KKLC: More than just a Daycare
Our Programs
Our Values
Here at the KKLC, we believe that learning is not simply a process of adults giving children directions or information to memorize. We believe in active learning where children learn through interactive play. With age-appropriate materials, high quality teachers, ongoing assessments, conscious discipline practices, considerable classroom space, and an evidence-based curriculum we provide an environment conducive to achieving the process of thinking and building their own understanding of their learning experiences.
Partnerships
Our Daily Routine
Gathering at the message board is a large-group activity that generally takes place once everyone has arrived. This is a time to share announcements and let children know about things that are happening that day or that are coming up soon.
The teacher reads aloud age-appropriate books and other materials, print or digital, including sets of texts that are thematically and conceptually related and texts that are read multiple times.
This sequence of activities involves planning, work, and recall where the children in engage in a plan of action during the planning process. Working Time: Children immediately begin what they have chosen to do with appropriate materials and people, and continue until they have completed their plans or changed them. Work time encourages children to focus attentively on both play and problem-solving. Recalling: children meet with the same person and small group of children with whom they planned in order to share and discuss what they have done during work time. Recall lasts about 10 to 15 minutes, depending on how much detail children share. Adults listen carefully and converse with children about their work-time experiences. Other children may also ask questions or make comments. Recalling helps children reflect on, understand, and build on their actions.
This 15-20 minute time period is when children experiment with materials and solve problems in an activity adults have chosen for a particular purpose. Small groups of 5 to 7 children and one adult meet to experiment with materials, pursue an expressed interest, or use materials to solve a problem. They gather in a regular location ? on the floor, outdoors, or around a table ? but may then move as a group depending on the planned activity.
Large-group time typically lasts 10 to 15 minutes, builds a sense of community for children. Children and adults come together for singing, movement, and music activities, storytelling, and reenactments of familiar stories and meaningful events. While adults initiate many large-group experiences and maintain a fairly rapid sequence of events, children initiate countless variations as well as offer new ideas.
This time of day is designed for vigorous, noisy, physical play. Children and adults spend at least 30 to 40 minutes outside once or twice a day. Without the restraint of four walls, many children feel free to talk, move, and explore. Adults join in children’s play, converse with them, and assist with pushes and pull as needed. Outside time enables children to play together, invent their own games and rules, and become familiar with their natural surroundings. It also enables adults to observe and interact with children in what for many children is a very comfortable and stimulus-rich setting.
Our priority is to make sure that your children are safe while playing or studying at the center, and therefore, we implement innovative methodology for our educational activities and encourage our staff to develop their skills.
- Promoters of sustainability, and authentic living.
- Ever-evolving
- Equity for all children
- Strength in community
- Evidence based practice
- Administrators as coaches, teachers as leaders, and parents as partners
What Parents Say
My daughter is on her second year at this school, and we couldn’t love it more! They are extremely caring and great with children! Shout to Ms. Stephanie and Mr. Bryan! We love you guys!!!
My first child has been with this daycare since she was two years old. She’s now in kindergarten. I can’t say enough positive things about this facility and the staff. They treat my daughter as if she was their own. The facility is spacious, clean and always smells like delicious food, which they cook fresh daily for the children. My daughter also passed her kindergarten entrance test with flying colors. They truly prepare them for school with their teaching. My second daughter has been with them since she was six months old and this is where she will stay until kindergarten because of the love, care and learning they receive. We love Kreative Kids.
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FAQ's
Childcare is a regulated and licensed early learning option for families. As a facility of such high standard, we consider childcare an early learning opportunity for families that are in need of this essential service.
High-quality early learning classrooms are joyful places where children actively move about, explore materials, interact with others, laugh, sing, and dance. Because a preschool classroom is structured differently from a classroom for older children, some mistakenly assume that preschool children are not learning anything important. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young children learn through play, and for that reason, quality early learning classrooms are strategically designed to engage children in purposeful play, encouraging them to be active participants in their own learning.
Unfortunately, respect by the general public for a career in education is not very high, let alone early childhood education. Teachers, are people who chose to embrace a calling greater than society’s view and salary. Somewhere along the establishment of education, categories and labels were created to measure value. If you were a math and science teacher, you were smarter than a social studies teacher. If you were a highschool teacher, you are more qualified than an elementary school teacher, so on and so forth. Early childhood is a field growing and developing, still very young in it’s science, it maintains the stigma of not teaching. This could not be farther from the truth. Early childhood educators are in fact teachers, ranging from bachelor’s degrees, associate degrees, child development credentials, and continued annual professional eductional trainings.
No one is more ready for learning than young children. While the brain continues to grow throughout the human lifespan, the most rapid brain development occurs in the first few years of life. In fact, young children grow over a million neural connections every second, faster than at any other time in their lives. After age five, brain growth slows and existing neural connections become hardwired into the brain, serving as the foundational mortar upon which all other learning will be built. The brain is a highly integrated and complex organ, and the strength of the brain’s foundation affects learning, behavior, and health throughout life. One way to help ensure young children develop strong brain architecture is through high-quality early learning before the age of five.
KKLC: more than just a Daycare
If you’re looking for the best children’s care center that offers a range of services, KKLC is the right choice for you. We provide high-quality daycare and childcare services for children in Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Canton, Westland, and Inkster. Our experienced staff are committed to creating a safe, nurturing environment where children can learn, play, and grow. In addition to our daycare services, we also offer mental and behavioral health services, early learning programs, and ABA therapy to help children with special needs. At KKLC, we understand that every child is unique, which is why we tailor our services to meet their individual needs. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help your child thrive.
I love this place! I've had my daughter there since May and she loves it. I see improvement in her daily behavior, I learn new things from her, and I appreciate the passion I see from teachers. Their potty-training program is a lifesaver. We worked together to train her and it only took 2 weeks. They were patient, clean, and very helpful. I can always tell by her mood if she had fun and wants to go back. She is always ready to go the next day! I recommend this place and I like the continuous improvements I see.