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I recently heard that there is a French family child care program in my area. The provider speaks French and speaks to the children in French, reads stories in French, etc. I am also aware of a nearby 24-hour daycare and it got me thinking about specialties in child care. Do you have a specialty or a niche? Is there something about your program, either in the curriculum or structure, that makes parents choose you and sets you apart from other programs? I would love to hear...
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Very relevent in today's world. Here are some threads on Daycare Niche Markets: https://www.daycare.com/forum/tags.php?tag=niche+market -
Community in the classroom....we are use it as our classroom
Field trips everywhere we can go in our community and learn...
I have people who love that I offer this and then there are others who see it as a deal breaker.
the field trips is what sets me apart form the rest....
We have two to three each week.
This week we have one everyday....Comment
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Is there anyway you can really explain your program and how you teach it? I understand the whole community thing but do you just pick someplace and go to it?
I also know you do preschool so how do you incorrporate into a program that you are gone on field trips alot. Also, how do you go to so many places?
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Wow! Would you mind sharing some of the places you go? With so many trips I can imagine that they are not just your run of the mill preschool hot spots. What are some of the more unusual or unique ones? Also, how do you go about setting these up? Do you just call and say I'd like to bring a group of kids to visit? Do you go scout the location first?Approximately how much time would you say you spend setting up each trip? So many questions for you
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I will PM you my email address and ask all you want....Wow! Would you mind sharing some of the places you go? With so many trips I can imagine that they are not just your run of the mill preschool hot spots. What are some of the more unusual or unique ones? Also, how do you go about setting these up? Do you just call and say I'd like to bring a group of kids to visit? Do you go scout the location first?Approximately how much time would you say you spend setting up each trip? So many questions for you!Comment
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You worded it so much better then me! Thats probably why she will send you her email address but not I-:Wow! Would you mind sharing some of the places you go? With so many trips I can imagine that they are not just your run of the mill preschool hot spots. What are some of the more unusual or unique ones? Also, how do you go about setting these up? Do you just call and say I'd like to bring a group of kids to visit? Do you go scout the location first?Approximately how much time would you say you spend setting up each trip? So many questions for you!:::
Actually I was wondering so many of the same things.
I just took a class last night on field trips but we have no where to go here. This was in the big city and there is so much more to do there.Each day is a fresh start
Never look back on regrets
Live life to the fullest
We only get one shot at this!!
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CK you have my email address silly?????You worded it so much better then me! Thats probably why she will send you her email address but not I-::::
Actually I was wondering so many of the same things.
I just took a class last night on field trips but we have no where to go here. This was in the big city and there is so much more to do there.
OMG do you?? You do, I know you do..Comment
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We go on frequent outings. Today we went on a hot air balloon ride - ok, so it was tethered and only went up 400ft, but it was still a hot air balloon ride.Comment
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heres a few things I can share with you that I do....
I live in a small town, next to big cities, yet I find that I hardly ever leave my own city..
Examples..... Things that are round...
last week we went to a pizza place and we learned to make pizza. Once cooked we ate there.
We learned at this lesson,
math, shapes, cooking
patience, teamwork, skill building,
table manners
respecting members of our community
how to pay a bill, using real money
we cleaned the tables and swept the floors.
We then went to the park where we played circle games
ring around the rosies
hula-hoops
duck-duck-goose
Next day we went to our farm......
we picked tons of veggies/fruits....
then we came home and cut all of the veggies we picked into circles.
cucumbers, apples and tomatoes into circles...I had to throw in some from the store to complete the lesson on circles with food.....
I always google things...like did you know that this month is national aviation month?
We have gone to........the airport, sat from afar and watched the planes take off while eating a pick nic lunch
We went to the air museum and climbed in and out of old war planes.
We went to the air park where they fly mini RC air planes and had a blast. One of the kids even got the assist in helping to fly the RC plane..
Still to come....we will go to UPS flight grounds and get to put empty boxes on a black belt to watch them ride up to the planes..
How do I do it??
Well first off, INSURANCE I have a 3.5million dollar policy that a lot of these companies require me to have in order to stop foot on their property..
I always have to go through a lot of phone calls and find the right people to talk to.
It also helps to know people. Every where we go I am talking about what we do. In fact, my connection to UPS was from someone I met at the nail salon. We started talking and she told me what she did for work. In the end, we now have a field trip there next week.Last edited by daycare; 11-15-2012, 05:49 PM.Comment
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Our niche is being a Christian daycare. We do Bible stories each day, pray before eating, go to chapel, and just generally keep Christ first in everything we do.Comment
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I think my Niche' is primarily infant and toddler care. My favorite age is probably 7 or 8 months (sitting up, crawling), to 3. If they've been with me all along, I can usually tolerate them for another year, but otherwise, those pesky preschoolers sort of drive me bonkers.
JK-but while I can teach and plan a curriculum, it's really not my favorite thing in the world. I prefer the days when theres some order to the day, some activities to liven things up, but not this huge expectation that we just have to learn x,y, and z today. It feels more natural to me that way.Comment
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Infant care & providing low ratio child/adult care. There is usually only 1-2 here ,besides my own toddler,and school age children (when they are out of school) .
I love having them all on a schedule (on becoming babywise with a mix of baby whisperer thrown in) . I won't take babies any more that have no routine at home and parents do everything only on a whim/on demand. For example, I have a 7 month old who has to eat on demand , but its still every 3-4 hours so there is still predictability . As I can always "know" when he will need to eat based on his last feeding. . I have my 13 month son and three others under the age of 13 months different days/times so never all here at once or every day. My son and two of them nap,play, as eat all at the same times (generally)... Which makes my day go so much smoother and chaos free. Its the one erratic/non schedule baby that messes everything up. Her parents seem to be trying and say they want to do what I suggest (told me to let her know any suggestions) but its like what I tell them anything they just don't seem to get it yet. Its a two steps back one step forward process with them so I'm hoping there will be some improvement soon if they keep bringing her at the same times.Last edited by Holiday Park; 11-18-2012, 09:14 PM. Reason: spelling errors, editing out repeating sentencesComment
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