JJC Early Childhood Center
Main Campus: B-1001
Beverly Cavanaugh
Early Childhood Center Coordinator
Phone: (815) 280-2280
Email: bcavanau@jjc.edu

Hours:
Monday - Friday: 6:30am to 5:00pm
(Fall and Spring Semesters)

Daily Schedule and Menu

Children creating art projects

In order to assure proper tracking of attendance, parents are responsible for using the ProCare automated attendance tracking system to log their child in and out each day.

General Procedures

  1. Logging In and Out

    When you arrive at the Center log in using the 4 digit ProCare number assigned to you at registration. ProCare procedures are carefully covered during the new parent orientation sessions. If you have any questions about ProCare or the tracking system please ask your child's teacher or the Center coordinator for assistance.

  2. Breakfast

    If your child is scheduled between 6:30am - 7:00am they are automatically included in the breakfast program. Children who are not scheduled for breakfast but arrive during the morning hours before 10:00am will be served a mid-morning snack.

  3. Lunch

    Lunch is automatically ordered for children if they are scheduled during lunch hours. If your child is not scheduled for lunch and you request lunch to be added on to your child's normal schedule, you will be charged $2.50. Also, parents who would like to schedule a lunch with their child may do so with advance notice and a charge of $2.50 will be added to the following billing cycle.

  4. Classroom Attendance

    Please assist your child in the arrival rituals of the day. Help them hang their belongings in the appropriate classroom cubbies, wash their hands and walk them carefully to their classroom teacher before you say good bye. Teachers will sign the child in on classroom attendance sheets that will later be compared to the ProCare tracking system for accuracy.

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Daily Schedule

6:30am - 7:00am

Center opens, breakfast.

7:30am - 8:45am

Additional staff arrives and children split into classrooms and activities begin.

8:45am - 9:00am

Clean up and bathroom break.

9:00am - 9:15am

Sharing circle. Teacher will share activities that are available for exploration, and introduces new areas and activities for the day.

9:15am - 9:30am

Self-serve snacks with teacher supervision.

9:15am - 11:30am

Children play and learn through extended exploration and discovery with teacher guided activities and interest centers (download curriculum or pick one up). Daily outdoor play and activities when weather permits.

11:30am - 11:50am

Transition time, group activity in individual classrooms and preparation for lunch.

11:50am - 12:50pm

Lunch is served. Teachers and staff do not conduct business during lunch.

12:50pm - 1:20pm

Prepare for nap. Large group activity. If your child will be leaving us after lunch, please collect all their belongings and check the communication folder quietly while we prepare the other children for their daily resting period.

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Nap time. Children rest on individual cots with sheets and blankets provided by the Center. Teachers supervise the area at all times and soothing music plays softly in a reduced light environment.

3:00pm - 3:30 pm

Transition time. Children help put away their cots and blankets and participate in a self-serve snack.

3:30pm - 4:45pm

Free choice activity centers. Child selected or teacher supported activities are available as children prepare for departure.

4:45pm - 5:00pm

Children participate in closing rituals and prepare for parent pick up.

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