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| - My daughter has been going to their daycare/preschool since she was 2 (about a year and a half now), and I am amazed with her development both socially and creatively. La Petite structures each classroom around a child's specific age group, learning abilities, and development. Weekly to bi-weekly changing themes range from the family unit to transportation. Parents receive a newsletter with each week's theme, which gives them a clear understanding of what their children are learning.
For example, this week's theme is "How to Get from Here to There". Learning objectives that are assessed are language and communication development, math and logical thinking, scientific thinking and problem solving and creativity and the arts. Children are introduced to books and songs and stories relating to the theme, and the newsletter provides a list of books or activities that parents can engage in with their child at home.
Furthermore, parents get a very clear understanding of where their child is, or should be, in their development within the language, math, and social categories. For instance, at this point, 'child participates in read aloud situations, knows that letters are different than numbers, orders more than two objects by size, works with class to gather data, works to build knowledge about different jobs and roles, follows basic safety and health rules, draws recognizable pictures...'.
Daily the kids in my daughter's 3 year old classroom are working on creative art projects which involve a variety of different mediums. They have play time on the playground at least twice a day, a scheduled nap time with their own dedicated cots and blankets, many snack times and healthy meals through the day, free play, story time, and many other activities that keep them engaged and learning throughout the day.
The facilities are very clean, the staff very attentive and sensitive to children's needs, and parents receive a little progress note at the end of each day to see what their child did, how they ate, slept, etc.
I feel so comfortable leaving my daughter there, and highly recommend La Petite. For full time care, 6a-6p, Monday-Friday, the price is extremely reasonable at about $140 for the week. Parents do have the option of bringing their child for only one or two days.
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