The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care

Meeting the needs of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children is one of the biggest challenges family child care providers face. The Creative Curriculum^® for Family Child Care helps you design a developmentally appropriate program in your home for each age group.

This book shows how to:

• Organize the home environment for child care
  
  
• Establish a regular daily schedule
  
  
• Collect appropriate materials
  
  
• Guide children's behavior and learning
  
  
• Involve parents
  
  
• Plan appropriate activities with mixed-age groups in dramatic play, blocks, toys, art, sand and water, books, cooking, music and movement, and outdoor play

The book includes checklists for ensuring children's safety, a sample daily schedule, equipment lists with illustrated storage ideas, and sample letters to parents.