Our Mission

My mission is to provide quality childcare for children and families in the Roxbury, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and in the surrounding areas of Boston. My learning program exists to provide infants, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners and school-age children with a warm, loving environment where they can feel safe, secure and happy.

Curriculum in JD Family Day Care

Curriculum involves what children do each day and throughout the day. Children naturally observe, question, and participate in what goes on around them. Children need educators to be a positive role model and a supportive individual who provides guidance and quality experiences throughout each day.

Educators can help children and guide them toward completing routine activities independently. These activities include getting dressed, daily hygiene such as washing face and hands, toileting, cleaning up, and helping with snack and meal times. Children can also help establish basic rules and consequences such as; "Be nice to others." These simple actions help children to develop cognitive skills (including problem-solving skills), enhance self-esteem and a sense of belonging, build language skills, and help children develop both fine and gross motor skills.

Reading Corner

Developing vocabulary about size, shape, and position. Using language to communicate with others during play. Children learn language by listening, observing, asking questions, and responding to others. Children can follow simple, one-step directions at younger ages. You can add more “steps” as children grow.

Art Expositions

Exploring basic science concepts of balance, shape, size, proportions, weight, reversibility, conservation, and gravity, blocks (fall down), developing prediction and comparison skills, exploring basic math concepts such as larger than, smaller than, measuring, counting, grouping, adding, subtracting, sizing, classifying, sorting, developing problem-solving skills and creativity and imagination.

Dramatic Play Area

Social Development: Cooperating, sharing, developing patience and self-confidence.

Emotional Development: Gaining self-confidence to try ideas, express feelings during role-playing, and feeling a sense of accomplishment and success.

Gross Motor Play

Strengthening fingers and hands as well as large muscles by reaching, picking up, stacking, lifting, carrying, fitting together, and increasing eye-hand coordination.