Great Expectations Child Care
3022 Calgary Trail NW T6J 6V4 Edmonton, AB, Canada

Spring cleaning is even more fun with friends around! When you adopt a strong, resourceful, capable image of the child you respond to children’s disposition to learn within children’s everyday play and social interactions. (Flight, p. 46) Participating and Persisting Participating with others, observing what others are doing, shared understanding or for turns. Each child participating with materials and ideas and others is mighty learner.... Persisting with challenges and difficulty with ideals and with others. Each child persisting with new strategies, by asking for help when needed or trying again another day, is a mighty learner.

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All for the love of animals Meet our little explorers! Play Exploration and Problem Solving - Using all their senses, children explore the physical and social worlds around them. In the process they refine their senses, test their personal capacities, and construct knowledge about people, places, and things. At play, children learn to make their thinking visible, build theories about how the world works, and practice skills and dispositions for inquiry, negotiation, and problem solving. (Flight, p. 100)

Diversity and Social Responsibility Democratic Practices - Children grow in the understanding of their roles as responsible citizens as they participate daily in communities where their voices are heard and their contributions valued, and where they learn to value the contributions of others. Learning requires that educators assure children equitable opportunities and fair procedures and processes, while participating in the making, following, questioning and re-working of rules, rituals, and procedures in their everyday world. (Flight, 2014, p. 112)

Play and Playfulness - Imagination and Creativity Through play, children invent symbols to explore relations of power, truth, and beauty as they move between the world as it is and the world’s they create. Learning to be imaginative and creative requires open and flexible environments, rich in materials and role models that reflect the cultural life of their communities. (Flight, 2014, p. 99)

Let’s meet our Community Helpers Wannabes Children’s life-long health, well-being, learning, and behaviour are strongly connected to their early childhood experience. (Flight, 2014, p.28)