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Daily schedule / arrival and departure times
The daycare centres are open from 7:30 a.m.
(7:15 a.m. for the Queensdale centre) to 6:00 p.m. All centres offer full-time and part-time services. Please be advised that the centres are closed for a two week period over the winter holidays as well during all or part of August at the Gainsborough, Queensdale and Etobicoke locations.
Curriculum
The daily programme includes individual and group activities, indoor and outdoor play, directed and semi-directed activities as well as transition times. General care such as meals, toileting, naps and dressing are part of the daily routines.
Play
Through play, the child acquires a variety of new skills, learns to make choices as well as to recognize and respect the needs and feelings of others. Play stimulates the learning process. Each child develops at his/her own pace in a stimulating and enjoyable environment.
Routines
Routines are composed of activities in which the children participate during the course of the day to respond to their biological and developmental needs. Toilet training, body and dental hygiene, dressing and undressing, snacks and meals, departures and arrivals, are called "routines" since they occur regularly throughout the day.
Outside play and gross motor activities
The Ministry of Community and Social Services requires that the children engage in outdoor activities for a minimum of one hour each day, to stimulate the development of gross motor skills. The daycare meets these requirements except during inclement weather at which time an alternate indoor activity is presented. Please ensure that your children are dressed appropriately according to season.
Learning centres are available to the children throughout the day excluding transition periods when the children move from one activity to another. The learning centres are attractive, clean, stimulating, and reflect the theme of the week whenever possible.
The role of the educators is:
- to provide adequate and sufficient material for children to play with;
- to set and enforce appropriate limits and encourage children to respect them;
- to encourage sharing among children and respect for the material;
- to ensure that children have the opportunity to play in the various centres and learn the skills associated with each one of them.
Our learning centres are as follows:
Construction centre: With the help of wooden blocks of different sizes, vehicles and miniature figures, children can reproduce their view of their world. This centre encourages creativity, imagination and cooperation.
Dolly centre or dramatic play area: This area allows children to reproduce scenarios that are familiar to them. It promotes opportunities for social development, imagination and language acquisition.
Library and computer corner: This centre enable children to spend some quiet time alone or in a small group to listen to music, look at a book, or play a game on the computer. It promotes early reading and math skills as well as eye-hand coordination.
Science/discovery table: Children discover objects that attract their curiosity and stimulate their interests, promoting problem resolution.
Cognitive games centre: This centre promotes cognitive development, concentration through association games such as puzzles and fine motor skills.
Art centre: This centre stimulates the creativity and development of senses through the use of different materials. The manipulation of paints, modeling clay, and other materials are used to develop dexterity and fine motor skills.
Our approach in regards to the art centre is focused primarily on the learning process rather than the finished product. Each week children participate and generate art work. We strongly encourage parents to take their children’s work home. This gesture will demonstrate your interest in the child’s art work and will reinforce him/her to participate regularly.
Circle: The circle is a time when children are brought together to explore the week’s theme, new concepts, presentation, choices for activities, appropriate limits and particularly French vocabulary. The role of the educator is to promote language acquisition of language through information sharing, discussion and repetition of new vocabulary using speech, songs and games.
The personnel are responsible for determining the themes that will be explored each week, using the children’s emerging interests as inspiration. A detailed weekly programme for indoor and outdoor activities is posted in each class and is available to parents as a reference. It is designed to meet the needs and ages of the children and adheres to the objectives and criteria set by the Ministry.
Children learn French when they are in contact with their peers and teachers in an environment where the activities and routines are conducted in French. The children in the Francophone class must understand and speak French.
The objective of our French immersion programme offered exclusively at the Coxwell centre, is to familiarize children with the French language.
Etobicoke
: from July 2nd to July 27th 2012
Queensdale:
from July 2nd to July 27th 2012
Gainsborough:
from July 2nd to July 27th 2012
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