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We invite you to come take a tour, meet our teachers, and see why Kids ‘R’ Kids is the best choice for your family. We understand that you want the best for your child, and we do too! With a unique mix of technology-filled classrooms, highly trained educational staff, live stream cameras, security code entry, and exclusive curriculum; what we can offer your child sets us apart from any preschool or daycare in Fort Mill, SC. Our learning academy offers engaging curriculum and premier programs for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, Pre-K, and before/after school care. We are not just a team, but a family dedicated to giving your child the skills and educational foundation for a lifetime of success!

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Four moms share why they decided to send their child to Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy of Fort Mills.

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Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy provides a secure, nurturing, and educational environment for children. Our school is a place for children to bloom into responsible, considerate, and contributing members of society.

Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy wants all children to have the opportunity to grow physically, emotionally, socially, and intellectually by playing, exploring, and learning with others in a fun, safe, and healthy environment.

As a family-owned and operated school, Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy welcomes positive family involvement and encourages a parent-teacher approach where the needs of every child come first!

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Kids ‘R’ Kids Learning Academy is fully accredited and offers the ultimate foundation for your child. We are very proud to provide the most effective educational programs and innovative facilities for children 6 weeks through 12 years of age.

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Our exclusive line of curriculum is designed specifically for every developmental stage of education with theme-based units, specific learning activities and teacher-friendly lesson plans. As a parent, rest assured your child is benefiting and advancing from the most innovative curriculum available.

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<p>Hello! We are Arty Brown and Gillian and Gervonia Robinson, longtime friends and proud Franchise Owners of Primrose School of Fort Mill. Our decision to become Primrose Franchise Owners was a natural fit for both of our families; all of our children were excelling in a Primrose school and we all had the desire to invest in a meaningful business that would afford other families the opportunity to see their children learn and grow. We are excited to bring the high-quality early education and care experience that Primrose offers to families and children in the Fort Mill community. We all discovered Primrose Schools when searching for child care that would help our children develop a well-rounded foundation. Arty enrolled his daughter Layla in a Primrose school first and quickly saw the positive impact the exclusive Balanced Learning&OElig;&not; curriculum was having on her social, cognitive and emotional development. Upon Arty&#39;s recommendation, the Robinsons soon enrolled their children, Gavin and Gianna, in a Primrose school as well. As Primrose parents ourselves, we understand the importance of ensuring your children are in a loving and nurturing environment where they have the support they need to reach their fullest potential. We&#39;ve seen firsthand the effect Primrose has had on our own children&#39;s development and are thrilled to bring the same experience to other families in our community. Our goal is to foster an environment where children from 6-weeks to 6-years-old can grow their Active Minds, Healthy Bodies and Happy Hearts&OElig;&not;. We&#39;re committed to creating a family atmosphere through a true partnership between our parents, teachers and school leadership. We are delighted to bring Primrose to Fort Mill and we can&#39;t wait to welcome its youngest citizens to our Primrose family!</p>

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Arty Brown, Gillian and Gervonia Robinson

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Hello! We are Arty Brown and Gillian and Gervonia Robinson, longtime friends and proud Franchise Owners of Primrose School of Fort Mill. Our decision to become Primrose Franchise Owners was a natural fit for both of our families; all of our children were excelling in a Primrose school and we all had the desire to invest in a meaningful business that would afford other families the opportunity to see their children learn and grow. We are excited to bring the high-quality early education and care experience that Primrose offers to families and children in the Fort Mill community. We all discovered Primrose Schools when searching for child care that would help our children develop a well-rounded foundation. Arty enrolled his daughter Layla in a Primrose school first and quickly saw the positive impact the exclusive Balanced LearningŒ¬ curriculum was having on her social, cognitive and emotional development. Upon Arty’s recommendation, the Robinsons soon enrolled their children, Gavin and Gianna, in a Primrose school as well. As Primrose parents ourselves, we understand the importance of ensuring your children are in a loving and nurturing environment where they have the support they need to reach their fullest potential. We’ve seen firsthand the effect Primrose has had on our own children’s development and are thrilled to bring the same experience to other families in our community. Our goal is to foster an environment where children from 6-weeks to 6-years-old can grow their Active Minds, Healthy Bodies and Happy HeartsŒ¬. We’re committed to creating a family atmosphere through a true partnership between our parents, teachers and school leadership. We are delighted to bring Primrose to Fort Mill and we can’t wait to welcome its youngest citizens to our Primrose family!

