We proudly provide a small, family friendly atmosphere at one and only one location. Day by Day is licensed for 60 children ( 12 infants, 14 toddlers, 14 older toddlers/young preschoolers, and 20 older preschoolers/Prekindergarten ) through both the Minnesota Department of Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Health.
Because we are a locally owned and family operated early childhood development center, our overhead is lower than other child and day care facilities, allowing us to offer competitive rates for the same quality care. We offer flexible full and part-time schedules to meet you and your families needs. Drop-in care is available for those families that are registered and available on a space available basis.
Our structure and setting allows us the ability to offer individualized attention and care with the flexibility to follow each child's individual schedule that may not be available from other larger child and day care providers.
Ours is a service built on trust and we do everything possible to deserve that trust. We have an open door policy and encourage parents to visit as often as possible. We are what we do! Come and see us in action anytime.
At Day by Day Child Development Center, all classrooms follow a structured weekly theme/curriculum that incorporates age appropriate and culturally aware activities that include letter and number recognition, language arts, fine and gross motor skills, art, music and movement, sensory, books, dramatic play, and science. Our structured teacher created curriculum offers classroom experiences that develop self-control, cooperation and communication skills yet still allows for flexibility amongst each individual child's needs. The skills taught in each classroom build upon prior experiences to enable the child to meet age appropriate developmental milestones. In both the Daffodils and Cosmos classrooms, our preschool and Prekindergarten curriculum follows the guidelines of Kindergarten Readiness as oulined by ISD 196.
Our Kindergarten Readiness Program is designed to develop the necessary skills as well as builds on the development of social, emotional, and motor skills to ensure that each child that graduates from our program is ready for the challenges they will face in Kindergarten and beyond. Kindergarten Readiness skills specifically include alphabet recognition of upper and lower case letters, letter sounds, writing, and all the necessary pre-reading skills,. Number recognition, counting, writing, and basic math skills are also taught. The Kindergarten Readiness program stresses the importance of problem solving skills to help each child develop and master the necessary self-help skills necessary to be successful in life.
In all classrooms, activities teach and reinforce the ideas of respect, responsibility, and accountability amongst oneself, friends, parents, teachers, and property. These include both teacher lead structured and child lead unstructured activities that focus on intellectual thinking, individual and cooperative play; development of social, emotional, self-help, and problem solving skills; utilizing sensory, science, blocks, manipulatives, books, music and dramatic play activities.