MISSION
Magic Memories Daycare was established to provide your precious child a loving, caring, and positive stimulating environment. We provide a safe, healthy surrounding, well-balanced meals and a concerned staff, in a warm, trusting, home-like setting. Our mission is to provide the emotional security, self-esteem and social development of the children in our care, with a strong value system of respect, courtesy and love for one another.
PHILOSOPHY
“Playing should be fun! In our great eagerness to teach our children we studiously look for ‘educational’ toys, games with built-in lessons, books with a ‘message.’ Often these ‘tools’ are less interesting and stimulating than the child’s natural curiosity and playfulness. Play is by its very nature educational. And it should be pleasurable. When the fun goes out of play, most often so does the learning.” ~ Joanne E. Oppenheim (child development expert, author)
At Magic Memories Daycare we focus on children's interests, their developmental levels, their personalities or temperaments and their individual needs to provide important information.
According to proponents of the concept, play enables children to make sense of their world. Children possess a natural curiosity to explore and play acts as a medium to do so. The five elements of children’s play are that:
Play must be pleasurable and enjoyable.
Play must have no extrinsic goals; there is no prescribed learning that must occur.
Play is spontaneous and voluntary.
Play involves active engagement on the part of the player.
Play involves an element of make-believe.
The philosophy of our program is PLAY BASED, child-centered and developmentally based. It is based on the understanding that children learn through direct interactions with their environment and the people within it. An infant needs nurturing, warmth, security, laughter, and love…and all are in plentiful supply at Magical Memories Daycare.
Our walkers group abounds with energy and curiosity. With them, it is all about cause and effect! At Magical Memories Daycare, we greet these little movers enthusiastically with caring, experienced staff members, a proven routine, and a stimulating program that allows them to explore the world around them in a secure, fun, and loving environment!
In a safe, loving, respectful environment, children have the greatest opportunity to grow and develop. Such an environment should be the foundation of all childcare programs; however, I believe it is an educator's duty to go above and beyond safety, love and respect. We, as educators, should strive to create an environment that is fulfilling, enriching and supporting of all possible learning and growing opportunities.