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10/31/2025

🍁🍂🎃 Happy Halloween from Ms Heather’s Class! We hope all the little ghosts and ghouls have a safe and fun holiday this evening! 🍁🍂🎃

10/27/2025

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The Southern Association for Reading Advancement (SARA) is proud to announce that our first Early Learning Center is officially launching in Wi******er, TN — now with full state licensing and approval! 🎉

We’re inviting families to enroll now before prices increase on November 10th.
✅ Ages 2–5 | Full-Day Pre-K | Literacy-First Curriculum
✅ Small Class Sizes & Certified Teachers
✅ Locally operated nonprofit focused on early literacy

📢 Lock in your tuition for life!
Families who enroll before November 10th will keep their current lower tuition rate for the entire duration of their child’s enrollment — guaranteed.

✨ Spots are filling quickly — secure your child’s place today!

Email us as info@saraelc.org to schedule a walkthrough!

📍 Wi******er, TN | 📞 Call (615) 236-6326 | 🌐

Lions, sensory bins, and play-dough letters, oh my! Our youngest readers will spend their week at camp immersed in early phonics and letter-recognition, early comprehension and vocabulary building and other foundational reading skills alongside zoo-themed camp activities. They’ll graduate from cam...

10/17/2025

We had some very special friends come out to our Early Learning Center today to help us celebrate Fun Friday! We learned all about farm animals and made some furry and feathery friends! 🐄🐓🐎🐥🐮

10/14/2025

🌟 Join the Mission — Become a SARA Board Member! 🌟

The Southern Association for Reading Advancement (SARA) is growing — and we’re looking for passionate leaders to join our Board of Directors!

SARA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to strengthening early literacy and educational outcomes for children in Franklin and Coffee Counties. Through our Pre-K, after-school, and tutoring programs, we’re helping children build the reading skills they need to thrive in school and in life.

We’re seeking individuals who care deeply about education, family, and community — including:

📚 Teachers & Educators who understand the classroom challenges children face.
💼 Financial & Legal Experts who can help ensure strong stewardship and compliance.
🧒 Parents & Faith Leaders who want to shape programs rooted in values and compassion.
❤️ Community Advocates & Donors who believe every child deserves access to quality early learning.

Whether you bring professional expertise, lived experience, or simply a heart for service — your voice matters.

🕊️ Together, we can close the literacy gap, strengthen families, and build a brighter future for rural Tennessee.

If you’re ready to make an impact, visit www.saraelc.org or message us directly to learn more about how to get involved!

Lions, sensory bins, and play-dough letters, oh my! Our youngest readers will spend their week at camp immersed in early phonics and letter-recognition, early comprehension and vocabulary building and other foundational reading skills alongside zoo-themed camp activities. They’ll graduate from cam...

10/08/2025

SARA's Early Learning Center is running a special right now where we are offering families HALF OFF their first month of enrollment for their children! We have two spots open and are excited to continue learning with you!

10/03/2025

Happy Friday! We have a new blog post up today from the blog "Read to Me" all about the benefits of writing and your brain health!
Take a read on our website and don't forget to subscribe.
"This week’s blog involves the complexity of the human brain and its functions in learning to write. I took inspiration from a lesson I shared with four of my favorite preschoolers, ages two through four..."

In my last blog, I addressed reading as not a natural process, that it must be systematically taught, practiced daily, and is only mastered with a great deal of time, energy, and patience on everyone’s part. In that same blog, I detailed how the brain accesses different lobes responsible for speci...

09/13/2025

Thank you for coming to make our fun Friday even more fun! 🐶🐕💚

09/11/2025

🖍️✏️🩵🌳Just a few pictures from the past couple of weeks. Our little learners are blossoming at The Early Learning Center! Shoutout to our lead teacher, Heather Dunn, for keeping our littles safe, joyful and curious about learning! They’re getting smarter every day and are LOVING their school!🖍️✏️🩵🌳

08/31/2025

After over a month of work and a lifetime’s worth of sweat equity…our Early Learning Center has a fenced in playground! Now, if only we had some creative little helpers to help us make it cuter….oh wait we do! Stay tuned for our students’ very own personalizations on our latest project! 🌸🪻🌼🌷🫟🎨

08/27/2025

Happy Wednesday! Today's blog is from Kerry Lynn, writing about speaking vs writing and all about your little one's brain.

"Speaking is a natural process. Tiny humans begin copying what they hear in the form of early speech so that by the time they are two years-old, children are repeating what they hear and asking for more information..."

Read the rest on our blog today!

Speaking is a natural process. Tiny humans begin copying what they hear in the form of early speech so that by the time they are two years-old, children are repeating what they hear and asking for more information. Reading is not a natural process. Those same tiny humans do not begin reading indepen...

08/22/2025

Thank you Wi******er Fire Department for coming out to teach us all about fire safety today at our Early Learning Center! The kids so appreciated seeing you guys and learning about what you do! 🚒🚒