Programs & Curriculum

INFANT FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES: AGES BIRTH/ZERO (0) TO FIFTEEN (15) MONTHS OF AGE

Younger Infants: Ages Birth/Zero (0) to Eight (8) Months of Age
Older Infants: Six (6) to Fifteen (15) Months of Age

INFANT FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES AT CAMILLA’S PLACE FAMILY CHILDCARE, LLC (CPFC)

Infant care has to do more than look right, it has to feel right. Parent[s]/Legal guardian[s], Caregiver[s], and family member[s] want to know that their child is safe and well cared for. Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC) infant program is designed to offer a secure place with knowledgeable early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators who honor each individual child’s and family’s routine, as well as know and recognize each and every day that they’re not caring for just any child, but that they are caring for the most important child, your child.

INDIVIDUALIZED FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES FOR YOUR INFANT

Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC’s (CPFC’s) effective, high-quality, and research-based program and welcoming environment has been carefully designed by our knowledgeable early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators to support all of your infant’s exciting developmental milestones.
Infant Family Childcare Program Service Highlights:

• An assigned primary early childhood education and family childcare staff member, provider, and educator for one-to-one moments of caring, play, and communication.
• Individualized and personalized family childcare program service plans to support daily schedules, nutritional guidelines, and other unique needs.
• Sensory-rich spaces and soft places to explore, roll over, pull up, crawl, etc.
• Safety, security, and cleanliness policies, practices, and procedures that meet or exceed all applicable local, state, and federal rules, laws, regulations, and guidelines.

INFANT FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICE SIGNATURE PRACTICES

Our Opening the World to Learning (OWL)® curriculum includes six (6) infant family childcare program service signature practices that encourage exploration and discovery to stimulate early learning:

• Prime Times: One-on-one interactions to build nurturing relationships in everyday moments.
• Daily Reading: Age-appropriate books to support listening, vocabulary, and a love of reading.
• Art Activities: Finger painting, music, and pretend play to spark creativity.
• Sign Language: Basic signs, such as "more” and "please,” to communicate basic needs and build language development.
• Treasure Baskets: Natural and everyday objects to encourage exploration and entice curiosity.
• Outdoor Discovery: Time outside to explore nature and inspire motor and sensory development in a new environment.

TODDLER FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES: AGES TWELVE (12) TO THIRTY-THREE (33) MONTHS OF AGE

Younger Toddlers: Twelve (12) to Twenty-Four (24) Months of Age
Older Toddlers: Twenty-Two (22) to Thirty-Three (33) Months of Age

TODDLER FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES AT CAMILLA’S PLACE FAMILY CHILDCARE, LLC (CPFC)

Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC’s (CPFC’s) toddler program is designed to give parent[s]/legal guardian[s], caregiver[s], and family member[s] the confident and secure feeling that their child is in a safe place where they can learn new skills, practice newly acquired skills, wonder about anything and everything, and discover how to make friends. All alongside early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators who know and recognize each and every day that they’re not caring for just any child, but that they are caring for the most important child, your child.

INDIVIDUALIZED FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES FOR YOUR TODDLER

Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC) toddler program is rooted in what research says is best for early learning, as children make developmental leaps and build skills for the future.

Toddler Family Childcare Program Service Highlights:

• Support for newfound independence, language, and social skills.
• A focus on individual growth and making choices.
• Learning centers and small groups that encourage language, literacy, fine motor, math, art, dramatic play, science, and outdoor skills learning and practice.
• A relaxed environment that fosters individual development, self-help, and self-regulation skills.
• Safety, security, and cleanliness policies, practices, and procedures that meet or exceed all applicable local, state, and federal rules, laws, regulations, and guidelines.

