Morning Preschool Program
This program has 10 licensed spaces and is open Monday – Friday 8:30 am – 12:00 pm. It is located upstairs in the church hall and is a beautiful, bright, open concept that has been designed to engage the children in play. The center has been divided into different learning centers and interest areas. Our experienced, passionate and dedicated early childhood educators follow our “learn through play” philosophy while following and expanding on the children’s ever-changing interests.
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Full-time Preschool Program
This program has 20 licensed spaces and is open Monday – Friday 7:30 am – 5:00 pm. It is located in the downstairs of the church and is a large, open concept that has been divided into seven key early learning enviroments – dramatic play, large block area, carpet toys area, puzzle/small manipulative area, art area, sensory play areas, reading/circle time area. Little Friends provides the children with high quality learning toys and rotates them often to ensure the children remain interested and engaged. This program has three full time early childhood educators who plan and implement learning activites weekly.
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Infant/Toddler Center
This program is designed to engage and support the development of children under 36 months. We have two centers on the property. The upstairs Toddler center has 12 licensed spaces with 3 educators. The downstairs toddler center has 8 licensed spaces with 2 educators. Our policies ensure the programs always maintains a 1:4 educator/child ratio to ensure the highest quality of care. LIttle Friends practises "primary caregiving" to help create strong bonds and trusting relationships between the children and caregivers.
The physical environment is an open concept space designed to to provide good "sight lines" while creating spaces for children to climb, snuggle, pretend, explore and engage in play. The educators continuously change and rotate quality educational toys that meet the developmental aspects of this age group. Everyday tasks become "teachable moments" and the dedicated early childhood educators are there to lovingly facilitate the needs of this young group.
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