Contact UsPhone (253) 272-7594Email weeones.childcare@comcast.net
Address
2918 South 14th StreetTacoma, Washington 98405
Welcome to Wee One's Preschool & Child Care
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We would like to thank you for taking time to consider Wee One’s to meet your child’s daily care, development, and education needs. Wee One’s Preschool & Child Care is a licensed in-home childcare, serving family’s childcare needs since 2002. We care for children from 24 months (about 2 years) through five years old, Monday through Friday 6:30am to 6:00pm. As you search for childcare, you may have already noticed that there are two basic types of licensed childcare facilities, childcare centers and licensed in-home providers. You may be asking yourself “what’s the difference” and “which is better for my child”? Child Care centers can be owned / operated by a school, church, corporation, or a private owner. Childcare centers typically have a large number of children that are grouped by age into classrooms. The number of children in each classroom varies based on the age of the group. For instance, an infant room can have up to eight babies together with two teachers. A toddler classroom can have up to fourteen little ones with two teachers. And a preschool age classroom can have as many as twenty children in one room together, again with only two teachers. Childcare centers tend to be very structured and look and feel more like a school.
Licensed In-Home facilities are located directly inside of the childcare provider’s home. For the most part, in-home childcare facilities look and feel more like your own home. The childcare environment is integrated into the provider’s house. Children may play in the living room, eat at the kitchen table, and play outside in the back yard. The number of children allowed in an in-home facility is dramatically smaller than in a big center. A licensed in-home childcare provider can have up to six children by themselves, but only two of those children can be under the age of two years old. If the provider has an assistant or co-provider, then the facility can have up to twelve children, but only four of those twelve children can be under the age of two years old. Typically, most in-home providers have all the children together, more like a family.
In choosing your child’s day care, these are key factors to consider. Centers are big and at times impersonal. There are many different teachers that seem to come and go. Consistency and good communication can be a challenge for families in a big childcare center. Childcare centers often will have a more structured learning program or curriculum for the children. In-home facilities feel much more like home. They tend to be smaller and less structured than centers. This can be a good thing or not. Having a mixed age group of as many as six children by yourself can get very busy at times. In-home providers that have an assistant or a co-provider tend to be more structured and organized. The ability to provide a structured learning curriculum in an in-home facility is challenging with all the children mixed, but not impossible. In either type of facility, by visiting and listening to your “gut” will help you gauge what type of facility is best for your child and family needs.
At Wee One’s Preschool & Child Care, we have taken the best aspects of both a childcare center and an in-home and blended them together. Here are a few points about our facility that we are proud of.
At Wee One’s Preschool & Child Care, we have taken the best aspects of both a childcare center and an in-home and blended them together. Here are a few points about our facility that we are proud of.
Our overall group size is small, relaxed and calming. We have space for twelve children from the age of twenty-four months to five years old with two primary care providers. We do not have a program for school age children. We have decided to specialize in early childhood care and education and let other great programs such as the YMCA, Boys and Girls Club, and other school-based programst be the experts in after school care.
Our program is educationally rich. In addition to the learning centers, we have daily circle time, music, art, and theme-based curriculum time. We work with each child to learn both uppercase and lowercase letter identification, phonics, letter printing, counting, and other skills needed to be ready for kindergarten. Our goal is to help your child acquire all the skills they will need to be successful on their first day of kindergarten and beyond.
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We are professional and reliable. We have been in the early childhood field since 1988. Parents entrust their most precious treasure, their child, into our care each day. Professionalism and dependability are the cornerstones of Wee One’s. When you are ready to check references, let us know. We will have other Wee One’s families contact you to personally and privately speak with you, answer any questions you may have, and share their own experiences here at Wee One’s. We find that this is a more meaningful and beneficial way of giving a reference rather than written letters.
In the back of the house is our main preschool classroom for children aged twenty-four months through five years old. The preschool classroom is arranged based on age-appropriate learning centers. Preschool children can build a zoo in block area, cook pretend breakfast in housekeeping, or read a book in library. There are also a wide variety of age-appropriate puzzles, and manipulative for children to choose.
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Our backyard is like a park. In 2020 we renovated our playground and added several nice features that make it usable year-round. The playground is divided into two areas, the first area is a rubberized surface material (similar to what you would find at local parks). The second area is a sidewalk loop. The rubberized play material side of the playground offers lots of room for running, play with outdoor sports equipment, a rock-climbing wall, slide, multi-level balance beam, and an interactive climbing tunnel. The sidewalk portion is designed for riding trikes and bikes, spring riding toys, and a child size basketball hoop. Our preschool children go outside year-round.