TODDLER FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICE SIGNATURE PRACTICES

Our Opening the World to Learning (OWL)® curriculum includes seven (7) toddler family childcare program service signature practices that make learning an adventure and inspire individual development:

• Prime Times: One-on-one interactions to build relationships and important social skills.
• Language Development: Conversation[s] to encourage thinking, speaking, and comprehension.
• Sensory Experiences: Materials and media to ignite all senses.
• Centers & Small Group Learning: Activities to maximize prime times, encourage choice making in play, and minimize overstimulation.
• Self-Regulation & Self-Help Skills: Direct instruction, encouragement, and multiple opportunities to practice identifying, understanding, and regulating/managing feelings, emotions, reactions, and behavior[s] and daily tasks and routines at each child’s own pace.
• Cause and Effect: Direct instruction, encouragement, and multiple opportunities to learn and practice the scientific method, by asking questions, experimenting, searching for and finding answers to questions, and testing results
• Outdoor Experiences: Time outside to introduce new sights, sounds, smells, and textures, as well as develop fine and gross motor skills.

PRESCHOOL FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES: AGES THIRTY-SIX (36) TO FOURTY-EIGHT MONTHS OF AGE

Younger Preschoolers (PRE-K-3): Thirty-Six (36) to Forty-Seven (47) Months of Age
Older Preschoolers (PRE-K-4): Forty-Eight (48) to Fifty-Nine Months of Age

PRESCHOOL FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES AT CAMILLA’S PLACE FAMILY CHILDCARE, LLC (CPFC)

Preschool is a big year for young children and their families. Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC) early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators have designed our preschool program to give parent[s]/legal guardian[s], caregiver[s], and family member[s] the complete confidence in every aspect of their child’s experience[s], ranging from health and safety, to ready-for-school curriculum, to the full support of experienced staff members, providers, and educators. Just as important, CPFC preschool program is based on what research says best prepares children for kindergarten…and all the big steps that lay ahead.

INDIVIDUALIZED FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES FOR YOUR PRESCHOOLER

Preschool Family Childcare Program Service Highlights:

• Independent, staff member, provider, and educator- directed, and small-group activities that encourage curiosity, investigation, exploration, and discovery.
• Learning approaches that adapt to each child and incorporate their strengths, needs, preferences, and interests.
• Curriculum that supports creative expression, literacy, music, the arts, and more.
• Confidence-building opportunities to solve problems and make decisions.
• Science Technology Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning that encourages future-forward skills.
• Safety, security, and cleanliness policies, practices, and procedures that meet or exceed all applicable local, state, and federal rules, laws, regulations, and guidelines.
• Growing Readers: Ready to read creates joyful reading experiences that help children begin their reading journey by making sense of written messages, recognizing letters and sounds, and more.

PRESCHOOL FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICE SIGNATURE PRACTICES

Our Opening the World to Learning (OWL)® curriculum includes seven (7) preschool family childcare program service signature practices that offer hands-on approaches to encourage the skills your child will need in kindergarten and beyond:

• Everyday Mathematics®: Integrating numbers into real-life routines.
• Cooking with Recipes: Creating in the kitchen to learn about counting, measuring, and fractions.
• Daily Pre-Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking: Stories and literature to promote the understanding of the relationship between speech and print.
• Writing Center: Access to a wide variety of writing tools, paper, and other materials to inspire an interest in reading, writing, creating books, and more.
• Science Laboratory: Hands-on opportunities to collect, examine, explore, and experiment with natural materials.
• STEM Activities: Building and problem-solving using science, technology, engineering, and math.
• Woodworking: Real tools and materials to tinker, construct, and explore weight, balance, strength, and texture with.

PREKINDERGARTEN PREPERATION FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES: AGES

Younger Pre-Kindergartners: Sixty (60) to Seventy-One Months of Age (Three (3) Years of Age)
Older Prekindergartners: Seventy-Two (72) to Eighty-Four (84) Months of Age (Five (5) to Seven (7) Years of Age

The last year before kindergarten is a time of enormous and exciting growth. As a parent/legal guardian, caregiver, and/or family member of prekindergartner, you want your child to enjoy this stage of life as much as possible while building the right skills for the great steps that lay ahead. Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC)’s prekindergarten preparation program provides parent[s]/legal guardian[s], caregiver[s], and family member[s] both, early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators who cherish this important time, and an effective evidenced-based prekindergarten curriculum that is recognized by parent[s]/legal guardian[s], caregiver[s], family member[s], staff members, providers, and educators for helping children build the social and academic skills necessary to be ready for school.

