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Child Care
and
Preschool

Welcome to Trinity Child Care and Preschool.  Our goal is to provide quality care that enhances your child's physical, emotional, spiritual, and developmental needs.  Each room in the Center is divided into learning opportunities designed to provide a variety of developmentally appropriate, and fun-filled age appropriate learning and play activities.  The daily schedule includes manipulative play, art, music, language and math development activities, science, outdoor play, creative play, and choice activities.  We invite you to visit your child anytime while they are in attendance.  Please feel free to talk to the Directors about anything that may enable us in helping your child have a marvelous experience.  The information provided on this web site is to inform you of our policies and procedures governing Trinity Child Care and Preschool and its various programs.  If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail us or contact the office at 910-488-6779.  The staff will be glad to assist you in any way.  We look forward to serving you and your family.
 
 

Monday - Friday                5:30 AM - 6:00 PM
                                          Office Hours 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Holidays Closed                New Years, 4th of July, Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday), and Christmas
                                        * If any holiday falls on the weekend, Trinity will opt to take Memorial Day, Labor Day,
                                         or an additional day following the holiday.
 
 

The education philosophy of Trinity Child Care is based upon learning through play.  The developmental needs of all children are addressed at all stages of their growth.  Fashioning stimulating play activities in the classroom, framed around a developmental program, sequentially assists the child in growing to his/her fullest potential.  The program is designed to meet each child's spiritual, emotional, social, cognitive, and physical need through a challenging curriculum, age appropriate equipment, teacher competency, and Christian values.  Nurturing the child with love and acceptance enables growth during each developmental stage.

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he shall not depart from it" (Proverb 22:6).  Teachers must have this vision for every child and be able to employ successful, proven strategies to accomplish the task.  A disciplined, structured environment creating a feeling of safety and security gives children, particularly in the early childhood years, the basis for success in later years.  Children will learn life's responsibilities through childhood situations in a planned play environment.  Providing this support to parents during the early childhood years gives the child the stability and success needed for perpetual learning and development.
 
 

Pre-3 programs for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos are specifically designed to enrich your child's first years.  Stimulating room environments for children demand appropriate equipment with high standards of design and functionality.  First-playthings enhance development of sensory awareness.

                                                                    Newborn Room            6 weeks/6months
                                                                    Pre-Toddler Room        7 months/13 months
                                                                    One Year Old Room     14 months/23 months
                                                                    Two Year Old Room     24 months

The four rooms designated as our Pre-3 areas, will give your young child a good beginning.  Brain development, personality development, and an abundance of language stimulation are all marks of achievements to these important months in the lives of little people.

Preschool enlarges your child's need to imitate and recreate their world, to understand it, and to find a positive place in it.  Play is not just an important part of the curriculum -- it is the curriculum!  Play is the way children process what they perceive. It is how children discover for themselves.

                                                                    Three Year Old Room
                                                                    Four Year Old Room
                                                                    Pre-K Fives - Kindergarten Readiness
 
 

Trinity provides transportation to and from many area elementary schools.  These schools are Alger B. Wilkins, College Lakes, Ferguson-Easley, Howard Hall, Long Hill, Lucile Souders, Warrenwood, Westarea, and W.T. Brown.  Students are provided with a nutritious breakfast each morning before going to school.  The vans leave the center at approximately 7:15 am each school day.  After school activities include snack, homework time, outside play, inside group activities, and many more fun activities for your school-age child to enjoy.  A new large outside playground area, complimented new state of the art playground equipment for appropriate age groups, awaits afterschoolers each day for their enjoyment.  Trinity afterschoolers have fun every  day of the week and sometimes do not want to leave the Center when their parents arrive for their departure!
 
 

Each summer Trinity offers a summer program for our school-age students.  As part of the program, students will explore basic academics in the morning.  The subjects covered are those which the students should have learned the previous school year.  This review is done to give the students extra practice and to help them retain the information during the summer months.  Another part of Trinity's summer program are the field trips and special guests who visit the center.  Each class goes on one field trip per week.  Field trips include swimming, bowling, duck feeding, hay rides, museums, and the movies.  Special guests include McGruff the Crime Dog, a dentist, and the Police K-9 Unit.  A favorite of our summer program students is splash day!  This event occurs when a local fire station comes to Trinity and sprays the students with their fire hose!  We also conduct a book fair for our students and parents to purchase many interesting and informative books.
 
 

Trinity does not offer part-time child care service.

Payment for all child care and preschool activities will be remitted in advance for the prior week of services provided by Trinity Child Care and Preschool.  In advance is relevant to Friday or Monday prior to the week of services rendered.  This method of payment is instead of being in arrears to the week completed.  Holidays, sick days, or otherwise, will not be subtracted from the regular five day week.  One free week per child, per calendar year of enrollment will be extended to parents for vacation purposes or other personal preferences.  The child cannot be in attendance any time during the free week.  Additionally, clients will not be eligible for "free weeks" until they have received at least four months of our consecutive services.  To parents of school-age children only participating in the before/after school program, there are no free weeks allotted.

