Bright Beginnings Childcare

Infant Classroom 🍼

Our infant program is designed to promote the growth, development, safety, security and belonging of your child. We provide infants with a supportive, nurturing, and caring environment to meet the needs of each infant’s unique abilities, desires, emotions, and needs. We provide our infants with a a cozy and calm environment to promote their sensory development and secure attachments as children work on progressing their individual development. We provide all infants in our care with materials to explore their abilities and encourage the development of their visual, language, gross motor, and fine motor skills. Our program consists of nurturing each child’s needs and daily art activities and music.

Tot Classroom ✏️

Our Tot program is enriched with materials to help your child grow and develop. Our program consists of interactive play based learning, language development, music and movement, process art, stories, group activities and motor activities to encourage your child’s early learning. We provide unlimited opportunities for your child to explore their abilities and environment through participation in sensory experiences, circle time, sing-alongs, arts and crafts, music and movement and whole group read-alouds. Each week our Tots explore different learning themes including: Back to School, All About Me, Colors, Autumn Animals, Fire Safety, Transportation, Giving Thanks, Winter, Snow Animals, Hearts, Stories, Music, Farm, Zoo, Rain, Jungle, Flowers, Space and Ocean.

Young Toddlers & Toddlers 🍏

Our Toddler program provides children with interactive play based learning, language development, story time, guided free play, process art, sing-alongs, group activities and motor skills activities to encourage early learning and development. Our classrooms are equipped with age-appropriate materials to help your child explore their environment and learn through play. Our dedicated teachers provide children with hands on learning experiences to foster social, emotional, physical and cognitive development. Our program focuses on working with children on their shapes, emotions, letters and numbers. Our toddler teachers take an active role in the daily learning of your child as they circulate and assist in guiding children in play and helping them navigate peer interactions and promote conflict-solving strategies. Each week our Toddlers explore different learning themes including: Crayons, Trees, Apples, Signs of Fall, Fire Prevention, Pumpkins & Scarecrows, Autumn Fun, Gingerbread Man, Let is Snow, Community Helpers, Shamrocks, Spring Ahead, Planet Earth, Insects and Ocean

Preschool Program 🖍️

For children approximately ages 3-5, our preschool program is designed with a focus on preparing children to enter kindergarten. Our program is built off of young children’s innate natural curiosity of the world around them and their creativity.

Our preschool program is enriched with developmentally-appropriate materials and learning experiences that build off of children’s own individual strengths. Our focus in our classroom is play-based and hands on learning where we offer children choices to allow them to explore their abilities and their environment. We work individually with each child to help them develop their independence skills, communication skills, problem-solving skills, and self-help skills to prepare them for life-long learning.

Our daily preschool program is broken up into learning segments consisting of:
Early morning free play
Morning Snack Time
Circle Time (Story; Sing Along; Review of Classroom Rules; and Letters, Numbers, Shapes & Color Identification)
Whole Group Process Art or Whole Group Skill Building
Outdoor Morning Play
Lunch
Rest
Afternoon Snack Time
Thematic Center Based Learning Activities
Outdoor Gross Motor Play
Afternoon Free Play

Our preschool curriculum and lessons are developed each month by a qualified program staff to meet the learning needs of the children in the classroom. Our dedicated early childhood educators work with children on areas including:
Language & Literacy
Math and Number Concepts
Science
Social Studies and the World Around Us
Art
Music and Movement
Health and Nutrition
Social and Emotional Development
Gross Motor Development and Fine Motor Development

Each week preschoolers explore new learning themes and engage in activities centered around these themes. Some of our themes include: Healthy Habits, Apples, Autumn, Artic Animals, Hot Cocoa, STEM Fairy Tales, Construction, Farm, Insects, Ice Cream and Ocean