PAGE DIRECTORY Home Description of Daycare Qualifications Experience About Us: Curriculum Activities Daily Schedule Monthly Newsletter Food Program Enrollment Info: Registration Tuition Forms Daycare Set-up Fun Photos Email Me!! ABOUT US ABOUT THE PROVIDER My name is Mariah Dorn I’m 29 years old and am a Licensed Childcare Home Provider licensed up to 14 children. The bottom story of my home is dedicated just for the childcare with their own bathroom, nap room, preschool room, separate infant/toddler room. Our Outdoor environment is just as important. We have a Rainbow playground system for climbing, a large wooden playhouse with a play kitchen with a second story in it for ake believing. We have a digging station with pea gravel and tonka trucks. There are art easels hanging on the fence, a weather station, writing center, woodworking area, and dress up station all outdoors. Our indoor environment is structured around a preschool environment with defined areas of interest such as Art, Sand & Water Play, Music & Movement, Dramatic Play, Science, Blocks, Reading & Writing Center, and Outside Play. My home is in the process of becoming a Nationally Accredited Daycare meeting all the standards set up by the NAFCC. You can view the requirements by visiting www.nafcc.org Staff Our current assistant teacher is Christina Leonard she is 25 years old and was a previous nanny. She is CPR & First Aid trained. She loves reading stories and playing with the children. When either of us is sick my wonderful husband is able to fill in …..the boys love to have a guy around. click on picture for larger view Curriculum I offer a preschool program for ages 2 years and up that teaches school readiness skills. We use the High Reach Learning Program which meets the NAEYC guidelines. To learn more about the program you can visit www.highreach.com HighReach Learning curriculum is based on the philosophy that children learn best through hands-on activities that address the needs of the whole child. In addition, the belief that children need a balance of child-initiated and teacher-facilitated activities each day. This approach reflects the beliefs of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, David Ausubel, and Jerome Bruner. This approach is grounded in sound child development theory and appropriate practices. Themes are used to introduce information and learning takes place as a child explores and manipulates real objects and events. Activities Library Program: We visit the Antelope Public Library once a week where we participate in Story time and each child checks out two books to take home and return the following week. www.saclibrary.org Gymnastics Program: Every other week we visit Byers Gymnastics class to work on our skills by using the balance beam, bars, tumble track, trampoline and pit. www.byersgym.com Roseville Aquatic Center: During the summer we visit the pool once a week to play on their water playground with a slide that sits in 12"water. There are pulleys, and buttons to activate the water. We take various field trips throughout the year to the Zoo, Railroad Museum, Science Museum, Movies, Concerts, Fairytale Town, the lake and various Parks to play. We attend Ringling Bros. Circus and Disney on Ice once a year. Daily Schedule Daily Schedule Spring Summer Monthy Newsletters & Calendar ********************************************* ********************************************* ********************************************* Food Program I provide healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Each meal is served with 2 choices of vegetables and fruits, and 1% milk. I do not serve chocolate, candy or sugary treats. Only 100% Juice is served. Infants 0-12months- I provide all cereal, jar food, and 1st table foods for infants. I provide Dr Browns bottles and formula. Each infant is held for bottle feeding. Once infants are started on solids they are fed in highchairs. Infants 12-18 months- Whole milk is served in a sippy cup and infants eat their meals using a highchair. At age 18 months-I transition toddlers into sitting at the table with silverware and a cup. Here is a sample of my weekly menu: Menus Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Breakfast Raisin Bran Ceral, Apple Juice, & Milk Toast, Hashbrowns, & Milk Corn Flakes Cereal, Fruit Cocktail, & Milk Pancakes, Bananas, & Milk Kix Cereal, Applesauce, & Milk AM Snack Biscuits & Milk Cottage Cheese, Peaches, Orange Juice Apples with Peanut Butter & Milk Graham Crackers & Apple juice Yogurt, Graham Crackers & Juice Lunch Chicken Sandwich, Banana, Veggie soup, Bread & Milk Tomato Soup, Peaches, Cottage Cheese, Crackers &Milk Turkey Sandwiches, Cranberry Sauce, Oranges & Milk Chili, Tator Tots, Salad, Cornbread, & Milk Tuna Casserole, Peas, Pineapple, & Milk PM Snack Gingerbread & Milk Cornbread & Milk Baked Apples & Milk Pasta & Orange juice Finger Sandwiches, Pineapple, Mango juice WEBSITE CREATED BY: THE DAYCARE RESOURCE CONNECTION www.daycareresource.com GRAPHICS BY: