The Facility

Memere & Robyns Home Away From Home Child Care offers 1175 sq/ft of space designed as a HOME AWAY FROM HOME CHILD CARE, nurturing, smoke-free, stimulating the environment for children to develop. Inside there is a full play and activity center. Separate kitchen, children's washroom, art and craft station, and reading corner, cozy corner and creative imagination play zone. There are musical instruments and a large assortment of children's books and variety of learning toys including stackers, sorters, and blocks.

New Features Added

• New Safety Equipment And Procedures
• Bilingual Early Years French Language
• Sensory Sand Box
• Preschool Classroom
• Preschoolers Preparation Concepts to help your child be prepared and successful for school.
• Printing their own name
• Identifying letters in their name.
• Identifying letters of the alphabet and sound letters make.
• Singing the alphabet song.
• Counting 1-30 ( beyond is encouraged)
• Identify colours
• Identify shapes
• Basic book reading skills and concepts (how to hold a book, turn pages, read left to right)
• We READ...READ...READ EVERYDAY TO YOUR CHILD.
• Cots
• Pedagogy ( Play Based Learning )
• Educational Material ( sensory, cognitive, linguistic etc. )
• Audio & Visual Equipment
• Toys
• Breakfast club
• Teaching hygiene and teeth brushing
• Child Yoga

Outside we have a large fenced in backyard with, playhouses, bouncy castle, swings, and trampoline and outside activities.

Great Location

We have a super location across from Woodlawn Park Forest and only 5 min walk to Rice Lawn Park and have sidewalks to park.

Safety

Providing a safe environment for your child is our primary goal. The first step in doing this is the Daycare facility is separate from our living spaces. We also have police security checks completed. We have a Security System, First Aid Kit and Fire Extinguisher in the house and smoke & carbon dioxide detectors on all level. We have plug protectors on every plug-in.

Daily Activities

As a mother, we can appreciate the importance of a child's healthy growth and development, both physically and mentally. Throughout the day we have a pre-planned itinerary, this does vary depending on weather and special events

What We Provide

1. Safe, Warm, Clean, Smoke-free and Stimulating Childcare Facility
2. Childcare between the hours of 7:00 am and 5:00 pm
3. Morning breakfast club and Afternoon Snack
4. Healthy, Warm Lunch
5. Clean and safe sleeping area with sleeping bags and cots
6. Large play and activity center
7. Fenced in backyard with age-appropriate toys

Goals

For Children

Based on our understanding of young children and their development, broad goals are set for each age group and then individual goals are set for each child. But, in general, we all strive to:

• Encourage positive social interactions: communicating, cooperating, empathy, sharing, manners and respecting each other.
• Enhance children’s self-esteem, self-sufficiency, and feelings of self-worth.
• Provide a language-rich environment in both English and French. We expose children to the spoken word in both languages and in turn, encourage their storytelling.
• Celebrate diversity and intrinsically teach respect for the world around us.
• Foster creativity in art, language, and thinking.
• Introduce a wide variety of activities to exercise both the large and small muscles of the body.
• Prepare children for success in Kindergarten and beyond.

For Parents ( A program, which provides )

• High-quality child care that supports their family’s needs
• Support of their relationship with their child
• Opportunities to increase understanding of child development
• Encouragement to trust their ability to resolve parenting issues
• Mutual support from and for other parents