Children love day care for many reasons, and by picking the best infant day care you will too! Day cares that offer infant care provide unique opportunities for your baby in addition to allowing you to go back to work, or take a few days a week to regain your sanity! Wee Care Preschool offers affordable, high quality infant day care for your little one so you can go about your day knowing they well taken care of, and having fun!
Children love day care because of the structure it offers. Ask any expert, and they will tell you babies need routine. By setting their biological clock, and teaching them that they have to follow rules. Rules, such as bedtime schedules, bring order to chaos. (www.parents.com) Your child’s teachers will work with your established schedule and adapt as your baby grows. Your little one will flourish in an environment where he or she can predict the next activity. Eating and napping at scheduled times ensure he or she is happy and well rested when making the transition back into the home at the end of the day.
As a parent, the structure of infant care allows you to drop your baby off at the same place every day without worrying about his or her caregiver being ill, or taking a vacation. The day care center doesn’t close when someone goes on vacation. Someone will be there to care for your baby while you are handling other business.

The care givers or teachers at your child’s center will also do their best to make sure your child enjoys his or her time there. A great love for children is a must for anyone who works in child care! Soon, your child will light up when his or her name called by the teacher. In addition to developing a relationship with your little one, the teachers are closely monitored and trained professionals. Unlike a nanny or relative, they must be CPR and first aid certified at regular intervals. The day care facility maintains these certifications and should be able to provide copies upon request. To ensure quality educational child care, teachers are also trained in age appropriate learning activities and standards. As they spend time with your child, they tailor your child’s day to his or her individual developmental needs and can alert you to any concerns that might arise.
Children are social beings and thrive in an environment surrounded by their peers. This is one more reason they love child care centers. Other kids like them are everywhere! Small babies can interact with each other or older infants by smiling and gurgling. As they grow, they will learn to communicate with other children and use their words to solve conflicts. They start building foundations for later relationships by learning how to make friends, share, and other social norms. www.childcare.net

You will love the ability to cope with, or the lack of separation anxiety. Every child is different, but day care will help each handle his or her own level of separation anxiety. Your child will become familiar with his or her teacher, and as that relationship develops, have less and less separation anxiety. This allows the transition to kindergarten to go smoothly. This fact does not mean that your child will not miss you and sometimes cry to communicate his or her feelings to you. However, you can leave knowing your baby is in good hands, with someone they love and trust.

The best infant day care will offer your baby a wide range of activities. Your child will learn through art, manipulating toys, being read stories, singing songs, and interactive play with teachers. All activities are educational and age appropriate. A good educational child care center can be easily spotted. When you walk in, teachers should be interacting with the children, monitoring their activities and assisting as needed. Typically, artwork or other crafts will be displayed. Your fridge will soon be covered in hand print turkeys, popsicle stick snowflakes, and paper hearts! Even during infant care, teachers will aid your child in making handprint or footprint crafts that will quickly become your dearest treasures. By engaging your child in structured learning activities, the day care facility is making the transition to kindergarten even easier. www.foxnews.com.

Another concern for parents is finding all of these benefits in an affordable infant care center. With three convenient locations in San Diego and the surrounding areas, Wee Care Preschool ensures parents have

San Diego preschool develops literacy every day. Raising confident readers starts with developmental activities throughout the child’s preschool years. These eleven early literacy activities for preschoolers and parents will inspire book time fun for you and your child.

Building Preschool Literacy Confidence

• Environment of Literacy
• Reading Activities on the Go
• Encourage Curiosity
• Using a Finger as a Guide
• Highlighting Sign Posts
• Making Connections Beyond the Story
• Rhyming Stories
• Variety of Material
• Reading and Sharing
• Short Reading Sessions
• Rereading the Favorites

Preschool Literacy Activities for Parents

Creating an environment of reading in the home places the importance of literacy in the child’s subconscious. You can do this by having books available. Having books within reach and several to choose from encourages school-age literacy. Furthermore, when you model reading pleasure, your young child will naturally emulate your behavior.

During your daily routine, you are probably out and about quite a bit. Reading activities on the go involve a connection of sounds, places, and people. Asking your child what kind of sound a dog makes, for instance, followed by “how does ‘d’ sound?” provides fun encouragement throughout your daily errands. Making a game of reading signs in the store, park, and other buildings too.

Along these same lines, you can encourage curiosity by fostering an inquisitive child. Asking questions is how preschool children put the pieces together. If your child is asking about ants, for example, playing a literacy game or reading a story about ants creates a path to discovery learning. This ‘fun’ is motivational for your child.

Regardless of what is being read, using a finger as a guide you can say each word while pointing to its spelled text in the story. Through repetition, your child will connect the sound of the word and letters to the printed word. As literacy progresses, your child will use his or her own finger to follow the text.

Also to these literacy activities for parents, highlighting sign posts in the reading develops ‘uh-ha’ moments for your young reader. Making a point of identifying “stop” or “exit” signs in the reading, for example, transfers outside of the book into real-life connections. Your child will be pointing at signs throughout your town.
Making connections beyond the story inspires confidence. Introducing new vocabulary words within the story gives a contextual foundation. When you are able to offer an extension by showing your child an example of the new word in action, the word will most likely be remembered. What does a prism actually look like compared to the book page?

Preschool Literacy Activities for Preschoolers

Using activities such as this San Diego preschool uses, rhyming stories, demonstrates a rhythm to letter and word patterns. Many popular children’s books have a sing-song structure making the language fun and easy to memorize through repetition. You probably remember your favorites—right?.

Literature offers many unique characters and plots. Reading a variety of material with your preschooler shows that reading is everywhere. You should encourage not only a variety of stories but consider non-fiction segments or even recipes.
Reading and sharing the text builds confidence with your parental support. During the emerging stages of literacy, your preschooler has a limited vocabulary. Allowing your child to “share” with the reading by saying the known words grows literary confidence. Eventually, your child will “share” more than you will.

Keep an eye on your young reader. You do not want your child to become frustrated with the complex process of decoding. It is a good idea at this stage to have short reading sessions. This doesn’t mean that you won’t have several. And, when your child is ready, you can add more time.

Your child has one or more favorites. Rereading the favorites is certainly okay. Anything that encourages reading is great. Favorite books, especially rhyming books, help children identify patterns through repetition. Letting your child read the same book should be encouraged.

Early Literacy Makes a Difference

Helping your child develop early literacy skills, gives him or her a head start on contextual learning. You can make a difference by sharing special literacy time with your child. Taking the extra step of enrolling your child in a preschool enrichment program makes a difference. It is as easy as clicking here.
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Developing Early Childhood Literacy Skills. (2016, November 27). Retrieved From http://www.childrens-books-and-reading.com/early-childhood-literacy.html

Preschools Literacy Program. (2016, November 27). Retrieved From http://nashvillepubliclibrary.org/bringingbookstolife/preschool-literacy-program/

Preschooler Reading Milestones. (2016, November 27). Retrieved From http://www.pbs.org/parents/education/reading-language/reading-milestones/preschooler-language-development-milestones/preschooler-reading/