INDIVIDUALIZED FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICES FOR YOUR PRE-KINDERGARTENER

Our research-based prekindergarten preparation program has been carefully designed to meet each individual child’s unique strengths, needs , and weaknesses while effectively preparing them for elementary school.

Prekindergarten Preparation Family Childcare Program Service Highlights:

• Early childhood education and family childcare staff members, providers, and educators who encourage children to reach all age appropriate developmental and academic milestones.
• Creative, hands-on, and project-based learning.
• Support for core pre-academic skills, including literacy, mathematical reasoning, and scientific investigation.
• Multiple and diverse learning and practice activities and opportunities that ensure children thrive across all areas of development.
• Focus on the understanding of teamwork and positive self-image.
• Safety, security, and cleanliness policies, practices, and procedures that meet or exceed all applicable local, state, and federal rules, laws, regulations, and guidelines.
• Growing Readers: Ready to Read provides beginning reading knowledge and skills that sets children up for a lifelong love of reading by building skills, such as understanding familiar words within their environment and world and retelling their favorite stories and books.

PREKINDERGARTEN PREPERATION FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICE SIGNATURE PRACTICES

Our Opening the World to Learning (OWL)® curriculum includes five (5) pre-kindergarten family childcare program service signature practices that inspire critical thinking and build on the skills children need for success in kindergarten and beyond:

• Daily Experience Sheets: Child-completed accounts of the day’s activities to develop writing skills.
• Word Rings: A set of individualized "words I know” cards to encourage word and letter recognition.
• Rotating Math Stations: Hands-on materials to practice sequencing, graphing, and estimation.
• Science Fair: A project showcase to get children excited about science and what they’ve learned.
• Journal Writing: Opportunities to communicate thoughts and ideas about language, science, and math-related organizational skills by writing them down on paper.

FAMILY CHILDCARE PROGRAM SERVICE DAYS & HOURS OF OPERATION:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:00 AM-5:00 PM	8:00 AM-5:00 PM	8:00 AM-5:00 PM	8:00 AM-5:00 PM	8:00 AM-5:00 PM

 

Child and Adult Care Food Program Participating Family Childcare Program (CACFP) Service Provider

What is the Child and Adult Care Food Program?
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a federally-funded program from the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). In Massachusetts (MA), the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MA DESE) administers the CACFP. The CACFP provides supplemental reimbursement to participating organizations for the provision of nutritious foods. All meals and snacks served must meet federal guidelines and be offered at no separate cost to participants.

Family Childcare Program Service Providers: Family childcare program service providers deliver early childhood education and family childcare program services within an approved and licensed private residence for a small group of children. In order for a family childcare program service providers to participate within the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) must work directly with a sponsoring organization that maintains Federal and State regulations and prepares a monthly food reimbursement claim.

Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC) has partnered and is working with Yours for Children Incorporated (YFCI). YFCI was initially established in 1985, YFCI is a nonprofit Massachusetts (MA) sponsor of the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP). YFCI reimburses family childcare program service providers for the nutritious meals and snacks that they serve children in their care. YFCI monitors family childcare program service providers participation within the CACFP by reviewing the family childcare program service setting periodically. YFCI monitors, gives individualized trainings, observes meals and snacks, and interacts directly with family childcare program service providers through planned, nutrition related activities. YFCI provides licensed family childcare program service providers with nutrition, food safety, and sanitation training.

Participating family childcare program service providers serve well-balanced, nutrient dense meals to infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-aged children. Participation within the CACFP enhances the quality of services provided within the family childcare program service setting.

Camilla’s Place Family Childcare, LLC (CPFC) provides all enrolled child program participants’ whose families have chosen to have them enroll and participate within the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP the following snack and meals each day:

• Breakfast
• Morning Snack
• Lunch
• Afternoon Snack