Teddy Bear Day Care And Preschool, Alexandria

Teddy Bear Day Care and Preschool provides environments that teach and provides adults who care. At Teddy Bear Day Care and Preschool, each child is important. Teddy Bear Day Care and Preschool recognizes the need for and strives to provide all children and parents with warm, nurturing, friendly relationships with teachers. In addition, Teddy Bear Day Care and Preschool provides each child with a preschool experience that includes an individualized learning program based on six key competency areas. By individualizing learning based upon each child's interests and strengths, children are allowed to progress as far as they are developmentally able in areas of language and literacy, logic and mathematics, movement and music, creative representation, social relations and initiative. From infancy through pre-Kindergarten, children ascend a ladder of progress in each of the competency areas with careful attention provided to tailoring activities to challenge children to climb to the next rung of development. A special program is provided that promotes well being as children are provided with the tools to express emotions, learn self-control and solve social problems. A reading and writing program is provided for our three year old, four year old and pre-Kindergarten classes that expose children to the written language through the use of quality children's literature and a variety of writing experiences. Infant, toddler and two-year-old programs are rich and stimulating with emphasis on large and small motor development, building on sounds to facilitate language development, multi-sensory exploration, hand and eye coordination and self help skills. The open door policy of Teddy Bear Day Care and Preschool affords parents the opportunity to be an integral part of the learning experience through volunteering time and talent in the classroom or center, parent-teacher conferences and parent education workshops.