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Ready, Set, Grow Childcare and Learning Center offers an extensive daily program. In our center, the Mother Goose Curriculum offers hands-on activities that develop the social, cognitive and physical needs of each child. The curriculum stimulates thinking, while allowing each child creativity and mastering developmental skills.
 
Daily lesson plans are successfully followed, so that each child becomes familiar with the daily routine at Ready, Set, Grow! Lesson plans are carefully developed by the head teacher, and each level teacher modifies those plans based on the skills and ages of the child. The program at Ready, Set, Grow is child-centered to foster and promote cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.

The proprietor is a member of NAEYC - National Association for the Education of Young Children - http://www.naeyc.org/ and a strong member of the Delaware Valley chapter DVAEYC - http://www.dvaeyc.org/ .

We are one large center with multiple childcare areas, so we focus on a bright and clean environment that fosters and promotes a child-centered curriculum. The curriculum we use is the Mother Goose Preschool Curriculum - http://www.mothergoosetime.com/

The proprietor and director have Master's Degrees in Early Childhood Education as well as certified in the state of Pennsylvania. Between the two, they hold five certificates in the state and each have over 12 years of teaching experience.

Hours of Operation are from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The following is a typical day at Ready, Set, Grow Childcare and Learning Center. The schedule may adjust according to the arrival/dismissal time of each child and/or scheduled planned activities or trips.

A typical day at Ready, Set, Grow:

 6:30 - 8:30: Morning arrival and breakfast
 8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast cleanup: Creative expression time
 9:00 - 10:00: Circle Time: Morning Songs, Calendar and Story Reading/Mother Goose Curriculum
 10:00 - 10:45:  Morning Snack
 10:45 - 11:15 Outside play-Weather Permitting - OR - Creative Art
 11:15 - 12:00 Structured Learning Time/Mother Goose Curriculum
 12:00 - 12:30   Lunch and clean-up
 12:30 - 2:30 Naptime
 2:30 - 2:45 Clean-Up/Bathroom use
 2:45 - 3:00 Afternoon snack
            Activity time centered around current theme
 3:00 - 3:45 Outside play-Weather Permitting - OR - Free play
 3:45 - 4:45 Structured Learning Time/Mother Goose Curriculum
 4:45 - 5:45 Creative Expression and Imaginative Play time
 5:45 - 6:30 Preparation for pick up

Two meals and two snacks are provided daily. Each meal includes fruit and/or vegetable with 100% fruit juice and/or milk. A Sample menu is below: