Programs
Buttercups Curriculum
by Funshine Express®
Buttercups is adaptable for children ages 6 months - 36 months, Buttercups® offers interactive fun and the activity kits develop gross and fine motor skills, as well as provide music, language, art, cognitive, social, and sensory experiences. This curriculum will be utilized everyday as a guide to learning and play throughout the day.
Fire Flies®
by Funshine Express®
Adaptable for children ages 3-5, Fireflies® is a high-quality, professionally-designed early learning program that creates enthusiasm for learning and builds school readiness skills. The monthly activity kits provide educators and parents with strategies for children with various developmental needs, experiences, and diverse culture. Activities and assessment materials are aligned with early learning standards. This curriculum will be utilized everyday as a guide to learning and play throughout the day.
Spanish
by Little Einstein's Staff
Our staff is bilingual in Spanish and will also teach your child in Spanish on a daily basis. This will include story time, circle time 2 times a week and daily interaction with Spanish speakers.
Infants
Our program provides infants with a safe environment rich with opportunities to actively explore and enjoy; to see, hear, feel, touch and move. Our specially trained infant staff establishes a nurturing, creative world for your children filled with responsive interactions and language. We use a primary care giving model. Each child and their family are allocated a primary caregiver who works towards establishing a warm, secure relationship with the child and a partnership with the parents. The primary caregiver ensures each child's needs and routines are met, taking a key role in feeding, sleeping, changing, noticing, wondering and playing with each child. When the babies are awake and receptive, they will be carried, talked to and played with. Parents' preference about feeding and sleeping schedules and the child's own patterns govern the course of the day. Our caregiver/child ratio of 1:2 is designed to allow individualized care. A daily communication log is given to parents at the end of the each day, which includes information about eating, sleeping and diapering and any anecdotal information about your child's day.
Toddlers/Twos/Threes
Our program is designed to accommodate active, curious toddlers.
The hands on classroom environment allows each child to manipulate, explore and discover new materials.
The classrooms are set up into interest centers which include:
- Fine motor play and manipulative's - including reaction toys, puzzles, and stacking objects, shape sorters
- Imagination and quiet play -including kitchen sets, play food, dolls, dress up
- Literacy-library with picture books, textured board books, touch and feel books
- Creative arts & exploration tactile play materials, art materials, musical instruments
Our staff ratio allows each child's unique emotional, social, physical and intellectual development to be met. A daily communication log is given to parents at the end of each day which includes information about eating, sleeping and diapering and any anecdotal information about your child's day.
Specialty classes: ASL & Music
Toddlers & Preschool Corner
"Group Arts & Craft projects engender a sense of unity and belonging in our day care community."
Lead Teacher:Aida Urena
Assistant: Yudelis Laucer-Fox
Threes/Fours
Fireflies® Curriculum
by Funshine Express®
Fireflies® is adaptable for children ages 3-5:Fireflies® is a high-quality, professionally-designed early learning program that creates enthusiasm for learning and builds school readiness skills. The monthly
activity kits provide educators and parents with strategies for children with various developmental needs, experiences, and diverse culture. Activities and assessment materials are aligned with early learning standards.
Our rich classroom environment is designed for each child to transition from the sensory-motor world of toddlers to an increasingly social world.
Caregivers use their talent and expertise to design, adapt and invent learning centers that best serve the children in the room. Activities are open ended and emphasize process over product. The children will have the opportunity to move purposely, assert their independence and learn to communicate with their peers.
The children will be taken on daily outings to the local parks and playgrounds for gross motor activities and sensory activities (weather permitting).
In addition to the curriculums, the learning centers include:
- Dramatic play - Kitchen area, dress up clothes, dolls, puppets
- Table toys/Manipulative's - pegs, table blocks, puzzles
- Library - board books, story time
- Blocks - Cars, people, animals
- Art - crayons, washable markers, easel painting, stamps, collage material, play dough
Group activities allow children to practice social skills such as cooperation, sharing and taking turns.
After School Program
Ages 4.5 to 12 years
Homework help
Outdoor Play
Puzzles & games
Arts & Crafts
Dinner & Snacks
Specialty classes: ASL, Spanish, Scribble Art Workshop & Music