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• More than a Daycare

  Our Balanced Learning approach to child care makes us different than an ordinary Fort Mill daycare. Minutes down the road from the Flint Hill Fire Station and Pleasant Knoll Elementary School, we are conveniently located on Gold Hill Road.

• Programs for Any Age

  Infant, Toddler, Early preschool, Preschool, Pre-kindergarten, After school, Summer adventure club

• We bus to the following elementary schools:

  Gold Hill Elementary School, Tega Cay Elementary School, Fort Mill Elementary School, Springfield Elementary School and Pleasant Knoll Elementary School

• Start Your Own Family Food Drive

  It’s November, which means it’s time for our national Caring and Giving Food Drive! Read our blog to find fun ways you can help your child lead their own family food drive at home.

• An Introduction to ASQ®

  To better meet the individual needs of every child, we’re proud to implement Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ®-3 and ASQ®:SE-2) in Primrose schools across the country.

• Employment Opportunities

  ​Primrose Schools is a national, high-quality early education and care provider made up of a family of dedicated leaders who serve children, families and communities in accredited preschools across the country.

• Grounded in research, fueled by fun

  Our new exclusive Harmony & Heart® program integrates our proprietary music and books in a variety of thoughtful ways each day. Through learning about music, while simultaneously being exposed to concepts in math, language, and character development, your child will grow as a musician, a student, and a person.

• Health & Safety First

  Each Primrose school is held to high standards of safety and cleanliness while maintaining a caring and nurturing environment where children can thrive.

• What Are “QI Skills,” and Why Does My Child Need Them?

  There’s no question that parents want their preschoolers to grasp the basics of colors, numbers and letters to foster a lifetime of learning.

• How We Teach Math at Primrose

  It might seem odd to think about your preschooler exploring data analysis and algebra.

• Why Balanced Learning® Works

  It’s a fact: children learn better when they are engaged. That’s why purposeful play and nurturing guidance from teachers are key components of Balanced Learning. See how this time-tested approach with a strong emphasis on life skills and character development can help your child develop and excel.

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About the restoration of the mill in Fort Ross …

In November 2010, the Link of Times Foundation approached us with a proposal to restore the mill for Fort Ross. Having familiarized ourselves with the materials provided by the American side, we made an assumption about the typological affiliation of the mill that existed in Fort Ross. Two drawings of the fort, made in the 19th century, give grounds to assume that the mill belongs to the type of bollards with a woven base.

This type of mill is older than shatrovka, and in the 17th century it was already widespread in Rus’.

The founder of Fort Ross, a native of Totma, Ivan Kuskov, together with his associates, brought simple and proven technologies to the lands of California. It is known that it was built almost simultaneously with the construction of the fort and in 1814 it was already standing. The mill is really quite simple, but at the same time, the unusual beauty and functionality of the design is felt.

The mill consists of two main parts, a row-base coming from the ground and a mill barn based on the row. The central pillar is buried in the ground and pierces the entire structure vertically, being the barn’s axis of rotation.

In June 2011, our restoration center developed a project to recreate the mill on the basis of the mill from the village of Azapolye located in the Malye Korely museum.

The two Mezen villages of Tselegora and Azapolye numbered about 14 mills, and only two of them were transferred to the museum and preserved. The proposed project was approved by the American side and accepted for implementation. One of the conditions of the project was the use of traditional old technologies and materials. It was supposed to manufacture and debug the mechanisms on the territory of our restoration center in the city of Kirillov, and then transport and assemble them at the site proposed by Fort Ross Park. Since the conducted archaeological research did not reveal the present location of the mill, it was proposed to install it at some distance from the fort next to the parking lot.

Having started the implementation, we started by burning the lower underground part of the central pillar, the diameter of which is 50 cm, and setting it in a vertical position without burying it in the ground. The cutting structure is cut from logs of small diameter (20-22 cm) in four parallel logs.

Internal logs adjacent to the central post are drawn to it in order to give the structure greater stability. Starting from the 11th crown, the ridge begins to narrow upwards in order to reduce the friction area of ​​the barn when turning. From above, the row ends with a cut of cross planks forming a flat plane for setting up a barn.

The barn begins to be cut from the same blocks, the base of which is two large parallel beams on which the walls rest. In 1822 Fr. Mariano Pieras described the mill that he saw while visiting Fort Ross as follows: “To the north of the square, at a distance of three musket shots, there is a good mill that produces excellent flour and is entirely made of wood from base to top . .. Almost everything the houses and the mill itself are made of round logs stacked one on top of the other.The roofs are made of very long boards with rectangular lintels to hold them together and prevent water from getting in.” (Glenn J. Farris, Chief State Archaeologist, Department of Parks and Recreation, Division of Cultural Heritage 7/17/2001)

The log house of the barn is cut “into a block” from round logs, which are hewn outside the bowls to facilitate construction. The barn is more complex structurally, where many elements are interconnected and perform several functions at the same time.

