and value conflict between protective traditionalism and “groundlessness”, which does not bother to look back at the precepts of ancestors. The funeral of the father for Sabitzhan is a formal obligation, but for Edigey, who is concerned about maintaining the order of words in prayer, it is a moral law that prescribes to bury Kazangap precisely on Ana-Beyit, ”Kazbek, Doctor of Philology, Professor of IMLI, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Dagestan, Kazbek is convinced Sultanov. nine0003

The legend of Naiman-Ana was recorded twice: the teacher Abutalip and the archaeologist Yelizarov. Kazangap told it in both cases, it is he, according to the author, who is the keeper of the folk wisdom of the forgotten book of the steppe history of the Sarozeks. The image of a slave is the central image of the legend about the mankurt. The prototype of the legend about the mankurt is found among the Kazakh people. “… There is no folk legend about mankurt, passed from mouth to mouth in the form in which I presented it,” said Chingiz Aitmatov, “… In that distant era, turbulent historical events took place on the border of the Yuan Empire and present-day Central Asia , peoples lived in constant hostility, cruel customs reigned. And one of the inhuman customs of that time was when a young man who was captured was subjected to painful torture, depriving him of his memory, forcibly forcing him to forget his name, who his father, mother, who his people are, where his land is. And a person, deprived of national and historical affiliation, of everything that characterizes him as a person, turned into an uncomplaining slave, into an obedient robot … I had to ignite this small spark of the past, make it a bright, burning fire, that is, in other words, raise tradition to a higher level, so that it tells us something, so that thanks to this retrospection we can look into the present day. nine0003

In addition to the legends about Naiman-Ana, Akmai and mankurt, the text of the novel “And the day lasts longer than a century …” includes the legend “Sarozek execution”, found by the investigator Tansykbaev among the papers of Abutalip and having the subtitle “From the time of Genghis Khan”. The legend of the mankurt is reaching a new level of generalization. Shiri from camel skin grows to the size of the “Hoop”, which they want to protect the Earth. The chain of human memory stretches from Earth into space. The legend of the mankurt also covers the theme of political repression, the purpose of which was to destroy the national memory. Chingiz Aitmatov mentions on the pages of the novel the scientists of the National Academy of Sciences who suffered during the years of repression. One of the heroes of the novel tragically dies – a former school teacher and front-line partisan Abutalip Kuttybaev. According to the writer, Doctor of Philology Aslan Zhaksylykov, Chingiz Aitmatov cleared the story about mankurts and presented it to the world like a diamond, like Shakespeare: !” nine0003

The life-space of the novel “And the day lasts longer than a century …” is organized by two conceptual metaphors: “The white bird Donenbay, never tired of asking his fateful question “Whose are you?”, And the railway, dissecting and pushing the “mother field” to a previously unknown and frightening horizon , symbolizing the presence and advance of another world. The stable image of the railroad allows you to see and approach the signal lights of another life: Daniyar and Jamila, without looking back, “went towards the railway siding”. In the “Mother’s Field”, Tolgonai, with considerable difficulty, reached a nearby station to see her son who had gone to the front, but becomes a frightened contemplator past the flying military trains – one of the best, according to Kazbek Sultanov, in terms of the empathic power of episodes in general in Aitmatov’s work. Or the prologue and epilogue of The First Teacher: “a dark line of the railway going beyond the horizon” and “the train carried me along the plains of the Kazakh steppe to a new life.” nine0003

The artistic works of Chingiz Aitmatov “And the day lasts longer than a century…” and Abish Kekilbaev “The Ballad of Forgotten Years” are united by the motif of historical memory. The novel by Chingiz Aitmatov is based on the memoirs of Yedigey on the way to the family cemetery of Ana-Beyit. The novel was created at a time when Soviet literature was searching for new forms and ways of generalizing reality, genre forms, artistic means that could include the present day in a planetary context.

