The Charlotte Sharp Children’s Center (CSCC) has been awarded a Four-Star certification through the Texas Workforce Commission’s Texas Rising Star (TRS) program after meeting rigorous high-quality standards.
This achievement is especially meaningful as CSCC joined Texas A&M University in recent years and has undergone significant growth and transformation under the College of Education and Human Development. CSCC is supported by a dedicated team of teachers who demonstrate passion, commitment, and a strong desire to provide the highest quality early childhood education experiences for our children, families, and community. Our team is equally committed to sharing the importance of early childhood education and advancing our vision of a collaborative community shaping lifelong innovative learners.
Over the past eight weeks, children and teachers actively participated in Walk Across Texas, focusing on a variety of movement-based experiences. Activities included parachute play, dancing, obstacle courses, relay races, marching drum lines, bubble play, and stretching.
The program concluded with a fun-filled Color Run, where Texas A&M Track & Field athletes joined the children. Thank you to the athletes for your time and engagement with our children!
Read Across America
A special thank you to our Read Across America volunteers who spent time reading with our children. These experiences are incredibly valuable, as reading with young children:
- Builds language skills and expands vocabulary
- Supports brain development
- Develops early literacy concepts
- Enhances listening, attention, and comprehension
- Boosts social-emotional growth and empathy
- Encourages imagination and creativity
- Lays the foundation for reading, writing, and future academic success
Cultural Celebrations
We celebrated the Lunar New Year and were grateful to welcome the China Hong Dancers, who shared traditional dances with the children. The children were able to participate and engage in the experience, making it meaningful and memorable for all.
Outdoor Engineering & Learning Experiences
Children engaged in an outdoor engineering project where they worked collaboratively to design and build a cart to hold their water bottles. They shared ideas, tested materials, and refined their designs to improve strength and stability. This project fostered teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving skills while supporting early engineering concepts.
Collaborative building experiences like this strengthen communication, cooperation, and both fine and gross motor development.
In addition, children have begun exploring plant growth. Classrooms are planting seeds indoors and will transplant them outside as they grow. Children have also planted flowers and potatoes outdoors, deepening their understanding of nature and life cycles.
Children have also been:
- Exploring and discussing changing weather patterns, building new vocabulary
- Participating in word hunts, identifying, sounding out, and writing words
