About Us | Smith Family Daycare

About Myself

Hello, everyone, my name is Alisa Smith. I have been married for thirty-four years and have two wonderful children: thirty-two and twenty-four. I started doing child care twenty-nine years ago. I am so glad and thankful I made that choice.I gave up my career as a Dental Assistant and became a Child Care Provider to be closer to my children. I have worked very hard in making a beautiful and stimulating atmosphere for my day care children. Child care has been very rewarding and I enjoy every moment I spend with the kids. I love teaching them and giving them the very best. I provide a lot of one-on-one attention.My entire classroom is set up to enhance learning. I have put a tremendous amount of attention into creating the most loving Child Care home available, from the toys to the chairs. Much heart was put into it all. I would want no less for my child care kids. Most of the toys I have purchased are from Lakeshore Learning. The quality and attention to learning is unsurpassed.

My Goal

As a Child care provider, my goal is to provide your child with a safe, warm, loving and nurturing home-away-from home and to provide you with peace of mind. I offer a fun and energetic environment where your child can learn, laugh and grow each day.

A curriculum is used to insure that every day is a learning experience for your child and not just an extended playtime. Daily preschool activities include: ABC's, 123's, colors, shapes, circle time, weather, singing, story time and more.

The children are offered more then the standard type of children's songs. They enjoy listening to: opera, classical Impressionist music, as well as classic children songs. My children are not offered television. Once a month we enjoy a movie day that includes popcorn and snacks. Alongside birthdays and holidays, we have parties for any and every reason just because we can and it's a lot of fun.

I am committed to working within each child's comfort zone to ensure optimal social, emotional and educational results. I love teaching the children the basic skills preparing them for school. I never expect or force them to do more than they are ready to do. The bond and true loving connection I build with my children lasts forever. They all know that Mrs. Alisa loves them and will always treat them like family. Everything in my child care is personal. Long lasting friendships are encouraged with memories they will never lose of good times with friends.

I offer care for ages 17 months and older. Because of the teaching aspect of what I offer, I will not go any younger than 17 months old. This allows for a more consistent atmosphere of learning and play within one age group.

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Curriculum

For my preschoolers and pre-kindergarten children, I use what I consider to be the very best curriculum out there: ABEKA. The Abeka curriculum is used in many private schools. Abeka nursery books help my preschoolers with their listening skills, following directions, and practicing hand-eye coordination. They also learn how to recognize and write numbers 1-50. The four year old kindergarten books help my pre-K kids with phonics instruction. They learn and review vowel and consonant sounds, blends, one and two vowel words, words with special sounds, and sentence comprehension. They also learn simple addition and subtraction combinations, number words. Children love the activities and because of the balance between learning and fun they always look forward to doing them. That is what makes it a step above the rest. I also use other resources from time to time.