Lollys Day Care

Lolly`s Day Care is a English Medium Day Care prepared to give your child the best pre-school education ever offered in Botswana. 1.

We take children from 0 to 5 years. DEVELOPMENTAL NEEDS

As the developmental needs for the age groups of children vary, our variety of programmes will cater for all the age groups. Focus on Fine Motoring skills, Gross motoring skills, Listening skills, Writing skills, Science and biology, Arts and Crafts and our Music programme will enable all children of all age groups and levels to be included

and incorporated in our daily activities. For our younger children, potty training, self feeding and individual play as well as group play (sharing) will be focussed on attentively and we will ensure that they are also forming a vital part and are included in our other children’s activities. Fine motor skills will be developed with building blocks and other toys available to us and this will also assist in the hand-eye coordination of each child. Fine motor skills will be developed on a daily basis. Arts and crafts will also benefit the fine motoring skills as we will be teaching the babies to hold and use crayons and finger painting, sponge painting and other utensils will be used in accordance of their age and also the speed of their development. Gross Motor skills will be developed by the utilizing of our music and dance programme and this will also include their listening skills as we will be utilizing the nursery rhymes that include instructions and motions involved, which will again also assist with not only their gross motor skills but also with balance, hand and eye coordination and speech. Older children will be evaluated and on their various strengths and weaknesses and individual attention will be given to each child. We will be including physical training (play ball, monkey nastics, athletics, kindermusic, swimming lessons etc. as part of our Gross motor skills. Fine motoring skills for our older kids will include tearing, cutting, lacing, building of puzzles, threading etc.

2. LEARNING PRINCIPLES

Our motto is “no little person will be belittled. We strive to teach each child at his / her own pace and will encourage growth on individual levels. Each child has his / her own personality and we will be building on their strengths and with patience and understanding evaluate and concentrate on each weakness. Speech and listening will be part of our daily routines as well as the mathematical and scientific development of each child. We will be counting, recognising of shapes, colours and our alphabet in accordance with the various age groups. We will be starting with a vegetable garden and an animal farm in which each child will play a crucial part as to the development of these structures. This will in turn teach them about science and biology and also the care for our environment. Our goal is to equip each child with the tools to ensure that they will be ready for “Big School!”

3. BASIC LIFE SKILLS

Sharing is caring, thus this will form part of our teaching and we will be training all our children about caring, sharing and understanding. Respect for others, even if we do not agree will be highlighted in all our activities as we will ensure that all children participate in all our activities and themes throughout each week. Personal hygiene are of the utmost importance to us and we will teach our children all the rules regarding this subject, including to wash our hands regularly, private space and hygiene in general. This will also form part of our themes and we plan to include visits from doctors and nurses, firemen and policemen.