FAQs

The registration packet includes the DHS required documentation of enrollment, full name, age, address, home, and work phone numbers, child release information, medical information, emergency contact information for at least two contacts, and a copy of the child's immunization records. When registering, please have this pertinent information ready.

Hours of Operation:  Monday – Friday 6AM-6PM 

Cornerstone will be closed for following Holidays

• New Year’s Day

• Labor Day 

• Memorial Day

• Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday) 

• Independence Day                                         

• Christmas Eve & Christmas Day 

If Holiday falls on Saturday we will be closed on Friday before the Holiday If Holiday falls on Sunday we will be closed on Monday after the Holiday

Cornerstone accepts Children from 6 weeks until entering Kindergarten.

Your child does not need to be toilet trained to be enrolled at Cornerstone. When you feel your child is ready for toilet training, we ask that you begin teaching at home. We will follow through and encourage your child while they are in our care. Daily communication between the parent and day care provider is very important. Children must be toilet trained before moving into the preschool classroom.

Staff members must be eighteen (18) years of age or older, hold a  high school diploma or GED. Teachers  who work directly with children shall also obtain at least fifteen (15) hours of training each year in continuing Early Childhood Education.

Please complete the registration form or call the center to register.  Once your registration form is reviewed you will be contacted with information about openings or waitlist.

• Birth – 18 months 1 Teacher to  5 Students.

• 18 months – 36 months 1 Teacher to  8 Students.

• 2 ½ – 3 years 1 Teacher to 12 Students.

• 4 years 1 Teachers to  15 Students.

• 5 years to Kindergarten 1 Teacher to 18 Students.

All caregivers are required to use “positive discipline” with each child. Positive discipline is an ongoing process of helping children to develop self-control for self-management while protecting and maintaining the integrity of the child.

When implementing “positive” discipline, all caregivers are required to do the following:

• The caregiver must communicate to children using positive statements.

• The caregiver will encourage children, with adult guidance and support, to use their own words and solutions in order to resolve their own interpersonal conflicts.

• The caregiver will communicate with children by getting down to their eye level, and talking to them in a calm, quiet manner about what behavior is expected.

• If the behavior problems persists, the caregiver will initiate one or both of the following steps:

  • The child may be redirected to another activity.

  • For children age three (3) and older, a “quiet-thinking time” may be initiated within the classroom area. Quiet-Thinking Time will never exceed one (1) minute per age of the child. After the child has had time to quietly think about the situation, the caregiver will engage in a positive conversation, including problem solving, with the child. The caregiver will warmly welcome the child back into the group, coupled with a “positive statement” about the expectations of the child.

Children with allergies or dietary restrictions will need to fill out an action control plan with the director and must be approved and signed by your physician.  Certain dietary restrictions may require you to provide meals for your child.

Yes, we would love to show you around our facility.  Please call the office or send in a contact form and we will gladly set up a time for you.

Classroom tables and counter surfaces will be cleaned and sanitized after each use and at the end of each day. Diaper Changing areas will be sanitized after each use and at the end of each day. Toys in infant classrooms that children have mouthed shall be sanitized before they are placed out for use again. Toys in all other areas will be cleaned and sanitized as needed and at least once weekly.