Ashton & Friends Child Care Center

We believe that infants and young develop and thrive best when they are given a nurturing, loving, and responsive environment. An environment that is committed to children and supports a variety of learning opportunities where children are free to explore. We strive to create meaningful experiences for children that will help develop thier cognitive,Language, physical and socio-emotional development. Infant and young toddlers have not yet mastered their communcation skills. making it a number priorty forus to ensure a program that develops trust and security.By providing these,children become secure and competent in thier journey towards independence as they gain knowledge about thier worlds.

We understand that children develop at differently and therefore, we provide a curriculum that is based on each child’s individual needs. Infants and young toddlers learn through palt and everything they do is a learning process. Our role is to be an assistrant of this learning process, thus we offer an environment rich in challenging and age-appropriate activties.The childewn will be taught through play, music,interactions with adults and others children,and reading time.Everyday will include playtime,talking time,and outside time (weather premitting).
We believe that this age group learns when actively engaged with all aspects of thier environment: teachers,peers materials, etc. Children also learn best when exploring topics that are their families.This consistency in routine,will help the children gain a sense of care to the children andindependence within thier day. We believe that young children need to develop trusting and caring relationships with caregivers in order to feel safe and secure in their environment.
Children are provived with a variety of choices within the learning environment with teachers serving as facilitators,participants,and observers.The daily routine remains consistent although flexibility is incorporated as the children demonstrate changing needs.With consistent limits and behaviors and situation.There is variety of material to support and challenge the children’s ability. We intend to share the choice of children’s course of learning, by following the lead of children when presenting them with new topics and information. A collaborative relationship is developed between teachers and parents to ensure continuity between home and school.
We believe that children learn by doing. Interacting with thier environment is critical to the exploration and discovery of the world around them.Children by nature are curious about their environment and engage in problems solving in a variety of ways: asking questions, trials and error and experimenting with world around them. We believe that when chilren’s natural foundation of curiosity and inquiry are supported through opportunities through a learning experience, new information is generated and discovered.Children learn from the physical environment surrounding them as well as peers and adults with whom they interavt.We are here to provide a safe.loving nurtuing and rich environment where children explore,grow and learn.Throughout their time in the classroom,much attention will be focused on the development of social/emotional skills, self-help skills,cognitive/language skills,fine motor skills and gorss motor skills.Our program is designed to provide children a variety of opportunities to work independently and in groups.When disagreements emerge we encourage them to problem solve together and guide them through the process. Since routines and consistency are important to preschooler, a schedule is providied so chilren can predict the next day.
We are going to provide a unique before-and after-school learning experience to keep the school-ager motivated and focused in a fun and stimulating environment. The before-and after-school program was developed to meet the growing educational needs of the children.They get to spend time with friends and enjoy activities that are relevant to school-age interests.Our school-age program also aligns with school calendaars to provide a fun-filled and educational offering during holidays, teacher in-service day and other breaks.