Accreditation Feedback

AELCS has granted the Hemel House program accreditation status to recognize that they have met the provincial requirement for high quality child care as demonstrated using specific data collection strategies and identifications in the criteria outlined in the Quality Standards.

We would like to share with you some of the AELCS noted feedback from our site visit in March 2012.

STANDARD SEVEN – The work environment supports quality service delivery. 

Demonstrated Best Practices:

• Providers have opportunities for education and professional development. The Agency pays for providers to attend a regional conference, additional training and for memberships in the Centre of Excellence.
• Resources are available for Providers and staff planning and education.
• There are meetings and the minutes indicate Providers input into decision making.
• Job descriptions are regularly updated and are detailed.
• Providers and consultants have a private online network where they can share new activities or ask ideas of other providers.
• Providers can print forms they need from the Agency web site.
• The agency has expanded their building to allow space for in house training. 
• Providers set their own fees
•  There is a play room at the office for children to use when parents visit or providers come to the office with children.
  

Accreditation Feedback

AELCS has granted the Hemel House program accreditation status to recognize that they have met the provincial requirement for high quality child care as demonstrated using specific data collection strategies and identifications in the criteria outlined in the Quality Standards.

We would like to share with you some of the AELCS noted feedback from our site visit in March 2012.

STANDARD SIX - Program philosophy, policies and procedures support staff in
providing high quality early learning and child care services.

Demonstrated Best Practices:

• Statements are written in plain language style. 
• There are detailed job descriptions for Providers and staff. A Code of Ethics guide management and Providers.
• Clear statements of program philosophy, mission statement and goals and objectives are in the handbooks and are reviewed annually.
• Providers meetings provide for an exchange of information and for Providers input into policies and procedures.
• Each Provider receives a clear and in-depth manual when they are contracted, and policies and procedures are reviewed with the director. 
• Policies and procedures are reflected in everyday practice. 

Make-it Topic: Band Aids

Imaginative:

• Place out bears and small pieces of masking tape (band aids) or band aids to fix bears  
• Make a first aid station  
• Make band aids with felt and velcro, place out in dramatic play area
• Create a veterinarian station

Language:

• Write a story or draw pictures of how each child has been hurt and needed a band aid 
  
• Read “Dr. Dan the bandage man”  
• Read “Scratches and Scrapes”  
• Read the poem Bernina band aid and make a band aid flannel story

Bernina had a Band-Aid
on her elbow and her chin,
her ankles, knees and forehead,
plus her shoulder and her shin.
Another two were on her ears
and ten were on her toes.
She'd one on every finger
and a big one on her nose.
Her Band-Aids were the coolest
that her friends had ever seen.
A few of them had leopard spots
and some were neon green.
A bunch were lit with lightning bolts,
or stars and crescent moons,
while some had superheroes
from the Saturday cartoons.
Bernina's now in trouble
for there's just one little catch;
she used up all the Band-Aids
but she didn't have a scratch.

Art:

• Band aid pictures: place out a variety of band aids and allow the children to create a picture using them  
• Make a band aid man, allow the children to use band aids to make people  
• Trace the child’s arm and hand on a paper for the children to decorate. Provide a band aid to place on their picture and tell a story of why it is placed there.  
• Tensor bandage stamping roll the tenser and place them in paint and stamp with side and end for different textures  
• Buy strip band aids and allow the children to paint them  
• Make band aid butterflies use a band aid to secure a tissue that has been made into an accordion style (or fan) draw on antennas

Water/Sand

• Place gauze into the water table for straining  
• Place different band aids into the sand for sifting  
• Place eye droppers and magic beads into the water

Gross Motor

• Play band aid tag, when a person is tagged they hold a band aid and wait for the Dr. to come and unfreeze them  
• Have a band aid scavenger hunt  
• Place out tenser bandages and walk on them like a balance beam 
• Play "I have a band aid on my toe" – the provider says a body part the children point where the pretend band aid is. Allow other children to lead the game.

Science/Curiosity

• Take band aids and see what it stick to and doesn’t stick to  
• Take a band aid apart use a microscope to view
• Place out the materials a band aid is made of for exploration

Blocks

• Place out waffle blocks  
• Place out band aid boxes to build with

Conceptual/Table top/Fine motor

• Have different types of band aids for sorting  
• Place out a band aid file folder game: use band aids as game board square, the children roll the dice and move that number of band aids.  
• Band aid lacing: Make a large band aid from construction paper, laminate and punch holes around for lacing  
• Place out a Mr. potato head and play dough for making band aids  
• Cut different bandages in half for a matching activity  
• Color sorting

Music

• Sing the band aid song  
• (Sung to the tune of 'Oh Susanna')
  Well, I come from San Francisco
  with a Band-Aid on my knee
  and I'm going to The Preschool
  My good friends for to see.
  OH Oh Mommy
  OH don't you cry for me
  'Cuz I come from San Francisco
  with a Band-Aid on my knee!

Quiet

• Flannel board band aids and people for the children to make a story with

Cooking

Band aids

Need: large graham crackers,, large marshmallows, 6 tablespoons milk, 2 teaspoons vanilla, 2 cups confectioners’ sugar, orange food coloring. 

Directions: Break graham crackers in fourths. Set aside. With a knife cut marshmallows in half and cut off rounded edges to be used as gauze. Set aside. Place milk and vanilla in microwave safe measuring cup and heat in microwave for about 20 seconds or until hot. Remove measuring cup from microwave and pour in confectioners’ sugar. Mix quickly. Add food coloring and mix thoroughly until it turns into a "Band-Aid peach" color. To assemble use rubber spatula and spread a thin line of the frosting mixture on the graham crackers. Gently press marshmallows on the center of the graham crackers.. Serve.

Field trip

• Go to the local store and look at different types band aid
• Visit Red Cross or St. John's

Accreditation Feedback

AELCS has granted the Hemel House program accreditation status to recognize that they have met the provincial requirement for high quality child care as demonstrated using specific data collection strategies and identifications in the criteria outlined in the Quality Standards.

We would like to share with you some of the AELCS noted feedback from our site visit in March 2012.

STANDARD FIVE – Relationships with families are supportive and respectful. 

Demonstrated Best Practices

• There is regular exchange of information verbally, through newsletters, bulletin boards.
• The agency website has an ‘Activity Page’ for parents and children to complete together.
• There is a procedure for resolving issues between providers, families and the agency.
• Licensing reports are posted on the website without identifying children.
• Families are informed about policy and practice changes that may affect them.
• Families are provided with clear information on agency philosophy, goals, policies and practices in the parent handbook.
• Parents are expected to meet with a consultant to review policies and provider profiles before interviewing providers.
• Parents are encouraged to share information about their children and make suggestions
  for their care. Families are encouraged to express needs and preferences in the initial
  registration form.