Mission Statement
Mrs. Nicole's In-Home Childcare is to provide a safe, fun, loving, trusting, educational, home away from home, interest-based learning environment for the children and their families. Mrs. Nicole's patience, understanding, love, supportive and resourceful environment helps support all children and their family's needs to help them to thrive here in a childcare setting. All children & their families are different & unique in their own individual way, and they all belong.
Philosophy
Mrs. Nicole's In-Home Childcare is an Interest-based learning program. Where children learn what they are interested in for the day & at their own pace with the help and guidance of Mrs. Nicole.
Interest based learning — Interest-based is learning to play amongst their peers and making choices freely. High quality early childhood teaches children to think creatively so they succeed in a complex and ever-changing world. Purposeful interest-based learning is developmentally appropriate and a significant element of any early childhood program.
Interest-based learning improves the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional well-being of children and young people. Through an interest-based program, children learn about the world and themselves. They also learn important skills they need for school, work and relationships.
Interest-based learning allows your child to learn the skills of negotiation, problem solving, sharing, manners, working within groups & individually. Children practice decision-making skills, learn to follow directions, move at their own pace and discover their own interests during the day through a variety of educational activities in the childcare home with the help and guidance of Mrs. Nicole.
What is an interest-based learning program?
The caregiver is engaging at all times with the children and organizes a variety of different activities throughout the day that sparks the child's interest, and the child has the opportunity to choose freely what they are interested in doing, and it's turned into an expanded learning opportunity for your child.
A wise person once said, "PLAY is often talked about as if it were a form of relief from serious learning. But for children PLAY is serious learning. PLAY is really the work of childhood."
- Mr. Fred Rogers