Staff Handbook
The amount of time required to request a day off.
What is 24 hours?
At what temperature is a send home.
What is 101 degrees?
This grain component must be served at least once per day and meet whole-grain rich criteria.
What is a whole-grain rich item?
These weather events instantly turn seasoned childcare staff into excited kids again — especially when they’re unexpected.
What are snow days?
Holly and Lindsey have this type of radar?
What is an Ann radar?
This is the most ridiculous policy we have.
What is the finger nail policy?
A lead teacher needs to be in the room this percentage of the day.
What is 75% of the day?
These two components must be served at breakfast.
What are a fruit/vegetable and a grain?
These weather events instantly turn seasoned childcare staff into excited kids again — especially when they’re unexpected.
What is "No Thank You"?
This classroom song turns every child into a marching, stomping T-Rex the moment the music starts.
What is “We Are the Dinosaurs”?
This time must be pre-approved and accrues after working 40 hours per week.
What is overtime?
What is 15 minutes?
This is the only time juice can be served.
What is breakfast?
In this kids’ show, two sisters put on glasses, hunch over, and pretend to be “Grannies,” asking the very serious question: “Can Grannies do the floss?”
What is Bluey?
This common Vermont weather pattern describes when it rains, snows, gets sunny, and hails — all before lunch.
What is typical Vermont weather?
Employees receive xx (amount) days of paid holidays.
What is 13 days?
The hight of playground equipment cannot pass this amount (in inches) without padding.
What is 32 inches?
At lunch, providers must offer all of these five components.
What are milk, meat/meat alternate, grain, fruit, and vegetable?
This winter activity requires the speed of a NASCAR pit crew and at least eight arms, just like an octopus, to successfully get everyone ready.
What is getting the children dressed for outside in winter?
This online teacher has a magic ability to make an entire classroom go silent the moment her face appears on the screen.
Who is Miss Rachel?
This is the amount of days that full time employees receive in PTO annually.
Licensing requires the following when accepting medication.
Providers must offer this type of formula unless the parent chooses to supply their own.
What is iron-fortified infant formula?
This classroom activity somehow gets EVERY child excited — even if we’ve read the same book four times that day.
What is story time?
This activity is often believed by parents to be a one-day miracle, but actually requires patience, consistency, and approximately 47 pairs of extra underwear.
What is potty training?