Programs
Your child will have a safe, secure home away from home where they will play, learn, and grow with friends. We offer your infant a nurturing, warm, and loving environment starting at six weeks old. We are committed to smoothly transitioning from your home to ours. Our experienced staff is here to provide nurturing guidance while laying out the foundation for continuous growth and development. Staff help facilitate developmentally appropriate activities and classroom management daily.
Our Program offers opportunities for children to learn through play and academics. We provide an engaging environment with intentionally planned learning experiences encompassing every aspect of classroom life. While individually nurturing each child, we also offer a high level of interaction with daily whole-group instruction to promote social skills development, balanced attention to play time, and the development of each child’s confidence, self-esteem, and love of learning and individual interests.
We are focused on learning areas such as dramatic play, movement, music, numbers, creative arts, language, and sensory exploration. Preparing Your Child for Life-Long Learning.
NBC’s Learn and Play offers a stimulating environment that promotes good citizenship, communication skills, respect for one another, fair sportsmanship, and many activities. Learning at Noni Bear Childcare continues when school is out for the summer. Here, we continue to learn and Play through hours of fun and a curriculum of summer activities. We reinforce the years of learning through games, gardening, trips, and arts and crafts and build on the academics they have already learned in school.
Infant (Sun Bears) (6 Weeks - 12 Months)
Our infant room is filled with educational and age-appropriate toys and materials. We follow a weekly curriculum including the following areas:
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Music & Movement/Story Time: Includes self-expression, songs, books, instruments and fingerplays.
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Art & Sensory: This section includes simple art projects, coloring, and many other items to help with sensory development.
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Gross Motor Play
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Fine-Motor Play & Self: Help Skills Building—Includes stacking blocks, connecting toys, cooking projects, and manipulative toys.
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Play & Learn Time: There is scheduled time at the beginning and end of each day for the kids to explore the room and play with their favorite toys. This is a good time for them to develop language and social skills.
Toddler (Panda Bears) ( 12 Months - 24 Months)
Children at this age are learning to:
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Transition from a bottle to a sippy cup
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Communicate through practical sign language
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Build expressive vocabulary
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Develop fine motor skills
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Explore the environment in a positive way
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Engage in sensory activities
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Refine gross motor skills, balance, and coordination
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Express independence
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Enter beginning stages of cooperative play
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Gain an understanding of basic phonetic and mathematics concepts, opposites, colors, and shapes
Toddler (Polar Bears) (2 - 3 years old)
Children discover they are separate individuals at this age, develop independence and self-awareness, explore language, and strengthen their bodies every day.
This program is designed to gently introduce your child to the classroom environment's experience and community.
A warm and cozy home away from home welcomes each child. The space is carefully prepared to meet the needs of children in this age group.
Here, we encourage children to observe, question, and seek answers. The curriculum focuses on enriching vocabulary, building receptive and expressive language skills, and fostering self-awareness and socialization. Children can move around the home area and select materials and activities that spark their interest. Children are engaged with materials and are learning their space in the world. They are gently encouraged as they establish everyday life skills, such as feeding themselves snacks, cleaning up, and using the toilet.
Early and Pre-K (Brown Bear) (3 - 5 years old)
Our Preschool/pre-K program ensures that your child’s mind is engaged and helps create a life-long love of learning and exploration. Your child is introduced to new experiences that develop independence, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Children begin to form stronger friendship groups, and our educators help them learn how to play cooperatively and belong to a community.
Our curriculum includes:
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Language and Literacy
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Mathematics
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Science and Technology
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Social Studies
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Art/Crafts
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Nature/Environment
School Age (Grizzly Bears) : Before and after care
NBC’s Learn and Play offers a stimulating environment that promotes good citizenship, communication skills, respect for one another, fair sportsmanship, and many activities.
Children will be given the opportunity to participate in games, group activities, art and crafts, and many other fun learning experiences.
Designed specifically for elementary school age students, we provide them with age-appropriate activities in a safe and secure environment that allows children to be children
Before and After school care with transportation options.
Summer Care (Bears) of all ages
Pre-registration is required by April each year. We provide a unique and exciting learning experience through various activities:
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Gardening
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Nature
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Arts & Crafts
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Music
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Educational enhancement projects
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Water play
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And more!
Summer camp at Noni Bear Childcare is all about fun, but it’s also much more. It gives kids an opportunity to explore, create, investigate and design as they develop existing skills and learn new ones. We invite your children on a new adventure here at NBC where we will Learn Play and Grow together.