Our center opens at 6:30am and closes at 6:00pm, and there
are families there waiting to be let in at 6:30 am and there are kids waiting
to be picked up at 6:00 pm.
Our tuition based program is from 9am to 12pm and anything before and after that is considered daycare. We have a 2 day program, a 3 day program, and a 5 day program for preschoolers. We are a Title 22 Licensed facility, we actually have two different licenses, one for our preschool program and one for elementary. We have a toddler room (TLC) which is for children ages 18 months to 2 and a half years, and the child to teacher ratio is 1:6. When they reach 2 and a half years or a little beyond that point they move up to our preschool program. The TLC room is a daily flat rate fee and parents can leave their children all day or just 3 hours and it is the same price either way.
The Enrichment Center (EC) s a mixed age group, the children in here can be between the age of 2 and a half years up to 5 years old. Many parents utilize this room when they need to come on a call in basis or if their children need to come five days a week then they sign them up for our 2 or 3 day program and on the opposite days their children attend the EC. Our ration for the preschool aged children is 1:12.
We also have a Kindergarten room, with a credentialed teacher and an aide, and on average we have around 22 students. This is a full day Kindergarten class so it goes from 9 to 3 and any kids that need daycare after that come up and join the elementary kids. We have around 240 families enrolled in these programs and on any given day we have up to 158 kids throughout the day and that does not include our Elementary daycare program. Our campus has an “upstairs” and a “downstairs” which is really two separate sections of classrooms because we are divided by the parking lot. Rooms 0, 00, EC, 1, 2, TLC, 3, and 4 are considered “upstairs” and these are our younger preschoolers. Rooms 5 (mine), 6, 7, 8(Kindergarten). 9, and 10 are “downstairs” and these are the Pre-K rooms.
We are licensed for 112 elementary aged children, this includes TK up to 5th grade. We have 6 vans that take kids to and from school throughout the day, there are always vans going back and forth from our campus to three of the local schools because there are different start times and pick up times especially for the TK and Kindergartners. Parents pay a van fee every month and they must call in by 1:00pm to add or cancel van pick up. Our Assistant Director is in charge of keeping the schedules and lists for this area. Our vans seat 7 children and only 6 if there aren’t any front seaters (kids whose parents signed a waiver to allow them to sit in the front seat). The kids who ride the vans have two milestones they can’t wait to reach: 8 years old because then they don’t have to ride in a booster seat anymore and 4th or 5th grade because that’s when most parents allow them to sit up front in our vans.
We have two main elementary rooms that we use and our elementary kids utilize the three upper playgrounds in the afternoon. On a high day we have between 80 and 90 kids and on a low day we have 50 to 60.
We do not have a lunch program, all of the kids from TLC to Elementary bring their own lunch and morning snack. We provide afternoon snacks at 2:00 and 5:00 for Elementary and 3:00 and 5:00 for Preschool. We also have a summer program for the elementary and preschoolers. We are a large campus and in order to work here you have to be able to multi-task and go where you are needed.
There are usually 30 of us on campus everyday: 15 teachers, 6 floaters,1
Director, 1 Assistant Director, 1 office manager, 2 Human Resource gals, 2 Maintenance
guys (these guys fix and build anything and everything and they are rock starts
in the kids’ eyes), 1 Church secretary, and 1 Pastor (pretty much a celebrity on
campus). Many people have come and gone because they weren’t able to handle the
amount of kids and staff. You have a work schedule and times to come in and get
off but mostly you need to be flexible because if there are tons of kids and
they aren’t going home as quickly as they usually do and you are short two
staff members then you may be staying a little later. If someone calls off, you
may be called to see if you can come in a little earlier. I spend my mornings
in preschool, my afternoons in elementary and my evenings in the office, and a bunch
of other gals have different hats they wear as well. Phew!! I know that was long
and that’s barely scratching the surface, I didn’t even talk about how the
lunch hour works, nap-time, getting and giving breaks, how the van lists are
kept, keeping lists of all the kids and marking times, checking in and out on
our Pro Care system…sheesh just writing this makes me remember how much it
takes to run this place and I am in awe of our facility and staff!
Our tuition based program is from 9am to 12pm and anything before and after that is considered daycare. We have a 2 day program, a 3 day program, and a 5 day program for preschoolers. We are a Title 22 Licensed facility, we actually have two different licenses, one for our preschool program and one for elementary. We have a toddler room (TLC) which is for children ages 18 months to 2 and a half years, and the child to teacher ratio is 1:6. When they reach 2 and a half years or a little beyond that point they move up to our preschool program. The TLC room is a daily flat rate fee and parents can leave their children all day or just 3 hours and it is the same price either way.
The Enrichment Center (EC) s a mixed age group, the children in here can be between the age of 2 and a half years up to 5 years old. Many parents utilize this room when they need to come on a call in basis or if their children need to come five days a week then they sign them up for our 2 or 3 day program and on the opposite days their children attend the EC. Our ration for the preschool aged children is 1:12.
We also have a Kindergarten room, with a credentialed teacher and an aide, and on average we have around 22 students. This is a full day Kindergarten class so it goes from 9 to 3 and any kids that need daycare after that come up and join the elementary kids. We have around 240 families enrolled in these programs and on any given day we have up to 158 kids throughout the day and that does not include our Elementary daycare program. Our campus has an “upstairs” and a “downstairs” which is really two separate sections of classrooms because we are divided by the parking lot. Rooms 0, 00, EC, 1, 2, TLC, 3, and 4 are considered “upstairs” and these are our younger preschoolers. Rooms 5 (mine), 6, 7, 8(Kindergarten). 9, and 10 are “downstairs” and these are the Pre-K rooms.
We are licensed for 112 elementary aged children, this includes TK up to 5th grade. We have 6 vans that take kids to and from school throughout the day, there are always vans going back and forth from our campus to three of the local schools because there are different start times and pick up times especially for the TK and Kindergartners. Parents pay a van fee every month and they must call in by 1:00pm to add or cancel van pick up. Our Assistant Director is in charge of keeping the schedules and lists for this area. Our vans seat 7 children and only 6 if there aren’t any front seaters (kids whose parents signed a waiver to allow them to sit in the front seat). The kids who ride the vans have two milestones they can’t wait to reach: 8 years old because then they don’t have to ride in a booster seat anymore and 4th or 5th grade because that’s when most parents allow them to sit up front in our vans.
We have two main elementary rooms that we use and our elementary kids utilize the three upper playgrounds in the afternoon. On a high day we have between 80 and 90 kids and on a low day we have 50 to 60.
We do not have a lunch program, all of the kids from TLC to Elementary bring their own lunch and morning snack. We provide afternoon snacks at 2:00 and 5:00 for Elementary and 3:00 and 5:00 for Preschool. We also have a summer program for the elementary and preschoolers. We are a large campus and in order to work here you have to be able to multi-task and go where you are needed.
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