Welcome to Ethennonnhawahstihnen Childcare Centre!

Ethennonnhawahstihnen Childcare Centre is a non-profit, licensed childcare provider situated within the Ethennonnhawahstihnen Community Recreation Centre. We are licensed by the Ministry of Community and Social Services and have a Service Contract with Toronto Children’s Services, which enables us to offer subsidized childcare to qualifying families.

Our program is grounded in the provincially recognized pedagogical framework for early childhood education: How Does Learning Happen? (HDLH). This approach informs our belief that every child has tremendous potential and deserves enriching experiences each day that nurture their growth and development.

Programs

Toddlers and Preschoolers

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Opening hours

7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

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Programs & Fees

Infant (6 weeks to 18 months)

Class capacity
10 infants

Ratio
1 educator for 3 children

The class is supervised by 3 educators, at least 2 of them are qualified or recognized. In addition, all our staff hold first aid certification and have undergone a criminal background check.

Fees: Base Rate & CWELLE

Toddlers (18 months to 30 months)

Class capacity
10 toddlers

Ratio
1 educator for 5 children

The class is supervised by 2 educators, at least 1 of them are qualified or recognized. In addition, all our staff hold first aid certification and have undergone a criminal background check.

    Areas of Development:

    Toddlers learn best in the context of relationships within small groups. In toddler classrooms, our small groups allow very young children to make connections, relationships, and learn to understand other children.

    As toddlers strive for independence, our educators create a program that supports each child’s individuality.  The important learning outcomes in our toddler program are language development, socialization, self-help skills, and the development of fine motor and eye/hand coordination.

    Language development is promoted throughout daily conversation with educators, using labels or through repetition of their emerging vocabulary. This all contributes to toddlers becoming confident learners.

    Music and Movement

    We have a physical education and movement program for children six and under.  This program provides a fun, safe and non-competitive environment to develop physical skills while nurturing a life-long love for active play.  It includes multiple gross motor movements, balance and more.

    Fees: Base Rate & CWELLE

    Preschool (2.5 years to 4 years)

    Class capacity
    16 preschoolers

    Ratio
    1 educator for 8 children

    The class is supervised by 2 educators, at least 1 of them are qualified or recognized. In addition, all our staff hold first aid certification and have undergone a criminal background check.

      Areas of Development

      Two year old children examine everything they see, hear, feel and observe in an attempt to make sense of the world around them. In our preschool programs, our educators interact, observe and interpret the interests of preschool children to encourage further discoveries by planning activities and investigations that expand your child’s learning.

      Our preschool program offers foundational skills in a progressive and fun environment. The preschool program focuses on structure and developing autonomy, with an emphasis on cognitive learning; including number and letter recognition introduced through puzzles, games and our pre-literacy reading and writing program.

      Our preschool program provides a foundation for developing greater independence, problem-solving, integrating new concepts into their world view and incorporates elements to promote sharing and mutual respect. Our trained educators help children to understand routines, which simultaneously allows them to feel competent and confident in their current preschool classrooms and prepares them for kindergarten.

      Reading and Writing

      Our reading and writing program stimulate children to learn the alphabet, while significantly improving their Phonological awareness. The program is designed on the principles of multi-sensory learning and consists of four main styles of learning: visual (looking at the letter), auditory (listening to the letter sound), kinesthetic (sky writing the letter), and tactile (printing the letter on a sensory tray like sandpaper).  The program is based on thorough early educational research on phonics instruction and phonological awareness skills.

       

      Fees: Base Rate & CWELLE

      Educational Programs

      Ethennonnhawahstihnen Childcare Centre adheres to the Ontario government’s educational program entitled “Comment apprend-on” as well as le JEU.