Programs
Our Comprehensive Childcare Programs
Watch your child flourish with our expert care. Our dedicated team provides a stimulating and supportive learning environment that promotes social, emotional, and cognitive development.
Let’s grow together! Contact us today to learn more about our programs and how we can support your child’s development.
- Language Rich Environment – Language development is promoted through the caregiver use of simple words while keeping a balance between listening and talking with the child. The classroom provides an environment rich with age-appropriate books, interesting pictures and photos to talk about and label.
- Dramatic Play – Children imitate their environment and develop vocabulary while playing side by side with peers.
- Music and Movement – Children enjoy singing, dancing, and playing instruments.
- Blocks – Children learn about math, science, and spatial relationships as they build their own masterpieces.
- Art Time – Children take pride in their artistic accomplishments while exploring with paint, markers, glue, scissors, crayons, clay, and tissue paper.
- Meal Times – Children understand that meal time is a relaxing time to talk with friends. Teachers use this time to discuss healthy lifestyle habits.
- Physical Play – Children cannot wait to exercise and move, whether inside or outside, making their bodies healthy and strong while climbing, running, and jumping.
- Sensory Play – Children love to explore through touch. They learn about measurement, cause and effect, objects and actions, as they manipulate difference sizes and textures of items.
- Story Time – Children explore rhythm, rhyme, and story elements while developing a love of reading!
- Social and Emotional Teachings – Teachers model appropriate interactions between children. Special teaching is given to help children learn how to sooth themselves when they are excited, frustrated, or upset. Through continual teaching children begin to show awareness and respond appropriately to the feelings of others.
- Math Time – Children learn about numbers and counting. They complete simple puzzles and demonstrate understanding of measurement concepts such as big/little, short/tall, heavy/light.
- Nap Time – Children enjoy a calm and restful time to unwind while snuggling with a favorite blanket brought from home and listening to relaxing music.
Through This Program, Toddlers:
- Develop Singing Skills
- Develop a Steady Beat
- Develop Listening and Attention Skills
- Develop Gross-Motor Skills
- Practice Turn Taking
- Exploring Instrument Sounds
- Develop Fine Motor Control
- Learn Relaxation Techniques
- Establish Rituals
Younger Infant Classroom
Our infant room is a calm inviting environment where your infant can relax, learn, and explore. Teachers work on building nurturing relationships with each infant through gentle approaches and actions. Caregivers give eye contact and smile while interacting.. Sensitivity to the needs of the infant are shown with physical attention, verbal and physical acknowledgement, and quick response to emotional needs. Kind calm voices are used during feeding times and when the infant is preparing for sleep.
During playtime the teachers get down on the floor with the children and interact in a playful fun way allowing the children to make their own decisions about choosing a toy or book. As our little ones explore the classrooms the trained teachers verbalize what the child is doing thereby increasing the infant’s receptive vocabulary. Our infants enjoy playing together. At times it seems they are carrying on their own conversations which is a delight to watch. As infants start to stand, cruise, and walk they are transitioned into our older infant classroom.
We understand that the parents are the first teachers of each child. Maintaining a friendly open dialogue with each family allows us to provide continuity of care between the home and the center.
Older Infant Classroom
When infants transition into the older infant classroom, our eager and curious learners gain knowledge and understanding of themselves and the world around them from every experience.
Older Infants learn from:
- Story Time
- Music and Movement Activities
- Coloring and Art Time
- Using Blocks and Building Materials
- Playing with Baby Dolls and Soft Toys
- Climbing and Crawling
- Experiencing Sensory Activities
- Playing Outside
- Using Simple Sign Language
Nutrition
GRSG participates in the Child and Adult Food Program for the State of Nebraska and follow structured nutritional guidelines for the breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack.
To learn more about the Child and Adult Food Program for the state of Nebraska click here.
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We offer high fiber, whole grain foods at least 2 times a day
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We offer fruit to children at least 2 times a day
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We make drinking water freely available so children can serve themselves
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We serve only skim milk to children age 2 or older
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We do not have soda or vending machines on site
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We have a 5 week menu cycle and allow for seasonal changes
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Our menus include food grow in our own garden
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Our staff gently and positively encourage children to try a new or less favorite food
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We provide visible support promoting healthy eating in classrooms and common areas through the use of posters, pictures, displayed
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books, games, and toys
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Our staff often talk informally with children about trying and enjoying healthy foods
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We provide training opportunities for staff on nutrition at least 2 times per year
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We offer nutrition education to families
Healthy Habits
Children at Get Ready Set Grow Childcare learn about healthy habits by being taught proper hand washing techniques. They enjoy brushing their teeth and learning about how to be healthy and strong.
Physical Play
Children at GRSG have opportunities for physical play every day. We have 3 age appropriate playgrounds. Our playgrounds have centers for physical play, reading time, art time, sensory time, and musical play. If we are unable to play outside we have physical play inside with balls, parachutes, bean bags, and dance. Research shows that active physical play keeps children healthy and allows them to listen and attend to learning better.
Gardening
We are very proud of our garden area here at Get Ready Set Grow. We know our early learners benefit from learning where food comes from and delight in watching the plants grow. Even our youngest children are involved in the process of planting the seeds, weeding the garden, watering the plants, and picking the produce. They are able to eat the fruit of their labors and take extreme pride in what we have grown.
Our meals often involve food picked directly from our garden. The children enjoy picking the plants, washing, them and then helping to prepare the food for lunch or snack. We often have produce left over so that children may take home items and help their parents prepare food for dinner.
Gardening also allows us to do math and science experiments with the children. We weigh and measure vegetables. We graph how our plants are growing.
We bake with the children using our produce to make our treats healthier. They make a delicious zucchini bread.
We made a sunflower maze that the children could walk through and have many different types of flowers.
We even use items from our garden to create art projects.