**There will be a $5.00 per day late fee charge added to all delinquent accounts.**
**There will be a $25.00 fee on all return checks.**
**Parents arriving after 6:00 p.m. will be charged $4.00 per minute/per child.**
 
 

The center provides a scheduled rest period each day from 11:30 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. for Toddlers and Twos, and from
12:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. for Threes through Pre-K/Fives.  Children who do not sleep may have a quiet time through the use of equipment/activities that do not disturb others.
 
 

Trinity provides nutritious meals and snacks for all children in attendance.  Children will not be excluded from having a meal or snack.  Meals and snacks are planned in accordance with USDA Food Program requirements.  Parents with children unable to eat table food must provide their own baby food (unopened jars only)  and must have a minimum of three plastic bottles of formula when signed into the center.

Serving Times:
6:00 AM - 8:30 AM     Breakfast
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM  Lunch
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM      Snack

NUTRITION POLICIES

Childhood is a time when eating habits and behaviors are molded.  Because eating habits are formed during early childhood years, our goal is to teach children about healthy eating.  Preschool children are learning every minute they are awake.  As a child care provider, we have provided both formal and informal opportunities to help children learn to eat mannerly.  Children learn their eating habits from the foods they are served, by observing others, and from the attitudes and behaviors of the adults in their lives.  The best way to educate these young children is by example:  letting them observe the child care staff properly eating healthy food we offer to the children daily.

Family style dining in the classroom is offered at our center.  The children have a very relaxed medium to interact at mealtime, which allows for positive training about food, manners and health.  The children also learn how to wash their hands, brush their teeth, clean tables and preparation surfaces, and how to safely store food.  Self-help skills are also introduced such as pouring, proper use of utensils, and neatness.

Because meals and snacks are provided throughout the day, informal opportunities abound.  Tasting parties as well as "play" with food is a part of the preschool child's learning experience.

Informed families can support and reinforce good nutrition practices at home.  Our center encourages moms and dads to occasionally come for lunch with their child.
 
 

Trinity Child Care provides several opportunities for our parents to participate with their child in fun activities.  During each holiday, we have specific events for parent involvement.  To name a few:  Turkeys on Parade, Easter Egg Hunt, Harvest Festival, Valentine Party, Green Day, Easter Bonnet Contest, Mother's Day Lunch, and Donuts for Dads.

Each child's teacher will notify the parents concerning the events in writing.  If the parents wish to participate, the teacher will provide all the information and answer any questions they may have concerning the event.  We encourage all parents to help in these Fun Activities.  In addition, there are special summer events for all age groups.
 
 

We DO:
1.    praise, reward, and encourage the children.
2.    reason with and set limits for the children.
3.    model appropriate behavior for the children.
4.    modify the classroom environment to attempt to prevent problems before they occur.
5.    listen to the children.
6.    provide alternatives for inappropriate behavior to the children.
7.    provide the children with natural and logical consequences of their behaviors.
8.    treat the children as people and respect their needs, desires, and feelings.
9.    ignore minor misbehaviors.
10.  explain things to children on their levels.
11.  use short supervised periods of "time out."
12.  stay consistent in our behavior management program.

We DO NOT:
1.    spank, shake, bite, pinch, push, pull, slap, or otherwise physically punish the children.
2.    make fun of, yell at, threaten, make sarcastic remarks about, use profanity, or otherwise verbally abuse the
       children.
3.    shame or punish the children when bathroom accidents occur.
4.    deny food or rest as punishment.
5.    relate discipline to eating, resting, or sleeping.
6.    leave the children alone, unattended, or without supervision.
7.    place the children in locked rooms, closets, or boxes as punishment.
8.    allow discipline of children by children.
9.    criticize, make fun of, or otherwise belittle children's parents, families, or ethnic groups.

1.   All enrollment paperwork for your child must be completed and turned into the office.  Office personnel will
      escort you and your child to class on the first day.

2.   All clothing or items belonging to your child must have his/her name on them, i.e. hats, coats, sweaters, and
bookbags.

3.   Breakfast is served from 6:30 am to 8:30 am for child care children and from 6:30 am to 7:30 am for school
      age children. A monthly lunch menu is provided for your convenience.  In addition, an afternoon snack is
      served between 2:00 pm and 3:30 pm.

4.   We encourage you to send along a backpack or bookbag each day for any craft or worksheet papers your child
      will complete daily.

5.   If you have an infant, remember to bring your bottles prepared.  The child care recommends that if you have a
      newborn, please bring 4 oz. bottles.  Once a bottle is heated, what the child does not finish will be discarded.
      Don't forget the diapers and wipes!!!

6.   Transportation is provided by the center for our before and after school age children ONLY.  No transportation
      is provided for children from home to and from the center.

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