Preschool Program

Our Toddler / Pre-school program:

• provides a fun, educational, and developmentally appropriate environment for children ages 22 months to 5 years.
• Staff work together to thoughtfully plan and implement daily activities based on the interests of the children (framed within our philosophy).
• The children learn and build friendships within a play based environment. While learning through play, the children are able to independently choose from a variety of Learning Centre activities: art, music, science, sensory exploration, dramatic play, block building, language and literature, math, large motor, and small motor activities.

Our Learning Environment

To best get an idea of a child's experience with Dreams, and to answer some of your questions, please check out the following links:

• Our Early Childhood Education Learning Centres
• Our Early Childhood Education Philosophy
• Our Dreams Menu
• Our Hours, Fees, and Location

Early Learning Framework

We program based on the Early Years Framework, which broadly fits within these four cornerstones:

1. Well-Being

A sense of well-being is important for all human beings in all facets of their lives. A sense of well being results from the satisfaction of having basic needs met - for physical needs such as the needs for warmth, hunger, and physical safety. But well being also means that the human needs for tenderness, affection, and recognition from others are provided for.
Early Learning Framework

2. Exploration and Discovery

Children have a natural curiousity about their world. Using all their senses, children explore sounds, colours, shapes, and patterns. The science of early childhood development tells us that from birth to three years old, children's brains are up to three times as actve as the adult brain. And, during the first six years of life, children continue to form new neural pathways which become strengthened through continued sensory experiences and social interactions.
Early Learning Framework

3. Expression and Communication

There is overwhelming evidence to emphasize the importance of language -- in all its forms -- as a foundation of all facets of human development and learning. In the early years, children begin to develop attitudes and skills in the use of oral language -- words, phrases, and narrative shories -- and in written communication. These attitudes and skills are foundational to life-long success in learning.
Early Learning Framework

4. Social and Personal Responsibility

As young children move through toddler to preschool years, they develop an awareness of their family and eventually their sphere of awareness expands to include their communities. Children who participate in programs in Early Years Centres develop a sense of fairness and equity as members of the group. They learn to understand and treasure diversity, and appreciate their own and others' talents and limitations.
Early Learning Framework

Communication with Parents

As another means of ongoing communication with parents/caregivers, staff regularly post photos on Facebook (with parent/caregivers permission). Often when a child is asked what did you do today by their parent/caregiver, the child often may say “I don’t know” or “I played”. Now you will be able to talk to your child about the specific things you noticed on Facebook.