Child Care

AGES
Children 12 months to 12 years old

HOURS OF OPERATION
Monday - Friday 6:00 am to 1:00 am
Saturday 8:00 am to 1:00 am

ENROLLMENT

To enroll your child, please visit our center for a tour, orientation, and enrollment forms.

From Roots To Wings
Early Childhood Development Center
306 SW 146th St.
Burien, WA 98166
(206) 246-7544

KEY BENEFITS

We are a state licensed program.
We keep our staff to child ratios within the limits, which are as follows: The 12mo-2yr old is 1:7, the 3-4yr old is 1:10, and the 5-12 yr old is 1:15 we have a capacity for 71 children.
Meals provided: breakfast, AM snack, lunch, and a PM snack.
Our center is divided up into classes as follows: toddler one class, toddler two class, preschool one class, preschool two class, and school-age one and two.
Daily Education with Preschool Program.
School Breaks & Summer Vacation Programs & Activities

DAILY ACTIVITIES

Staff plans, prepares and implements daily activities planned to support the developmental needs and interest of the children. The understanding of cultural relevancy and anti-bias curriculum is an important part of the program. Training is provided to help staff learn how to plan developmentally appropriate and culturally relevant activities.

The Daily Schedule
A daily schedule might go like this:

Quiet Activities: Free selection of puzzles, string beads, book, peg boards, parquetry blocks, legos, etc.
Aerobic Exercise: Locomotion plays a large role in motor and skills development and including activities moving the body through space- walking, running hopping, jumping, rolling, dancing climbing, and leaping.
Circle Time: Children and teacher plan together and talk about the day ahead. This is also the time for announcements, sharing and group songs, finger plays, etc/.
Bathroom & Hand Washing: Before any activity, in which food is handled, prepared or eaten, children should wash their hands.
Snacks: After center activities, a snack is usually served. It should be nutritionally sound, and something that they can handle themselves.
Outdoor Activity Play/Walk: Ideally, outside play should be a time for learning new concepts and skills of climbing, jumping, swimming, throwing and body control. Many walks can be incorporated into play.
Bathroom: Bathroom time provides a chance to teach health, self-help and intrapersonal skills. Children should also be able to use the bathroom whenever necessary.
Lunch: Lunch should be a relaxing time, and the meal should be served family style,with staff and children eating together. Children should set their own table and decorate them with placements and flowers. Children should also be involved in clean up after meals and snacks.
Relaxation: After lunch, children should have a chance to relax; perhaps to stories, records and music.
Nap Time: Children who want to or need to should have a chance to rest or sleep. For those who don't need it or can't sleep on a particular day, quiet activities should be available.
Bathroom
Center Activities/Special Projects: Following nap time is a good time for center activities or special projects. Special projects might be cooking, holidays, collecting, work projects, crafts, field trips, play dough, making a group mural, painting, or dictating a story to a teacher.
Group Time: Time to get together to clean up and review the day. This serves the purpose of developing and attention skills.

Breaks & Summer Vacations

During breaks and summer vacations, we offer a summer program for school age children (5-12).
The days are filled with field trips to parks, zoos, museums, aquariums, overnights, etc.
The children are offered a wide range of activities varying from art projects, group games, cooking projects, gardening, etc. It also offers the children a summer of new experiences and educational memories.