Programs

Our Child Care Lesson Plans

Teacher With Child

Our child-oriented educational program provides continuity, shape, and direction to individual interest and explorations. Individuality is respected and encouraged as the development of the “whole” child is promoted.

‘For Kids Only’ is concerned with growth in the emotional, physical, cognitive, social, and lingual areas of development as well as creative and cultural. Varied classroom interest centers, learning games, class projects, and the staff’s creative approach to spontaneous inquiries by the children will provide many days of discovery and learning in an exciting and fun way.

Infants

6 weeks – 16 months

Physical Development

  • Adequate rest – sleep as necessary for each child
  • Movement – encouraging crawling and walking using walkers, etc.
  • Balance – supportive sitting, encouraging rolling over, swings, chairs, infant seats

Intellectual Development

  • Language – talking to child during all interactions
  • Cognitive – showing cause and effect
  • Creativity – stimulating the environment through sounds, music, textures, vinyl books

Emotional Development

  • Security – responding to expressed needs
  • Love – touching, caressing, holding during feeding, changing, and play

Social Development

  • Behavior skills – separating children during disagreements over activity. They cannot yet mediate themselves.

Toddlers

16 months – 33 months

Physical Development

  • Large muscle – encouraging movement, climbing, sliding, ball playing, riding toys, swinging
  • Balance – providing obstacles, creative movements, and all of the above mentioned objects
  • Small muscle – hand/eye coordination activities, cutting, pasting, large block playing, bead stringing, etc.

Intellectual Development

  • Language – encouraging speech, conversations, show and tell, story telling, reading
  • Cognitive – exploration, nature studies, matching through story time, shapes and colors, books, puzzles
  • Creative – dramatic play, art activities, music activities

Emotional/Social Development

  • Self-esteem – positive reinforcement and encouraging self-exploration, discussion of feelings, story time, dramatic play
  • Independence – providing choices, encouraging self-motivation, self-help skills

Preschoolers

33 months – Kinder

Physical Development

  • Large muscle – climbing, riding, lifting, kicking, throwing balls, jumping rope, etc.
  • Balance – games through the above methods and the balance beam
  • Small muscle – manipulation of toys, craft projects, puppets

Intellectual Development

  • Language – encouraging speech, conversations, reading books, story telling
  • Cognitive – problem solving, use of the alphabet, counting, colors, weights and measures, activities which use letters and numbers, calendar, time, nature and science activities, water and sand play, art and block play
  • Creativity – exploration of art mediums, art activities, music, dance

Emotional Development

  • Self-esteem – positive feedback and supportive environment, dramatic play, self expression activities, body awareness, and staff helpers
  • Independence – participation in class planning, making choices, and self help

Social Development                       

  • Behavioral – discussion of rules, limits, and expectations through appropriate behavior in all aspects of the daily activities
  • Interaction skills – small and large group activities, understanding rights and responsibilities of others, diplomatic mediation, music, dance

School Age

K+ Grade and Up

Physical Development

  • Large muscle – organized sports, movement games
  • Small muscle – creative moments, carpentry projects, craft activities

Intellectual Development

  • Language – conversations, reading, story telling
  • Cognitive – science projects, nature activities, field trips, math, cooking, board games, blocks
  • Creativity – expression of ideas, art, story telling

Emotional Development

  • Self-esteem – verbal encouragement and reinforcement, acknowledgement of moods and feelings, appropriate books, self-expression
  • Independence – individualized and self-motivated activities through encouragement

Social Development

  • Behavior skills – discussion of rules, limits, and expectations
  • Interactive skills – group cooperation on field trips, helping staff and other children, games, dance, and songs

Find out how ‘FOR KIDS ONLY’ can ENHANCE your child's growing years.

A new child care is a very exciting time, and we’d be happy to share this time with you and your family. Providing your child’s infant, toddler and preschool education is both a privilege and a responsibility, and continues through the school-age years. It is the goal of ‘FOR KIDS ONLY’ to provide the very best quality care and education possible for your child.

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