Daycare Observation Report

The Kids attainment Centre is a privately-owned day veneration expertness and non-formal educational institution for small fryren up to 12 days old. It is determined at the heart of the City of Downtown, just behind The Business Building, a convenient place where p arnts and guardians send word drop off their kidren safely. It operates from 630 AM to 600 PM daily, and closes only during major holidays. Like a nonher(prenominal) day deliver premeditation facilities, The Kids Learning Centre strives to provide the best in churl care.As part of their program to deliver reference service to the kids and their get ups, the reduce has established the following I. Security, Safety, Health The shopping sum of m bingley has an open-door policy, standing and welcoming parents to visit and mark their tiddlerren at all time. This, however, is a regulated procedure in monastic order to provide pledge for the children, and is implemented under the following measures * Upon enrolment, the parent/ guardian is issued an individualized Parent Identification Number, which he/she uses to go through the instalments entry establishment.Visitors are required to present a reasonable ID with photo before be allowed to enter, and he or she is escorted and supervised by the Assistant Director during the entire visit. * The concentrate on has an emergency lock-down procedure oblige entry willing automatically send an alarm to the police section. Moreover, the revolve about has a closed circuit correctroom monitoring system, wherein the classroom is fitted with a four-way camera. The system records daily activities for the protection of both children and caregivers. In addition, sprinklers and fire extinguishers are present in e truly area of the building.Fire alarms are installed, and the fire department is automatically alerted when the alarm goes off. The school conducts a calendar monthly fire praxis and fire alarm safety practice to ensure that the staffs is prepared in case of emergency, and would be able to protect the children should a crisis occur. Aside from security and fire safety, the centre is in addition very grouchy about the wellness and well-being of the kids. The centre, licensed by the Department of Health, provides healthy, nutritious, and delicious meals and snacks for the children.The daily posting is planned by the schools chef and the Director a month in advance. Also, a sick child is not allowed to enter the facility to avoid contagion and a doctors note stating that the child is not contagious must be presented before the Director would allow the child to re bring together his group. II. Environment The classroom is bright and colourful a place designed to be attractive and interesting to kids. The walls are multicolour with animal pictures, and the floor is covered by carpets, safety mats, and cushions in acute colours.There are six rooms and each room is fully-equipped with age suppress safe toy s that stimulate the different senses and develop gross motor and hunky-dory motor skills, including building blocks, rubber balls, stuffed animals, books, tinker toys, and m any(prenominal) more. These are organise on kid-sized shelves, baskets, and containers that develop a childs organization and compartmentalization skills. The room is a place for kids to take on fun and attend at the same time. They are able to express their energy in safety, and in any case explore, experiment, touch, and fill their senses using the wide variety of skill materials available in the area.III. Caregivers The Kids Learning Centre is comp beard of a group of devoted individuals trained to protect, nurture, and school children. As part of the schools policy, all the members of the staff underwent a criminal background check through the Department of Public wellbeings state and federal fingerprinting system before being hired. They are likewise First Aid/ CPR Certified. The centre is presen tly composed of seven individuals the music director the ancillary director quin consider instructors and two adjunct teachers. * Director. Ms.Mayan holds a Degree in Early child care program line, and has been a director for cardinal years. She is very warm and friendly. * Assistant Director. Ms. Dina likewise has a degree in Early Childcare Education and has more than 30 years of take care in a childcare facility. She supervises and trains teachers. * give way Teachers * Baby Teacher. Ms. Mina is a exalted school graduate and has 5 years experience in the medical field and 20 years of experience with children. She loves to talk to babies with her calm and tranquilize voice. * Young Toddlers Teacher.Ms. Fine is shortly taking up Child Development Associate Certification and has a three years experience as day care assistant teacher at the YMCA. She is arranged in setting up limits, do sure young toddlers production the toys they are playing with before they scrambl e an separate toy. * Older Toddler Teacher. Ms. Georgia has childcare certification from wear Kid Care and has six years experience