Sorrento and Children’s Park Learning Centers are family-owned, non-franchised preschools and child care centers.  The owners, Pam and George Wall, have operated Sorrento Child Care in Beaverton for over twenty years and have thrived by maintaining a safe, caring, nurturing, and learning environment for the children.  A qualified, caring and stable staff is the backbone of Sorrento’s success.  Children's Park has come a long way toward duplicating the program and reputation that Sorrento enjoys.  Both centers hire highly qualified and experienced staff members who exhibit caring and professional demeanor and indicate a desire for long term employment.  Having such a staff contributes to the child feeling secure and the program maintaining an uninterrupted continuity.

Goal:
We seek to maintain a diverse and curiosity arousing curriculum that inspires creativity, expands cognitive interests and increases a child's awareness of his/her surroundings.  We also pursue a positive guidance program to teach socially acceptable behavior, getting along with peers, and appropriate ways to deal with the stresses and vexations we all face daily.

Programs:
Hours of operation:
6:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Infants from 3 months 
Schoolers to 12 years
Particular care is taken that each activity is age appropriate, and that projects employ a wide variety of subject matter requiring differing skills and talents. 

Program Description:
At least once a week each class, threes through fives, will have a science project.  For the threes class this may consist of preparing and planting a seed. As the age of the group increases, their projects also increase in complexity.  Music and movement occurs twice weekly and arts and crafts daily.  Additionally, threes through fives have age appropriate scholastic activities.  For the threes this is familiarization with letters and numbers.  The fours class uses published pre-math and pre-reading texts they complete in the course of the academic year.  The fives class is a private kindergarten that has a published reading and math text program.  The kindergarteners are able to read, print, and complete simple math problems by the end of the school year.  The kindergarten class is limited to fifteen children per teacher which offers more one on one attention for each child.  Finally, socialization and dramatic play round out the program.  In addition to the program, children have regular free time, music and movement, outside play, rest time, educational computer access, and toy and block play.   The infant and wobbler program have little structure.  Its a time for babies to learn the basics; use of hands and feet, familiar sounds, recognition of what they see, and a general exploration of their senses. They want caregivers that hold them, talk to them, show them affection, and keep them clean, fed and dry.

Toddlers begin to use what they learn as babies.  Fine motor skills and gross motor skills are refined with block play, coloring, water play, a variety of toys, and tots climbing structure.  A more interactive socialization begins at this age.  Also, basic arts and crafts are offered to those interested.  They are introduced to the colors, days, weather, and numbers, all as a first foray into learning.

The summer and after school program for schoolers offers a wide array of arts, crafts, games, socialization projects, reading and field trips.  The program is designed to be age appropriate, varied and interesting while educational.  Computer use is limited to educational and motivational games.

Guidance Policy:
Our guidance policy is as complex and as varied as the situations that arise.  Disruptions in the child's life such as sickness, and parental separation etc.  are taken into account if they have a bearing on inappropriate behavior.  For more basic, minor infractions offering an acceptable alternative, time out or denial of privileges may be used.   Time outs are limited to no more than the number of minutes that a child is in years.  Aside from extreme or reoccurring misbehavior no action for misbehavior is extended beyond the day of infraction.