WHAT WE OFFER
Experienced staff
Low child-to-staff ratios
Developmentally appropriate learning activities
Kindergarten readiness skills

OUR CURRICULUM
A curriculum is a plan for learning. Our program includes a hands-on approach to learning where the child develops independence, self-confidence, and the ability to make decisions by featuring many hands-on activities and learning centers.

At Nebraska Children’s Home Society’s Child Care Program, children learn basic concepts that will prepare them for kindergarten and life in general. We provide an open and understanding environment using a discovery approach to teaching and learning. Children develop a positive self-image and experience personal success in social and cognitive learning situations.

WORK TIME
During work time children are actively working with learning centers where they develop cognitive and fine motor skills throughout the five components of the Montessori Curriculum:
practical life
sensorial
language
mathematics
science/culture

Children learn to make decisions during work time as they decide what work they will do and when their work is finished. Returning their work to the center teaches them to take care of their environment. This concept puts the children in charge, makes them responsible, and builds their self-esteem. All centers have a specific educational concept, and have extensions that increase in difficulty as the child progresses.

KINDERGARTEN READINESS
All kindergarten readiness skills are introduced including letters, numbers, colors, & shapes, and are advanced during work time, as the child is ready to progress. Detailed lesson plans are provided by the teachers and are used during the morning and afternoon group experiences called line time. During line time the teacher discusses the daily topic, sings songs and reads literature.

MULTI-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT
We feel that addressing multi-cultural issues are very important. Each person is unique and special and we strive to recognize and implement multiculturalism into our program in a variety of ways. We provide teaching of simple sign-language and basic Spanish beginning with toddler age. We also provide art supplies that represent the multi colors of skin and visual representations of real pictures of people who depict the diversity in the world today.

Children also learn about different cultures through their classroom work. Introductions to all the continents of the world, environments, plants, animals, smells, textures, and geography are a part of fundamentals that are available to the children everyday.

TO LEARN MORE...,
For more information or to set up a tour call: (402) 898-7760