Language/Verbal Skills: Help children acquire and develop speech. Play telephones, books and a variety of stories about pretend and real situations, puppets, interactive games, written or audio materials in the child's home language, story boards, table talk and more...

Cognitive/Creative Skills: Help children think clearly and solve problems. Matching, sorting, arranging things in sequence, counting things, measuring, recognizing and creating patterns, comparing differences and similarities, puzzles, blocks, magnets, magnifying glass, a balance scale, sand or similar substance and cars and ramps. Also child directed creative art, using items such as, large pieces of paper, child safe scissors, non-toxic paint, play dough, miscellaneous materials such as scraps of construction paper, fabric, yarn, wood, buttons, feathers, foam shapes, pipe cleaners, cotton balls, etc...

Physical/Musical Movement: Help children discover the magical, universal, and educational wonders of music. Musical chairs, dancing with scarfs or streamers, musical instruments, and a wide variety of music from around the world. Also playing with large and small balls, large and small hoops, ride-on toys, push toys, running relay races and other outdoor active play, etc...

Social Skills: Help children cultivate group interaction, confidence, and self-esteem. We also use table talk (children sharing stories), the children make choices to be kind and make new friends, etc...

Dramatic Play: Role play by dressing-up in clothing from around the world. Using props, blocks, stuffed animals, dolls, miniature animals and people, doll houses. Dressing-up in career clothing, such as, a nurse, doctor, police, fire fighter, mail carrier, and other clothing from around the world. Your child will be working with their hands using (plastic replicas of) real tools, such as, a hammer, screw driver, drill, saw, level, measuring tape, a rolling pin, cookie cutters, broom and dustpan, measuring cups and spoons, also puppets and the Karaoke machine.

For more information see our web site at www.susiesdaycare.com, call 661 266-1064
or 965-8281 for an appointment to see our daycare and pick up more information.

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