On the first floor there is a shaft in the outer part of which the blades are fixed. There are four of them, as in the well-known drawings (sometimes six blades are made). The shaft has two points of support in which it rotates.

Internal support is made on a beam in which a recess is made for a metal plate, and a steel rod is hammered into the end of the shaft.

The shaft is supported externally on a special cantilevered protruding low wall. At the place of support, steel brackets are hammered into the shaft, and a metal plate is fixed on the wall. Sometimes the overlay is replaced with a specially carved stone. The friction points of the shaft, as well as other mechanisms, were lubricated with lard.

To transmit rotation, a wheel made of birch beams is fixed on the shaft. In order to carve rounded beams, butt parts of a tree with a diameter of 50 cm were used. There are 32 teeth on the shaft that transmit rotation to a gear located nearby on a special beam having a variable height for adjustment.

The gear is also made of birch and consists of two round disks with 8 cams-teeth fixed between them, dressed on a vertically mounted metal rod. Gear disks are tightened with clamps. Millstones are located on the floor of the second floor. The lower millstone is stationary, and the upper one is attached with a pin to a vertical rod coming from the gear and rotates. Above the upper millstone is a hopper into which grain is poured. To adjust the supply of grain, a rag sleeve is used, which is attached to the bunker. The grain is fed into the center of the upper millstone and falls between the millstones. A recess was made in the edge of the lower millstone, to which a wooden box for flour adjoins. This box descends to the first floor where flour is poured into a substituted bag.

The spokes of the blades are made from solid spruce logs cut in such a way as to lead into specially made grooves in the shaft and secure with pads with clamps. The blades are assembled from spruce boards, since spruce is lighter than pine, and are wound into forks inserted at an angle with respect to the spokes. The angle of inclination determines the speed of rotation of the mill and is made from 15 to 25 degrees.

We assembled the barn of the mill on the ground separately from the cutting and debugged the rotation of the elements.

In June 2012, the mill was loaded into containers and shipped to California.

As soon as the containers arrived on site, we started assembling. The foundation in the form of a monolithic slab with a hole for the central pillar in the middle was already made. After the installation of the central pillar, the stones were exposed and the cutting crown was assembled. Assembly on site did not take much time, and only the structures of the stairs and the “carrier” had to be cut on the spot. The asymmetric composition of the barn reaches equilibrium only after the complete assembly and installation of the millstones, so props are used at the time of installation.

It should be noted that the park has long dreamed of restoring the mill. As early as 1978, attempts are being made to locate the exact location and various studies. The Fort itself can be called a remake, since all the buildings, with the exception of the Rotchev House, are recreated buildings according to various sources. The chapel was once destroyed by a devastating earthquake at the beginning of the 20th century, and then rebuilt burned down in the 1970s. The restored buildings of the fort were made on the basis of deep research and as a result of the labor of a careful study of the available materials and evidence. The mill occupies a special position, as it was for a long time the first such structure on the entire west coast, and its reconstruction attracts much attention.

…… more about Fort Ross:

http://www.fortrossstatepark.org/

http://www.fortross.org/

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120913/ ARTICLES/120919780?p=1&tc=pg

http://fortrosswindmill.ru/ru/fort-ross-windmill/

http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3246916.html

The mill as a symbol of the American – Russian friendship

On Thursday, October 18, as part of the events to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Fort Ross Historical Park in California, a presentation was made of a recreated windmill built there by the first Russian settlers in 1814. The windmill at Fort Ross, inspired by the post mills of the Russian North, was the first of its kind in California. During the years of the Fort Ross settlement, its windmills were iconic landmarks and a symbol of the progress that Russian settlers brought with them to California.

However, over time, the mills, like other buildings on the territory of Fort Ross, fell into disrepair. And although today Fort Ross is one of the national parks of the State of California and has the status of a National Historic Landmark protected by the state, the reduction in funding for cultural and historical institutions in the United States has not bypassed it.

Fort Ross is of particular interest to Russians and Russian Americans. On June 23, 2010, as part of the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to California, the then state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the head of the Russian Renova group of companies Viktor Vekselberg signed an agreement to preserve this historic monument. As a result, the Renova Fort Ross Foundation was created, which raises funds to maintain and develop the national historical landmark.

