Rooms & Numbers
This room serves children ages 18 to 23 months and can hold 15 children
What is Room 6?
This core value creates a sense of security for families by ensuring their children are safe and loved.
What is Trust?
This area of development includes thinking skills, memory, attention, and problem-solving.
What is Cognitive Development?
The center begins welcoming children and families at this time each morning.
What is 6:00 a.m.?
Children need to learn about what is safe, what is allowed or not allowed, and why. They need help learning to organize their time and energy.
What are Boundaries and Learning?
This room serves infants from 6 weeks to 12 months and has a capacity of 4.
What is Room 1?
Because Jesus is at the center of all we do, this core value commits us to providing the highest quality of care.
What is Excellence?
Play nurtures creativity, imagination, and innovation. Children explore new ideas, engage in artistic expression (like drawing, painting, or building), and experiment with different ways of solving problems or approaching tasks.
What is Creative Development?
Children participate in this amount of outdoor or gym time during both the morning and afternoon.
What is 30 minutes?
A visual schedule is strongly encouraged. This will guide your lesson planning and give the children a sense of safety because they can anticipate what is happening next throughout the day.
What is Consistency?
his classroom serves children ages 4 to 5 years and has the highest capacity in the center.
What is Room 10?
This core value focuses on helping children, Mission Partners, and families grow in their love and knowledge of God.
What is Faith?
Through play, children learn to interact, share, negotiate, and resolve conflicts while developing empathy, cooperation, and communication skills.
What is Social/Emotional Development?
When is Nap/Rest Time?
What is 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Example: What you expect them to do when they enter your classroom
What are Rituals?
These two rooms serve children ages 24 months to 3 years with a 1:8 ratio and a capacity of 16 each.
What are Rooms 4 and 9?
We share this core value through our love, acceptance, and care of the children, reflecting the happiness found in Christ.
What is Joy?
Through touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, children develop their senses and gain an understanding of how their bodies interact with the world around them.
What is Sensory Development?
The center closes its doors for the day at this time.
What is 5:30 p.m.?
"Turning your face, and sometimes body, away or leaving the room when the child is engaging in minor misbehavior in order to withdraw your attention,”
What is Planned or active ignoring?
Four rooms share a 1:4 ratio and serve infants; together they have this total capacity.
What is 32 children? (Rooms 1, 2, 3, and 5)
This value is demonstrated when sisters, Mission Partners, and families work together to create an environment of growth and learning.
What is Unity?
We cultivate each child's love and knowledge of God in a joyful, faith-filled environment. Through daily prayers, Bible stories, and faith-based lessons, we create a Catholic atmosphere where they experience His love.
What is Spiritual Development
Children can spend up to this many hours at the center between opening and closing.
What is 11½ hours?
Example, if a child is non-compliant with clean-up time, give them choices that you are okay with. “Do you want to pick up the legos or the blocks?” Now the child feels in control of the situation because they have options
What is Distraction and Redirection?