Karen's Kidzone

I have had my in-home licensed daycare for 16 years now. I work by myself and never hire outside help at any time. I was previously a kindergarten teacher and assistant director at a private school. I enjoy providing a safe, loving, and an educationally fun environment for children to have fun, learn, and thrive in. I provide hands on opportunities for the children to experiment, learn, explore, and just have fun on their journey into learning and understanding how things work. Depending on their age if they are nearing kindergarten age I will start preparing them for everything they need to know upon entering kindergarten. I have been highly successful in my kindergarten preparedness routine as almost all of the children that have been in my program and have gone into kindergarten have been way more advanced than their classmates. For example, I currently have a 5 year old that will be entering kindergarten in a couple weeks and I have been working with her all year and she is reading at 2nd grade level, can count well past 100, can do addition and subtraction, understands sequencing, can use scissors well, understands directions, understands how to make patterns from shapes, numbers, colors, can visually identify all letters both upper and lowercase, numbers, shapes. My point being she is well prepared to start her journey into elementary school and will cruise easily into any work put her way! I do this with all my 4/5 year olds. Most have gone and thrived in school and after a few years go into the gifted program at their schools. At my daycare I serve breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack. I will work with vegan and vegetarian diets as I have two in my program like that now. I will work with any problems or hurdles your child has. I have one with a bit of a speech problem and I have been using speech techniques to try and help him get through this. We have circle time, read books, play games, do academics (depending on age), we have art activities, musical activities, outdoor play (depending on weather status). I do not drive anywhere with the children ever. I am closed on major holidays. I have excellent references you may call of current clients or from past clients. I currently have two full time spots open for children 6 weeks to kindergarten ages. I enjoy teaching children and providing a loving and safe environment for them all.