Description: Honeycomb Kids wants every child's first years to be filled with loving care-givers and endless opportunities for age appropriate exploration and experiences. These early years are important to lay a strong foundation for your child's brain to grow, develop a strong sense of self-worth, efficacy, and independence, as well as a healthy appetite for learning. Honeycomb Kids is a home away from home-a place where children feel safe, loved, part of an extended community of new friends, and a place where the expectations upon them are appropriate-play, have fun, explore and grow! We value play and moral development with the highest esteem. A homecare is such a unique environment that allows your child to receive individual attention and explore in a safe and unintimidating environment. The small group setting allows children to experience the importance and significance of friendships, and through our tight social circle, moral development is learned first-hand. Your child most likely will be in a formal school setting for the next 18 years; so give your child the opportunity to enjoy extended periods of time in nature and in a peaceful home environment as long as they can! Our curriculums are both nature-based and play-based, child centered, and are often developed according to the children's observed emerging interests. We strive to highlight ecology and the interdependent nature of all things, so young minds are continually stretching to accommodate and assimilate new information in a relevant context. The promotion of healthy habits, healthy sense of self, the importance of community, and being a responsible steward for the natural world are emphasized. Social, emotional, and moral development are aspects that are seamlessly integrated into all curriculums. Again, 0ur program is modeled after Waldorf approaches and is also fully aligned with and registered as a Lifeways Program. (check out LifwaysNorthAmerica.org). We love being outside- in all seasons, and this is a cornerstone of our program. At Honeycomb Kids, we believe in the development of the -whole-child-- and that means eating local and organic food, playing music, dancing, spending unstructured time in nature, being wild and crazy and being still and silent, helping to take care of others, and learning how to stand up for ones beliefs, plus some of the basic academic expectations around math, literacy, and science. We encourage the older children to think for themselves, learn how to make their own choices, follow through with their plans, and learn first-hand the importance of being an individual within the context of our larger group. Our goal is to nurture healthy, respectful, empathetic, aware, and intelligent children who will have all the tools and support to succeed in life as both strong individuals and community members. Honeycomb Kids is a mixed age environment, and this sets us apart from center-based childcare. The older children are teachers and role models for the younger ones. The younger children naturally look up to the older children, and it is important for them to see where they are heading developmentally. The older children get to practice care-taking for the younger ones, and as the younger children grow up, they will demonstrate the same love and kindness their older -classmates- showed them. It is so sweet when you see a 4 year old helping a 2 year old with a puzzle, or helping to put on a boot or zip a jacket. Confidence building and positive self-worth happen naturally in common place instances like these. We use positive guidance and behavior management techniques that are developmentally appropriate for your child and focus on creating an atmosphere of sympathy and empathy for their friends and the natural world.
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