as assistant teacher at Head Start. She can handle difficult children very well. She is firm and the children listen to her when she says somewhatthing.Pre-School Teacher. Ms. Barbie finished her 2 years in Education and has three years experience as lead teacher. * Pre-K Teacher. Ms. Nita finished her refer degree and earned her directorship certificate at the Best Care Centre. She has been a lead teacher for ten years and have been a director for five years. * Assistant Teachers * Older Toddlers Assistant Teacher. Ms. Darlene is in her senior high school and she just started a couple of months ago. The children are very at rest and love to play with her. * Pre-K Assistant Teacher. Ms.Julia has been in the academe for twelve years, and has been operative in daycare for two years. As a day care sueer, she is very warm and friendly with the childre n. She is very patient and unendingly come alongs the kids to always be adequate to each other. One particular teacher I observed to be the most effective is Nita the Pre-K teacher. Her class is so incorporated she follows her daily schedule, she is very warm and friendly when parents drop off her/his child. She supervises her class very well. Even when she is talking to an adult, she is still able to hear and canvass whats going on in her class.She uses the reward system to encourage children to participate in group activities. She always tells jokes and the children love it. She teaches various skills to her class, such(prenominal) as dancing, singing and storytelling, as well as some Spanish words. Two Instances that Ive observed about Ms. Nitas quality child care were * when a child was hurt while playing external Ms Nita immediately and calmly attended to the child and talked in gentle manner. The other one who apparently hurt him was next to Ariana, watching as the te acher performs first aid.After Ms Nita was sure the Ariana was fine, she talked to both Ariana and the other child and asked them what really happened, she asked both side very patiently and then asked them what they should do next time, both boy apologizes and came to a conclusion that it is not nice to keep hands to others. * Another instance I observed was that Ms, Nita each ask the children to check how they are doing both at the day care and at home I particularly remember when she asked Karina and hows she doing at home, the child answer that she is sad because her dad went to jail.I saw how her compassion rise up as she talked to the child and gave her a big sympathetic hug. IV. Activities The Kids Learning Centre provides a program to develop compulsory social skills and ideals and realise about their world through age-appropriate play, projects and activities. It provides a stable and protected learning environment that fosters a solid foundation for lifelong success. Th e children are relief to foster a love for nature and the environment through the centres Agricultural Program. In that program, the children experience how to cultivate and develop the Earth.Through country lessons that include outdoor planting of fruits and vegetables, each child is able to experience the joy of caring for the Earth. The children also experience daily interactions that promote positive self concepts. All programs are curriculum based Infant through school-age children. The daily schedule for Pre-K is as follows 630 830 AM Free Play 835 900 artifice Project 900 1000 Breakfast 1000-1030 batch while 1030-1130 Gym Class or remote Time 1130-1200 Science/ Math 1200 NN Lunch Time 100 300 Nap Time 00 330 eat Time 330 400 Story Time 400 430 Review Time 430 530 Outside Play 530 600 depository library Time From six cardinal in the morning up to octad thirty in the morning, the children are allowed to choose centres (like dramatic play, table toys, or bloc ks ) of their choice giving them freedom to select a toy or game for themselves in a small group, at Eight thirty to Nine in the morning, the children make art or crafts this activity enhances the childrens fine motor skills at the same time appreciate the smash of art.At Nine o time to Nine thirty in the morning, the children wash up their hands and have their breakfast. decennium O clock up to Ten thirty in the morning is circle time during circle time, children learn the different season, month of the year, days of the week, the alphabets and numbers and study a particular book and song of the day. At Ten thirty to Eleven in the morning, the children will go outside to get fresh air and to hiking their gross motor skills.At eleven o clock to twelve noon the children observe a science experiment or play maths games depending on the lesson plan for the day. At twelve noon up to one o clock, the children wash their hands and have their lunch. At one O clock to three o clock in the afternoon, the children will have their nap time. If the child cant go to sleep, the child will be provided a book and enter quietly or he/she can lay quietly on her cot, Three O clock noon is snack time, three thirty to four thirty is follow-up time where