The restoration of the windmill, which was presented on Thursday, was also attended by another Vekselberg foundation, Link of Times, whose mission is to return to Russia cultural treasures taken out of the country in the 20th century. However, in this case, the fund helped return a historical monument to America.

Based on the results of research conducted by archaeologists and historians of the California Park Service and experts from the Link of Times Foundation, the type of mill was selected and the location of the new monument was determined on the territory of Fort Ross. An exact copy of the windmill was created in the Vologda region, where the traditions of building such structures have been preserved, passed down by artisans from generation to generation. Modern masters worked on technologies 19th century: using an ax, a planer, a scraper and an adze of that time. The new mill retained the construction of a birch bark roof without the use of nails, as well as two pairs of wings-blades. After the mill was tested in Russia in June of this year, it was transported disassembled to California. The installation of the structure in Fort Ross Park was carried out by the San Francisco-based architectural firm Page & Turnbull.

Thus, the implementation of this project was the result of US-Russian cultural cooperation, said Viktor Vekselberg, speaking at a presentation in Fort Ross. “The installation of the newly reconstructed windmill is an important step towards the revival of Fort Ross Park as a significant symbol of the cultural and historical ties between Russia and the United States,” he said. – Public attention to this event testifies to the increased interest in the history of Russian America and the unique fate of the relationship between our countries. The appearance of such monuments in the United States should contribute to a real deepening of cultural ties and the formation of friendly relations between the two peoples.”

Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky took part in today’s presentation. Mikhail Shvydkoy, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cultural cooperation, who also participated in the event, called the ceremony a “very remarkable” event and a worthy end to the anniversary year of Fort Ross. “This summer, the leaders of the Keshaya tribe (the first nationality that inhabited Fort Ross – M. G.) visited the Vologda region,” he said in an interview with the Voice of America Russian Service. I know that this trip made a huge impression on them. The fact that the year of the 200th anniversary ends in this way has its own symbolism.”

During the past year various conferences were held in Fort Ross, and in August there was a big celebration with the participation of the Pyatnitsky Choir and other groups from Russia. According to Shvydkoy, these events drew attention to “the fact of the Russian presence in the West Bank of the United States.” “At that time, Russians, Aleuts, Indians, Spaniards created a kind of – well, if not heaven on earth, then something similar,” he said. “Fort Ross was a place that avoided wars. There, the cannons fired only to warn the ships that they were approaching the shore and might run into the rocks. Those 40 years that Fort Ross existed as a Russian settlement were very fruitful and largely symbolic.

“Someone might say that today’s event is not too significant – well, just think, the mill was put up,” Shvydkoy summed up. “But, on the other hand, it is a kind of symbol that people of very different civilizational values ​​can live and work together, and this work can be very creative.”

Russia is interested in supporting Fort Ross

A charity gala dinner on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Fort Ross is being held in San Francisco on Thursday evening. According to a press release from the Renova Fort Ross Foundation, the co-chairs of the event are US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. It is held with the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. The Board of Trustees also includes California Senator Diana Feinstein, former US Secretary of Defense William Perry, former US Secretary of State George Shultz, former PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Donald Kendall, as well as prominent Russian and American business and cultural figures.

Today’s events are taking place against the backdrop of a marked chill in US-Russian relations. However, Mikhail Shvydkoi, special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for international cultural cooperation, emphasizes the importance of the “multi-vector nature” of relations between the two countries. “I think that both the Americans and the Russians – I mean the leadership of both countries – are aware of their responsibility to the serious challenges that exist today,” he told a Voice of America correspondent. I think that sobriety and a certain pragmatism in relations will be more important than certain political tendencies. One way or another, Russia and America are two countries that are forced to respect each other, and this compulsion is not only negative, it also has a positive meaning. In general, the current century is the century not only of the assertion of one’s own principles, but also of the search for compromises. I think that compromises in our relations will be beneficial for both countries.”

“The main thing is that after the holidays the trend of joint work that has developed in recent years between American and Russian institutions, such as the Renova-Fort Ross Foundation and other public and state institutions, should be preserved,” concluded Shvydkoy. – I think that the arrival here of both the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation and high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicates that there is a chance to create a historical and cultural center on California soil that will reflect the memory not only of Russians, but also of the time when Russians and local people lived and worked together. So, I hope that this is not only the last page of the anniversary celebrations, but also the beginning of a new life for Fort Ross.