Program Information

At Koala Bear Daycare we provide a flexible, structured pre-school program, ensuring that your child feels safe, loved and happy. We offer developmentally appropriate activities to help the whole child grow and develop socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively and creatively. Our goal is to help prepare the children to confidently enter kindergarten.

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Every day our program includes arts and crafts, free play, structured play, circle time which is singing, dancing, games and story times. We teach an alphabet a day, we count everyday, as we do a calendar time as a group activity. We have two outside times a day depending on the weather. The children have a lot of opportunities to play, both free play and structured play throughout the day. During free play the children can dress up and pretend to be different people or animals. They can choose to work freely in the art centre by colouring, cutting, drawing and gluing. They may play at the Brio train table, or play in our toy centre that includes a variety of toys, play at the computer, puzzles, puppets, housekeeping corner, books, play dough, Lego, building toys and much more. During structured play we would only have one group of toys or activities out. For example, puzzles and building toys. Our reason is to provide a balance of play time and learning experiences throughout the day. In our program we have many themes throughout the year. Some of them are, Back to school, I'm special, Apples, Fall, Thanksgiving, Owls, Halloween, Hibernation, 911, Senses, Colours, Healthy habits,Winter, Christmas, Valentines, Nursery rhymes, Shapes, Numbers, St. Patrick’s, Easter, Bugs& insects, Planting, Dinosaurs, Space, Summer, Butterflies, Weather, Spring, Gardening, Farm, Jungle, Under the sea and much more. Each time we change the theme, we change our environment to encourage the theme by changing our toys, drama corner, books, puzzles and puppets. We do a variety of crafts, songs, poems, stories and activities related to our theme. We serve nutritious snacks in the morning and in the afternoon. We serve milk at both snacks as well as at lunch. Canada's Food Guide recommends, children aged two and half to five should receive 5 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables per day. We serve mostly fruits and vegetables at both snacks. At lunch the staff eat with the children, talk about healthy foods, encourage good manners and we socialize. We have two events a year that all parents, siblings and children get together. They are Christmas and Graduation. At Christmas we have the children do a concert for the parents. We all have a lunch or dinner together. Santa attends with gifts for the children. Our graduation day is held at a public park and we all have lunch. The graduates are presented a package that recognizes their accomplishments with a certificate grad photo and other gifts. We feel communication is very important between child care provider and parent. We want parents to feel comfortable when you leave your child in our care. Every child is different, unique and special and is encouraged to grow and develop at their own pace. At the end of the day, we hope that when your child goes home, they feel happy and proud of themselves and tell you all about the fun they had.