Happy Times Learning Center

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DE 4 Stars Family Child Care and Preschool Level II License No. 451847

February 8, 2013 by happytimeslearning

Enrolling Now Montessori Preschool and Kindergarten

Open House every Tuesday and Wednesday

Call today to schedule a tour of our facility

Phone 302-834-2357

Email happytimeslc@gmail.com

Location: Conveniently located in Brennan Estates Development off 896 Bear

Welcome Friends!

Happy Times Learning Center DE Star level 4 (HTLC) is a small, home-based school with all the bells and whistles of the larger centers. We are small enough to offer our children a personal touch. At HTLC, children are not a number or a quota. We at HTLC are just like a big family.

HTLC is a Montessori inspired learning program. We believe that to achieve well rounded development, we should provide the children a home-like environment that helps in bringing out a child’s potential by giving him or her hands-on

This child is counting numbers and matching numbers through Montessori way of teaching

experience with materials specially designed to stimulate learning.

These are some of the main objectives of Our Program:

Academic Readiness – Children learn through hands-on experiences; they don’tjust watch someone else demonstrate an activity or listen to a teacher explain a concept. They actually work the problem out with their own hands. Children are encouraged by the hands-on environment to pursue their own learning intentions.

Independence – Children, with guidance, choose to work independently or in asmall group, and return the materials when completed.

Motivation comes from within the individual child. The child’s own curiosity and interest drives them toward competence. Children learn to correct their own work. Successes are far more numerous than failures.

Intrinsic Motivation – Children learn to pursue learning for the pure pleasure of it, rather than for short-term, arbitrary goals. Children initiate their own work and continue with it until the task has been completed.

Sand and water play

Respect – Children learn to embrace rules that reflect a sense of respect for others and authority. At HTLC, children spontaneously seek growth and development. It is in their nature to do so, and the HTLC approach respects this and exploits it to the child’s benefit.

Citizenship – Children acquire the qualities to become “citizens of the world “and through civic virtue come to understand and cherish the world they live in. Our vision is of a world that can finally live in peace.

Mission Statement:

The Mission of HTLC is to inspire a passion for excellence, to nurture the curiosity, creativity, and imagination born within us all, to awaken the human spirit of every child, and to promote respect for ourselves, for others and for our environment.

We pledge to do this through nurturing and by:

*Having a home like setting that will empower the child within a safe environment for risk-taking, growth, and learning.

*Teaching respect of oneself, cultivation of honesty, integrity and sense of responsibility.

*Loving environment for the child that encourages the discipline of learning and mastery of one’s innate curiosity.

* Caring and friendly interactions with peers as well as teachers, and providing an atmosphere that enhances the qualities of empathy,compassion, kindness, and peacefulness. The child develops a sense of concern for others, warmth, and love for the world community.