TLC Traditions
Children and their families attend this informative event every August before the first week of school.
What is Back-to-School Night?
If a family member brings a snack for the class to share, it must be in this kind of packaging.
What is the original packaging, with label and ingredients listed?
This screening tool is used with all students within 60 days of enrollment and is administered annually to monitor a child's progress.
What is the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ)?
This person has served on TLC's staff longer than any other current employee.
Who is Mia Girard?
This medical guidance document helps families determine if their child should stay home or return to school following an illness.
What is How Sick is Too Sick?
This student-led family event allows children to showcase their learning spaces for their families.
What is Open House Night?
This activity is prohibited during snack or meal times to encourage healthy eating habits and social interactions.
What is screentime?
Physical therapists often like to join classrooms for these two curriculum tools that foster movement, balance and coordination, and self-regulation.
TLC has had lived in this many locations over the years.
What is 10? Our new building will be #11!
This plan is referred to when a child requires medicine to be dispensed or other healthcare assistance.
What is a Individual Healthcare Plan (signed by the physician)?
Scheduled throughout the year, these meetings are designed to support families with tools and strategies to foster their child’s development at home. Topics are based on family survey results that are collected each September.
What are Family Toolkit Nights?
At TLC, infant teachers are required to check on sleeping babies at this frequency to ensure their safety and comfort.
What is every five minutes?
This assessment tool and benchmark guide is used in classrooms to set goals, assess learning outcomes, and track children's progress across various developmental areas.
What is Teaching Strategies Gold?
What is our Diversity Statement?
**New verbiage regarding inclusive classroom materials has also been added to the curriculum portion of the family handbook.
This is the appointment that families must make with their family care provider on a regular basis and report back to TLC with an updated health appraisal.
What is a well-child check?
This unique classroom model, officially adopted by TLC in 1989, offers children of all abilities and backgrounds a chance to grow, play, and learn alongside one another in a nurturing, developmentally appropriate environment.
What is inclusion?
Weather permitting, children will have this many minutes of outdoor play each day.
What is 60 minutes?
This name was given to more accurately reflect the bi-annual meetings between teachers, therapists, and families that serve to share student progress and keep communication pathways open.
What are Child Progress Conferences?
This TLC alum, and enthusiastic Christmas Tree Festival attendee, was installed as TLC's first and only Mayor of the Christmas Tree Festival in 2024.
Who is Troy Peterson?
Any one of these symptoms would require a child to be sent home as soon as possible. Name three.
What are:
diarrhea
fever over 100.4
vomiting
purulent conjunctivitis (pink eye)
pediculosis (lice)
pertussis (whooping cough)?
TLC was founded on volunteerism by four Longmont families 69 years ago. This TLC tradition continues today as families are required to complete this amount of volunteer hours annually.
What is 25 volunteer hours per family?
For a special prize, name one possible volunteer opportunity available to families.
During meal and snack times, children should be encouraged to engage in conversation and to express independence. To help foster this, teachers are asked to do this.
When a child exhibits challenging behaviors, TLC does not use punishment; instead, classroom teams work together to create this.
What is a supportive plan between the classroom and home.
TLC was created by four Longmont families this many years before special education legislation was first enacted.
What is 19 years?
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the federal law that supports special education and related service programming for children and youth with disabilities. It was originally known as the Education of Handicapped Children Act, passed in 1975. WE ARE TRAILBLAZERS!!!
All children are required to have this before attending classes at TLC.
What is an up-to-date immunization record?