nine0002 The motive of forgetfulness, as well as the motive of death, is characteristic of the works of art by Chingiz Aitmatov and Abish Kekilbaev. The motif of death in Abish Kekilbaev’s story appears in the middle of the execution scene, when the young men still did not suspect what lay ahead of them. Under the scorching rays of the sun, helplessly naked heads “seemed already dead.” And the captives themselves, hungry and exhausted, “were ready to fall dead to the ground.” On the contrary, a crowd of Turkmens is watching what is happening with “greedy eyes”, closely surrounding them with greedy curiosity; buzzes softly, wildly. The metaphor reinforces the feeling of inevitable execution: “It seemed that even the clay grave of Kyokbore itself – a small mound lost among the sagebrush bushes – shrunk into a clay lump of horror.” nine0003

Abish Kekilbaev’s narrator possesses vast information, he can foresee what awaits the captives in the future: “But they did not know, they still did not know what they were going to do with them, although they were already shaved baldly”, “Barely daring to raise their eyes, young they watched in horror as they approached – oh, still not understanding what they would do with them . .. ”or tell about what happened. The narrative about the preparation of the execution is replaced by pictures of the past. Fairy tale motifs (“far away lands”, “boundless space”) also “work” to push apart the spatial and temporal framework when it tells about past clashes between neighboring tribes, about a short truce of Turkmens and Adai people at the tomb of St. Karaman. The bitter, mournful intonation of the narrator (“And soon, I tell with sorrow, all the same things began”) is replaced by an excited one in a lyrical digression about a reasonable and evil word, about the word of a wise man and a fool. “A reasonable word can extinguish enmity, an evil word, on the contrary, can fan its insane flame. But if a spear pierces a human quarrel, then only the greatest word of a sage can dissolve an evil confrontation. And only a wise man can convince the human heart to bow to the world, and an evil fool is only capable of brandishing a stick and an ax and calling for murder. Pictures of past steppe life, legends and legends (about mankurts, about Saint Temirbab), included in the text of Abish Kekilbaev’s “Ballads of Forgotten Years”, warn against senseless cruelty and ruthlessness of the steppe rulers. nine0003

Kazbek Sultanov considers the works of Chingiz Aitmatov “an answer to Kemel’s question from the story “Camel’s Eye” in terms of artistic potential: “Oh Anarchay, oh great steppe! What are you talking about, what are you thinking about? What do you hide in yourself from eternity and what awaits you ahead?

The concepts of Motherland, memory, oblivion in the prose of Mukhtar Auezov, Chingiz Aitmatov, Abdizhamil Nurpeisov are extremely important, because the writers with their creativity had a huge impact on the development of culture, which Chingiz Aitmatov called the second universe. The poetics of a major genre form – the novel and the epic novel – in the creative heritage of classical writers includes “openness” as a fundamental opportunity that the author and his reader are endowed with. The poetics of works “in motion” creates a new mechanism of aesthetic perception, expanding the national picture of the world of the artist of the word. nine0003

The wartime Kazakh steppe in the stories of Chingiz Aitmatov “Jamil” and Akhmetzhan Ashiri “Nurania” is severe and deserted, “and the cold is even more terrible than hunger. ” During the war, the Kazakh steppe raised everyone to their feet: “Thousands of stirrups rang, thousands of horsemen looked into the steppe, red banners waved on the poles in front, behind, behind the hoof dust, the mournfully majestic cry of wives and mothers hit the ground: “May the steppe help you May the spirit of our hero Manas help you!” – Chingiz Aitmatov writes in the story “Jamila”. The genre and style features of the story allow us to trace the evolution of the artistic skills of Chingiz Aitmatov and Akhmetzhan Ashiri, which is reflected not only in the system of artistic images, but also in the style of the authors, in the poetics of the works. nine0003

Literary translation in Soviet times was seen as a creative and organizational problem. The Kazakh language saw the light of the day “White cloud of Genghis Khan”, “White ship. Tales and stories”, “And the day lasts longer than a century …”, “Jamila”, “Red Apple”, “Piebald dog running along the edge of the sea”, “First teacher”, “Slaf”, “Tale of the mountains and steppes”, “Farewell , Gulsary”, “Early Cranes” by Chingiz Aitmatov and others translated by Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, Sherkhan Murtaza, Abish Kekilbaev, Kalzhan Nurmakanov, Daiyrbek Kazakbaev.