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Each family has contracted hours that are somewhere between 7am & 5pm, Monday - Friday. Extended Care is for a fee if you need care beyond that time or longer than 9 hours per day. OPENINGS For full time openings, please email me what hours you need and I will get back to you if we have an opening. Please note that BBC enrolls no more than two children under the age of 3 years old at any one time. If those two spots are filled then, I can only add them to the wait list. At that time then, I can only take children 3-6 years of age. This is a preschool; I do not offer infant care. Thank you. School Age: I do not take new school age children. Children enrolled for preschool are allowed to stay when they move on to school. School age children that do not come weekly are considered drop in care on non school days. I can only take children up to my ratio. Please sign up for these days ahead of time or arrange for other care. I need to know by April 1st if you are planning to enroll your school age child in the summer care program here at BBC. School Bus: Jefferson, Johnsville and North Point all do not pick up nearby without special arrangements with the school's bus company. Extras bus fees to your child’s school may apply. Parents are responsible for all bus payments and arrangements. Once a child leaves the front door for school, BBC Preschool is not accountable for the child until they walk back through the door after school. Wait List: From time to time I will have a few families on my list, waiting for their child to be old enough to enroll or for me to have a certain number of spots open at the same time. We have a great group of children. The youngest is 2 and the oldest is 6 years old. (On non school days former students come back. There are a few kindergarteners that come back if there is an opening on those day and one first grader that is here for two months of the summer.) We have a wonderful bunch. I fill available full time spots pretty fast when I list them. Affordable home child care with my unique preschool program and strong sense of closeness in the BBC preschool family is something in high demand. If you are looking for the cheapest care, then Big Box of Crayons Family Preschool is not for your family.
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I give tours weekly when I have an opening. Please email me to set one up. I do not like to take calls during the day about tours. It takes away too much time from the children and I can't give detailed answers. Please call after 5pm. I schedule tours usually Monday or Wednesday evenings at 5:15 or 6pm. I do not tour alone in the house for safety reasons. Your child needs to come to the tour. This gives me an idea of what your child is like and is a way for them to explore the preschool a little bit on their own before meeting the full class during a preschool day. (Please call and reschedule if anyone in your family is sick at all or can't make it.) Please view this website (including PDF files below) and come with a list of questions for me. I am interviewing your family as much as you are interviewing me. Please do not get upset if I do not offer you a spot in our class. It doesn't mean there is anything "wrong" with your child or family. I am highly selective in finding just the right fit for the class at any given time. It has worked out beautifully when I have stuck to what I feel is best for the preschool. Please understand this is a family preschool. We do lots of free play time, but we have 1-2 circle times and a few daily lessons based on where your child is at academically. BBC has a pretty set schedule. We do change things, if it's best for the whole class. I do not change our schedule just for one child. If you do not feel your child can handle both "working" and playing, then this is not the place for you and there is nothing wrong with that. This is also true if you do not think you can keep up with our lesson plans. There are MANY excellent daycares and less involved preschool programs out there. Some do have a loose preschool program, if that is more what you are interested in. Others are more like mine, but could focus on other things. Some just allow the children to play all day and build up their social skills. Everyone is different and that allows you to be selective in your search as well. There is one that is just right for your family!!! If I do feel it might be a good fit and you agree, we can set up a second visit. Second visits are during the day between 9-11am for your child to come play with the class for an hour or two without their parents around. This way the children get an idea of what the class is like and I can see how the class blends with the current group of children enrolled. The cost is $10 per hour to do this 2nd tour. There are two papers you need to fill out and have here before your child can come during the day. Please fill it out like you were enrolling. This is a rule for licensing. I am very respectful of the children enrolled and their needs come first. I might have to ask you to come for a second tour from 8-10am or 3-4:30 to work around something already planned in our class. Thank you for understanding. After the second tour/visit, you can then pay the $25 enrollment fee and get your enrollment packet (most is online below). You are not enrolled until I have this packet back with a start date. If you wish to start more than one week after you pay the enrollment fee, there could be an extra fee involved to hold your spot. If more than one family wants to enroll, it always goes by who gets all of their paperwork and fees paid to me first. The other family will go on the wait list. All fees are non refundable, so please get your paperwork in on time. This is a business; I cannot hold spots for free while parents try to make up their minds. I understand your need to think it over. Please do not feel rushed. I just do not hold spots. Please read all of my policies in the parent handbook and more below and then email me if you wish to come in for a tour. I ask that you look at the whole website before your tour and to bring any questions you have written down. You think you will remember, but I have found that most parents do not when on the spot.
If you make an appointment to come in for a tour and then find other care or get busy, please call and cancel or move your appointment. I fully understand things come up or you found a great place that works for you. All I ask is that you call/email and let me know. It is very rude to make my family wait for dinner or evening plans for a tour that does not show up. If you get lost, are running late, or something comes up, please call and move your appointment. It might be a good idea to take my phone number or email address with you the day of the tour in case something comes up. I do not offer another tour for families that are no shows. The first two forms are what needs to be filled out before a child comes for a second tour.
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