Family Child Care Curriculum Teaching Through Quality Care

A successful family child care (daycare) program promotes the healthy development of infants, toddlers, and preschool children in a caring, nurturing environment. Enrich your program and support children's early learning with best practices and activities designed specifically for family child care professionals.

Family Child Care Curriculum includes a wealth of creative and inclusive activities that meet age-appropriate developmental objectives. Activities are organized both by age and developmental domainand#151;physical and motor, cognitive, communication and language, and social and emotionaland#151;and complement the overall goals of a quality family child care program. These activities can be used with multiage groups of children and are easily implemented in your daily routine. This complete curriculum also includes

Four developmental milestone charts describing typical development from birth through age five

Tips to provide quality learning environments and twenty-nine evaluation questions to improve your program

Suggestions to create successful partnerships with families

Additional resources to help you develop a well-rounded program, including safety information and daily schedules

This hands-on resource and activity book provides guidance and best practices for creating curriculum that is appropriate for mixed age groups in home-based child care settings. It reflects the reality of family child care providers' needs, settings, and resources.