Safe and Friendly Childcare in Effingham, IL

​​Infant Class

​​Ages: 6 Weeks-10 Months

Our infant room holds a maximum of eight children. The ratio in the classroom is 1:4. Every child is assigned a “primary caregiver” — this person builds a close, caring relationship with your child, feeding, changing, and comforting as needed. In the infant room, the child is the curriculum. The staff works on the development of each child according to their needs in language, fine and gross motor, feeding, diapering, sleeping, and social-emotional growth.

Wobbler Class

​​Ages: 6-15 Months

Our larger room is used for older mobile infants. Primary caregivers are assigned depending on how the attachments form in the classroom. Our developmental checklist guides the teachers in planning the curriculum. Children are introduced to chairs with trays low to the ground, cots for naps for older infants, and art once a week. Children continue to grow in all developmental areas. Our Wobbler room has twelve students with three teachers.

Toddler Class

​​Ages: 15-30 Months

At this age, your child will grow in language, fine and gross motor, and social and emotional skills through daily experiences in the classroom. Art and sensory activities are added daily at this age. Weekly themes with projects, play, and music help our little ones develop through hands-on experiences. Three teachers maintain a ratio of 1:5 with no more than 15 children in the room.

Two Year Old Class

​​Ages: 24-36 Months

The 2-year-old classroom is all about growing independence! Our staff works diligently with parents to assist with potty training. By three, all children must be potty trained to move up to the preschool classroom. In our two’s classroom, we begin with letters, numbers, colors, and shapes along with continued language development, social-emotional skills, and fine and gross motor skills throughout the daily routines and interactions. We have three staff with a maximum of 16 students.

Preschool 1, Preschool 2, & Preschool 3

All preschool classes provide preschool Monday through Friday, 8:00-11:00 AM. By meeting the needs of individual children and setting age-appropriate goals, children will learn at their own pace and be motivated and challenged to learn. Children will practice social skills: cooperation, listening, sharing, taking turns, and following directions. They will be introduced to large and small muscle skills and creative expression through dramatic play, music, art, colors, shapes, body parts, and numbers 1-20.

Pre-Kindergarten Class

The pre-kindergarten curriculum is a thematic curriculum, and the theme is applied throughout the day in all the subject areas. We cover a different theme each month. We tie the theme into the letter of the week, shape and color of the month, as well as in math, science, social studies, music, and art.

Math skills are taught through hands-on activities with bears, unifix blocks, pattern blocks, tangrams, and more. Your child will also learn sorting, matching, graphing, patterning, counting, one-to-one correspondence, comparisons, and measurement.
We will also teach your child letters, sounds, rhyming, syllables, compound words, initial and ending sounds, as well as blending sounds to form words.

We also emphasize social-emotional skills that your child needs for success in school.
Your child will also have assistance in developing fine and gross motor skills, colors, shapes, letters, and numbers.

We teach language and reading skills along with writing.

Art and the expressive arts are included daily for self-expression and creativity.
The Bible curriculum teaches Bible stories as well as Christian morals and values. This also involves learning lots of songs and prayers.