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Philosophy
 
I believe that children learn best when given ample opportunity to explore the world around them. So much can be learned from taking a nature walk in our community or even taking a trip to the grocery store to choose ingredients for a cooking activity. With this in mind, I keep our days structured but in a way that is flexible enough for us to take more time when needed to make the most of our experiences. An hour outdoors can turn into two if it is a beautiful day. Block towers can be left up for more than a day if they are still an integral part of play.

Learning Through Play

Purpose:
To provide a home-based child care program that incorporates the needs of each child as an individual and incorporates the group as a whole. To provide children many opportunities for hands-on learning and creative play. My library includes a permanent collection of over 400 children's books and is rapidly growing!

Curriculum:
My curriculum is drawn from a variety of resources including Handwriting without Tears, Hooked on Phonics, Counting on Math and Music Together.
 
Overview:
My program promotes learning through a wide variety of group and individual activities, play time and educational field trips. Circle and story times are key elements of our day. Circle time includes songs, finger plays, updating our calendar, assessing the weather, music and movement. We also learn the 'Kindness Pledge' (please see link below).

Each month we explore themes that reflect our community, seasons and holidays and/or topics of interest to the children. Incorporated into these themes are basic skills (such as letter, color, number and shape recognition), early reading, early math, early writing, music, arts and crafts, cooking, science and cultural activities.
 
Activities are included which celebrate diversity and allow children to learn about people, holidays and creative activities from around the world.

Behavior and Discipline

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Nature Walk at Lake Elkhorn

Angie's Family Child Care * Columbia, Maryland 21044