Smarty's

We believe that all children are special and unique. It is our goal to provide children with safe environment that nurtures self-esteem and security. We provide an informal education program to promote learning through hands on play and discovery. We encorage parents sto discuss expectations they have and/or want for their child and us.

 

Our child care program is structured with individual activities, group activities, supervised free time, and supervised outdoor play. Many of these daily activities will focus on early learning skills such as letters, numberes, colors, and shapes, as well as manners, dressing one-self, and helping around the house in age-appropriate activities. 

 

Program:

1. Small muscle: coloring, puzzles, play dough, and a variety of blocks and other activities.

2. Large muscle: crawling, marching, running, jumping, dancing, stretching, exercising.

3.Creative play: (stimulate child's imagination and language skills) play areas that may include store, post offie, dress up, and puppets.

4. Arts and Crafts: projects emphasizing creativity/technique and most importantly "trying" rather than final outcome.

5. Music: daily use of songs, rhymes, poems, piano or recorded music.

6. Science: activitie that encourage investigations, observing, discovering and problem solving. Example: cooking, growing a plant, bug hunts, etc.

7. Math: counting is a part of every day. Other activities involving concepts such as volume, size, shape, and measurements.

8. Language Arts: Story Time will occur daily. Children will be encouraged to participate in group conversations, social conversations, story telling, and role-play.

9. Outdoor Play: We will go outside daily, weather permitting(if it's too cold for the baby, we will remain indoors) On days when we can not get outside, we will have more activities.

10. Writing: we sharpen our writing skills by tracing two pages daily on provided material.