Welcome to Jr's Daycare!
We offer Subsidy.
Kindergarten age & under qualify for the affordability grant.
Today’s children face many personal and social obstacles. Children need love and guidance through a structured and supportive environment. Each child has unique ways of dealing with pressures by having individual qualities, values, and morals. These qualities in children need to be recognized and respected to encourage development. By empowering our children today, they will have a better sense of self-worth and respond in a positive manner to everyday trials and a changing world. Safe environments encourage positive relationships with peers, and other adults in the child’s life, building strong foundations for confidence and social emotional development.
Children learn the building blocks of who they are through developmentally appropriate play. By providing a wide variety of equipment, materials and activities (both structured and unstructured) the children initiate their own learning experience. With the guidance and support from qualified caring staff, positive learning becomes a natural experience. Physical activity is a major developmental factor in young children, it is the basis for living a healthy long life, with proper guidance as children’s habits will form and remain used as adults. Proper nutrition is just as important for young growing children, while children can be picky eaters it is important to offer them a variety of dietary appropriate foods, while taking into consideration family preference, spiritual restrictions, and allergies.
Children are just learning to regulate and understand their emotions. By providing caring, nurturing, responsive and educated staff, we as co-learners help them understand what their body is feeling and encourage them to find the words to describe it. Starting at infancy children mirror and learn to respond to emotional situations by watching how we are responding. Forming positive emotional attachments with adults helps in the development of their brain and the neurological pathways that are forming. Emotional development is a key factor in children becoming healthy, stable, and successful adults.
Spirituality comes in many forms today, giving meaning, purpose, structure, and value to our ever-changing lives. It is presented religiously, traditionally, and through family structures. While we may not agree with all values, it is our duty as child educators and co-learners to be respectful and mindful of family practices. We bring this practice into our centers by doing research, having meaningful and responsive conversations with families, and by asking questions when we do not understand. We celebrate the many cultures in our communities and invite them into our programs to teach and educate.
By including families, and educators in the program development we ensure to meet all four of the needs, mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical development. Families and educators are encouraged to join the program and share their ideas, traditions, values, and spirituality through surveys, questionnaires, and meetings. Sharing foods, games, clothing, stories and traditions are some ways we incorporate staff and families into our programs, helping to create healthy, sustainable, safe and educational programs for our community.
