Childcare

The after school childcare program at Trinity Lutheran Early Childhood Center is designed to provide a loving and nurturing care experience. We endeavor to create a climate that reflects the love of Jesus. Through the childcare leaders, children will come into contact with warm, loving, accepting adults who take an active interest in the child’s needs. Children learn and experience the Christian faith through planned activities.

Children in our childcare program will be exposed to the same learning centers and areas utilized in our preschool program. Children will be given opportunities to express themselves through a wide variety of experiences: games, art, play materials, role-play, large motor activities, singing, and rhythmic response to music. Activities will be in the context of fun and will not frustrate the child's need to achieve.

We reinforce the desirable social and behavioral traits of the child and discourage the undesirable traits. Aggressive feelings will be channeled into acceptable forms. Behavioral guidance will be given in a measure appropriate to the child's level of maturity. This will also focus upon building social and communication skills. Discipline always will be in the context of love and a balance of firmness and freedom. This will be directed toward the development of inner discipline and problem-solving skills so that the child may learn to consider the needs of others.