Taught A Lot Childcare

I am Shirley Connolly, the owner and operator of Taught A Lot childcare in Tewksbury, MA. I offer a loving and safe environment for children from infants to 5 years. I have been caring for children for over 45 years.
I have been licensed by The Department of Early Education and Care since 1996. I have also been a certified preschool teacher through the state of Massachusetts since 1991. My assistant is a Certified Assistant by Early Education and Care with over 17 years of education, training and experience in childcare programs. We have been working together as a team for those 17 years.
We provide learning opportunities and a curriculum that is based on the individual needs of the children enrolled. We work with our preschoolers on social, emotional, physical and cognitive/intellectual needs daily. Whether a child needs help learning social skills, or may need help with refining fine motor (Fingers for writing skills) development, learning and practicing with identifying letters, shapes, self help skills, we have great success in all these areas and more.We find these strengths and weaknesses children have build upon them.
We believe children learn best from open ended experiences. Children are free to explore all medias of craft materials. They find their own creativity with no right or wrong way.
Many, many of our past childcare children have been known to win art shows in elementary school from having such early art experiences while with us. We go way beyond coloring in pages!!!! We have many weekly themes to make learning fun!
Our infants and toddlers are engaged and stimulated through story books, music and movement, children's songs and interactions from adults and little friends in our program. They learn baby signs as it is proven to help them learn speech and language skills at an earlier age. It builds self esteem and helps them to communicate their needs with peers and adults. This is even before they can talk!
We are trained yearly in infant and child CPR & First Aid. We are members of a
A daily midday email is sent out to all families about their child's daily activities. Our hours are 7:30 to 4:30 p.m., Mon-Fri.
We are a family owned business and value what we have to share with other families. With our many years in the early childhood education business, we are a wonderful resource for parents.
Give us a call to come tour our Home Based Child Care program!!!
Love is the Bridge from our home to yours.