I promise everyday your child will learn something.
Some days they will bring it home in their hands.
Some days they will bring it home in their heads.
Some days they will bring it home in their hearts.
- Author Unknown

My feeling about what is important when teaching children is about letting them "do it" verus having something "pretty" to take home. It is all about the process not the final product. I work very hard each day on creating an "I Can Do It" atmosphere for the children who attend my child care.

One of the hardest hurdles when teaching to mixed ages in home child care is trying to make time to reach each child and each age group. I strive to carve time out of our day each day to give each child time to help the achieve a goal or experience they are working towards. Other than lunchtime - this is probably my biggest challenge of the day!

Infants - during the first year of your child's life I will work with him or her and you to help make sure they work towards and acheive each and every milestone they can. I make sure their environment is safe, loving and nurturing. I do work with the infants on sign language, verbal language (expressive and receptive) along with gross and fine motor skills plus so much more!

Toddlers - during the toddler years we focus a lot on modeling appropriate behavior from how to treat our friends to how to express our thoughts and feelings to how to play with others. We start experimenting with play-doh, coloring, putting puzzles together and so much more. Both as an infant and toddler - your child will be invited to join our circle time to listen and join in on our learning time which includes calendar, ABCs, numbers, shapes, colors, story time, and music and movement time. As your toddler is developmentally ready he or she will be invited to work with our preschoolers in their craft/writing time each day.

Preschoolers - I am currently using a curriculum program from KidCrafters which is very adaptable to a range of ages of children and abilities. I try to make sure your preschooler is offered a structured preschool time each day but it isn't our focus all day. Children still need plenty of time to be able to have free choices of what they want to do and to be able to use their imagination to help encourage their creativity. I respect and understand that. I am flexible where if we need to skip our preschool time or shorten it because of lack of interest - we do that.