Programs

Preschool age group

Preschool Childcare 36 months to Kindergarten.

Our preschool program is an educational learning space that focuses on hands-on early childhood education for children before they begin compulsory education at elementary school.

Children are born to be explorers and discover the environment through play.

Nature Wanderers Childcare offers a daily schedule to children that is flexible enough to provide adaptability but structured enough to provide predictability for the children.

6:45 AM - 8:00 AM Early Bird Activities (children’s choice) and invitations to learn through play

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Open Breakfast (children’s choice)

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM Activities based on children’s interests and choice

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Morning Snack (children’s choice)

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM Circle time

9:20 AM - 11:30 AM Invitation to learn through play and free play (outdoors, weather permitting)

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Lunchtime

12:20 PM - 1:00 PM Rest and relaxing activities (reading time, sensory, nature discoveries and explorations)

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Invitation to learn through play and free play (outdoors, weather permitting)

3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Afternoon snack (children’s choice)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Invitation to learn through play and free play (outdoors, weather permitting)

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM Winding down and relaxing activities (children’s choice)

6:00 PM Program closed

Kindergarten to 12 years old

Nature Wanderers CChildcare offers a daily schedule to children that is flexible enough to provide adaptability but structured enough to provide predictability for the children.

Before School

6:45 AM - 8:00 AM Early Bird Activities (children’s choice) and invitations to learn through play

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM Open Breakfast (children’s choice)

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Winding down and getting ready for school departure

8:25 AM Departure to school

8:35 AM Classes start

After School for AM Kindergarten

11:40 PM, School dismissal / Children, pick up

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Lunchtime

12:20 PM - 1:00 PM Rest and relaxing activities (reading time, sensory, nature discoveries and explorations)

1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Invitation to learn through play and free play (outdoors, weather permitting)

After School (grade 1 & older)

3:35 PM - School dismissal / Children pick up

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Afternoon snack (children’s choice)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Invitation to learn through play and free play (outdoors, weather permitting)

5:00 PM – 5:45 PM Winding down and relaxing activities

(children’s choice)

6:00 PM Program closed

Fun & Creativity

Physical Development

Physical development experiences and activities are crucial in the early years.

Our Educators provide opportunities for young children to be active and interactive and to develop their coordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity and make healthy choices concerning food.

Nature Wanderers Childcare creates/chooses safe spaces outdoors/indoors for children to develop physically.
Young children, 3 to 12 years old children, are offered directed and free indoor/ outdoor small and large muscle activities and experiences; gardening, sand, and water play; blocks and manipulative play age appropriate. Young children who are not enrolled in school yet have the opportunity to participate in age-appropriate games while the age-school children are in school.
When all children are present, the games will be chosen very carefully to allow all children to engage if interested. Equipment and tools are selected accordingly.
We offer to our children, most importantly, that everyone needs encouragement, support, and co-player

Creative

Nature Wanderers Childcare believes that self-expression is a very important aspect of childhood development. We promote artistic expression, playful expression, and building expression.
Artistic expression is one of the best ways for children to express him/herself using open-ended arts/crafts activities, loose parts activities, dress-up, costume creating, and designing.
Playful expression is yet another way of helping children express him/herself. By playing with other children, through sports and other fun activities, we teach them cooperation, relationship skills, and even how to respect others.
‘Building Expression" is the building of objects. Things that require construction, such as dollhouses or model robots and cars, are all good ways of promoting children’s natural progression and creativity.

Language Art

Nature Wanderers Childcare supports Language art through invitations and creating environments and opportunities of self-expression:
When we play and work together, we have something in common to talk about. Thus, we promote children's disposition to learn through language-rich activities:

Story-telling

Creating stories

Reading

Debates

Singing

Tongue twisters

Riddles

Rhymes

Puppet play

Language games

Emotional

We encourage our children to express their feelings, empathy, self-concept, and self-worth.
In addition, we value and include multicultural activities where children learn and value their and others' backgrounds, celebrations, and heritage.
Our role as educators is to create opportunities for children's engagement and participation in a combination of small and large group activities or choose individual activities of their interest that fully support holistic play that supports and allows children to learn and practice their emotions. These opportunities include young children activities incorporated with older children that create various opportunities for younger children to learn from older and for older children to practice their skills as caregivers, co-learners, co-researchers, co-imaginers and leadership skills.

Intellectual Development

Nature Wanderers Childcare supports intellectual children's dispositions to learn through play.

Cognitive development is characterized by the way a child learns, acquires knowledge, and interacts with his surrounding environment. Different cognitive skills are acquired as a child meets certain developmental milestones, but a child of any ability will benefit from activities that promote active learning. As a parent, you can encourage your child’s cognitive development in the areas of memory, concentration, attention, and perception by incorporating simple activities into your everyday routine.

Here are ten easy ways we use on a daily basis to help children's cognitive development:
1. Nature detective

2. Identify Noises

3. Offer Choices

4. Ask Questions

5. Visit Interesting Places

6. Offer a Variety of Games

7. Brain teasers

8. Memory games

9. Sing-a-longs

10. Experiments

Outside Play

Nature Wanderers Childcare supports children's physical development by ensuring plenty of physical opportunities for all ages.
We create opportunities to be active and play together with our children.
Nature Wanderers Childcare exposes children to a variety of physical activities outdoors/indoors. We promote an active, healthy lifestyle by playing sports such as soccer, hockey, or basketball, yoga, climbing, hiking, biking, and sledding (weather permitting). We provide a variety of opportunities and different ways to be active for children to choose from for their enjoyment.

Invitations to learn & participate