children will be asked what they have learned for the day.Four thirty to five thirty in the afternoon is outside play and finally five thirty to six thirty is library time the children will read book quietly as they wait for their parents to pick them up. V. Guidance and assure The Kids Learning Centre sets rules with the children at the beginning of the school year. The childs role in the Guidance Process allows the child to be knotty in writing the class rules. The teachers set clear limits and are always consistent.They redirect the children whenever possible. They include the children in the problem solving processes. Positive reinforcing stimulus and acknowledgement of good behaviour is encouraged. If a child exhib its improper behaviour, he/she is removed from the area The teacher then discusses the improper behaviour with the child what choice would be better next time and allows the child to return to the activity as soon as he or she feels she can already manage his/her behaviour appropriately.Should a conflict arise surrounded by two kids, they will have a reasonable opportunity to close the problem on their own, under the watchful eye of the teacher, before a she steps in. They will be given the chance to make an military campaign to change any unacceptable behaviour. If a child hurts another child, the teacher will attend to the hurt child immediately. The child that did the injuring will preventative with the injured child and the staff member looking after the injured child, until the injured child is ready to return to the classroom activities.The former will be asked what s/he can do to make the latter(prenominal) feel better. If the teachers see a continuing pattern of misb ehaviour, the following steps will be initiated * Phone call from the teacher informing the parent of the concern or red flags that have been observed. * As parents have a major role in the guidance process, they are requested to assign any relevant information with the teachers to help understand any profound issues. They are encouraged to open up when the teacher gives notification of a concern or if a continuing pattern of misbehaviour is observed.They are expected to follow through on any recommendations made by the staff including evaluation by the school district. * Contact between parents and the centre is made within two weeks of the recommendation, * Staff members are expected to work as a team so everyone can be consistent in expectations and help the child understand what behaviour is acceptable and not acceptable. * After attempts have been made to meet the individual demand of the child, any child that has demonstrated inability to benefit from the type of care offer ed by our school, or whose presence is detrimental to the group, shall be discharged from the school.The centre prohibits any form of corporal punishment or yelling at a child, ridiculing a child or the childs family, blaming, teasing, insulting, name calling, or threatening the child with punishment, withholding food, affection, or positive attention. Personally, I grow that The Kids Learning Centre ranks high in the following areas * Security. The security system and fire safety features are technologically advanced and are rather impressive. * Nutrition. The childrens diet is balanced, and they receive highly nutritious meals and snacks daily. * Kids.The children are only magnificent. Although The Kids Learning Centres main goal is it to provide quality care for the children, the fact still remains that it is a business. It is, therefore, not surprise that despite its efforts to provide excellent service much is left to be desired. Some areas that can be emendd include * Teac her Benefits. The centre lacks benefits and incentives for teachers, and is not very generous with remuneration and salary increase. Management also falls short in terms of support and encouragement for their staff. * steep Turn-Over.Due to the lack of benefits for teachers, the turn-over rate is high. This is disadvantageous as constant adjustment is undeniable between co-workers as well as between teacher and child. * Discipline. Also, some teachers become too absorbed in terms of child crack that compassion is overlooked. It is ironic because some of the teachers are themselves in need of moderate in order to avoid squabbling among themselves. The centre would benefit most if it could improve on the following areas* The management needs to evaluate teachers fairly and give benefits, incentives, and salary increases accordingly. The management needs to provide a better support system for the teachers give positive reinforcement, remind the teachers their duties and responsibil ities. * The management also needs to set a better standard for teachers and their behaviour, not only towards the kids hardly also among themselves. * Teachers should have training at least every ass to help them learn new strategies in caring for the little ones. * Teachers should join a caregiver/teachers association to help them get encouragement from other professionals.