Day Care

The Galveston Island Child Development Center provides a stimulating, supportive, focused environment that is geared toward meeting children's individual developmental needs. The curricula and activities have been carefully selected and enhanced to create positive programming that supports the educational, social, physical and emotional growth of each child. The classrooms are specifically designed to develop and support each child's learning exploration and experience.

Brightly colored rooms are filled with child size furniture, friendly, inviting play and rest areas, creative materials, toys and enticing educational activities. The classroom schedules provide a balance of quiet/active, individual/small group, self directed/teacher directed, indoor/outdoor activities to enrich each child's day. Well trained, friendly, caring teachers carefully design weekly/monthly lesson plans that are built around each child's needs. Nutritious snacks, well balance hot meals, and transportation to and from school are included in monthly tuition/fees.

The following nationally recognized curricula have been carefully selected to provide each child with well rounded, developmentally appropriate, learning experiences.

• Infants through Two years
  Addison Wesley Active Learning Series
• Three Year Olds
  The Scholastic Early Childhood Workshop
• Four Year Olds
  Addison Wesley Active Learning Series and SRA Language
  
• Kindergarten
  SRA Reading, Language and Math and
  Addison Wesley Active Learning Series
  
• Three Years thru School Age:
  The Creative Art Curriculum for creative self expression and the Skill Streaming Curriculum to Develop Social Interaction Skills.
  
  

Funded by the Texas Worksource, the United States Department of Agriculture and private contributions.

To access the Galveston Island Child Development Center please contact:

Shirley Harrison
P. O. Box 2600
Galveston, Texas 77553
Telephone (409) 763-4244
Fax (409) 765-5333

e-mail: ShirleyHarrison@www.thechildrenscenterinc.org