Welcome To Building Brains Academy!
Building Brains Academy is a language-immersion preparatory preschool that provides an outstanding curriculum with a STEAM focus and a high level of academic excellence.
Lake Nona Area Preschool
Our program offers a rich, interdisciplinary, multilingual experience for children, 6 weeks through Pre-K, in an intercultural environment. Through our multilingual immersion approach, Building Brains Academy offers a full-immersion Spanish, Mandarin, French, and English language program that focuses on the unique way children naturally absorb new languages in their early years.
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Infants
Babies
6 weeks to 12 months
Building Brains Academy has a loving team to care for your little babies. We provide individual care and attention to your child, helping them learn to trust and grow according to each
child's own needs.
Infants
Toddlers
Ones & Twos
12 - 36 months
The Two Year Old Room at Building Brains Academy encourages in children the need for imagination and exploration for the world around them. We help these little ones in every milestone along the way!
ToddlersPreschool
Threes
3 - 4 years
At age three the Building Brains Preschool children begin to learn exciting lessons and engage in hands-on activities. Each child learns to develop physically, emotionally, and socially as they enter new areas of trust!
Preschool
VPK
Fours & Fives
4 - 5 years
The Fours and Fives Pre-K program at Building Brains Academy is designed to set your child up for a successful school career. Every day is fun and exciting as our lessons and activities promote self-confidence!
VPK
Kindergarten
Starting in August 2024
Through our Dual-Language Program (Spanish & English) for kindergarten our students will learn in a social and academic environment that helps them to become fluent multilingual speakers.
Kindergarten
Summer Camp
Full Day
up to 11 years old
Building Brains Academy offers summer camp program for students ages 5 to 11 yrs. old. We provide fun & engaging activities with STEAM Focus for a Summer with lots of fun.
Summer Camp
Schedule a Tour
At Building Brains Academy, we offer developmentally appropriate childcare programs and a specialized preschool curriculum. We are NOT a daycare center. Schedule a tour and see first hand why Building Brains Academy is Lake Nona, Florida's best preschool and child care center. We are conveniently located on the outskirts of St. Cloud in the Lake Nona, Florida area.
MULTILINGUAL
EDUCATION
Your child will be immersed in a multilingual academic environment and have the opportunity to learn Spanish, English, Mandarin, and French in a simple, fun and organic way.
S.T.E.A.M
FOCUS
Through project-based, inquiry-driven activities, children explore and discover the world around them. Students learn while using the target language as their primary form of communication.
SMALL
CLASSES
Working with only a few children in small/personalized groups enables our teachers to provide individualized attention in order to accommodate your child's unique learning style and needs.
HEALTHY
NUTRITION
Healthy nutrition is fundamental for brain and body development. We serve our students homemade meals and snacks FREE from artificial colors, FREE from highly processed ingredients, and organic whenever possible.
FUN
ACTIVITIES
Classrooms that incorporate child-directed experiences offer many opportunities for children to uncover their ideas, to generate questions, and to construct their own knowledge.
INTERNATIONAL
CURRICULUM
Edu1st VESS is a bilingual international curriculum that promotes critical thinking in children. It follows the Making Thinking Visible Approach of teaching from Project Zero at Harvard University.
Edu1st VESS
Edu1st VESS
This curriculum combines all the fundamentals that children need during the most crucial neurological stage of their lives in order to endow each child with the necessary habits of mind and thinking and life skills to lead a good and productive live.
Infancy and early childhood is the ideal time to immerse your child in a foreign language. Between birth and five years old is when the human brain is hardwired to learn language and most receptive to acquiring the phonemes, grammar, and vocabulary of multiple languages. After age five, this critical window closes and it becomes much harder to learn a new language.
What Parents Say
As new parents, it was scary to think someone else would be taking care of our baby girl once we went back to work.
That being said, I am SO THANKFUL for the women at Building Brains! In the infant class, Ms Jenny, Ms, Maritza, and Ms Lynette treat our daughter as if she is one of their own!
In terms of cleanliness, I couldn't ask for more. The infant class has an 8 child capacity and is SPOTLESS. All babies are temperature checked when they arrive, and teachers are washing their hands constantly throughout the day. The toys all look brand new and everything is fully sterilized each night. My proof? Our daughter has yet to come home with any sort of sniffles or bug.
In terms of learning- it's a full language immersion experience. This was key for us as we are monolingual and understand the significant advantage multilingualism can have for children and adults. More so, I am constantly receiving photos of her participating in physical, social, and cognitive developmental activities from tummy time to exercising, to fine-tune motor skills. - Lauren H.
We have had such a great experience with BBA.
After one bad experience at a nearby school, my husband and I have been overjoyed since switching to BBA. The teachers and the curriculum have helped my youngest daughter grow her verbal skills immensely. I'm fairly sure Ms Mariela and Ms Nayvi know magic in order to get a room full of 18 month olds to sit down to eat at a table without having chaos at the end of the meal.
My oldest daughter came home the first day with nothing but positive comments. Knowing my shy, yet picky daughter, that is success by itself! Her drawing skills continue to improve, each day getting better.
The administration is always ready to help and are flexible when situations change last minute. Ms Paola and Ms Jeanice make their constant juggling seem easy. Of course, all is done with a smile. Very thankful for the ladies at BBA! - Rebecca B.
Friendly, kind and patient teachers! A comprehensive curriculum and healthy foods for the kids. These things make Building Brains Academy an amazing place for kids!
After doing multiple school tours, I realized the Building Brains was the best choice for my children. I love the language immersion, the healthy menu that they provide, the curriculum and all of the extra activities offered (gardening, soccer). They have excellent security for the kids and use the Brightwheel app to keep you informed of your child's day. I felt at ease here and the love and care that the teachers have for the kids is obvious.
My son loved his teacher immediately, my daughter has gotten really attached to one of her teachers. Highly recommend. - Gianna N.
My husband and I are in love with this place. Our little one is so happy at Building Brains Academy. Education is top level. They are very strong teaching various languages. My girl speaks Spanish and English. It’s important to us that she speaks both languages well. Now, we didn’t expect that our little one would feel so excited about learning French and Mandarin. I am telling you this place is amazing. Teachers are awesome and place is beautiful! - Cynthia Ramirez
After doing multiple tours in other schools I’m so happy I found Building Brains. From the minute I walked in the school I saw my 2 yr old attending. The owner and the director are great. Amazing communication skills and I love how they use an app to update you throughout the day of your little ones activities. My sons teacher is sweet and very helpful. I’m able to send her messages which she replies promptly. To add, I love how they offer an organic healthy menu for my child and that alleviates from having to send him with lunch and snacks. Thank you to the staff and I highly recommend this school. - SanDee Chavez