Small Steps - Children ages 12 months - 5 years of age
Small Steps Child Care is an early childhood education program for children ages 12 months to five years old. The program is offered to children with a parent enrolled in an onsite Adult Education class at the Wellstone Center as a service to eliminate the childcare barrier many parents experience when they want to pursue further/continued adult education. Small Steps offers children a fun, safe, and energetic place to play, learn, and practice English language skills using the Let Them Play curriculum series. Many children enrolled in Small Steps transition to the Skills for School preschool program and THRIVE Family online and in-home visiting program when they are of age.
Our educators focus on:
- Promoting social emotional regulation
- Helping foster positive peer interactions
- Inspiring curiosity in problem-solving
- Encouraging symbolic thinking
- Exploring the alphabet—skills like phonological awareness, identifying letters and letter sound knowledge
- Nurturing emerging reading and writing skills
- Teaching number concepts and operations like counting, quantifying, and connecting numerals with their quantitie
Let Them Play curriculum series
This new comprehensive program that invites every child to take the first steps on their learning adventure through songs, games, and books.
Get Connected!
If you would like to learn more about the Parent and Early Childhood Education program and inquire about registering your family for the program please contact Service Connect.
The Parent and Early Childhood Education program at Neighborhood House promotes inclusivity and multiculturalism, which we strive to align with our mission and vision.
As the Leadership Team has been developing action plans for FY27, we also took a closer look at Skills for School participation trends before the metro surge. Because participation had already been declining, we determined that the wisest next step is to use the upcoming program year as a time to evaluate how this program may need to be updated to better meet the needs of households seeking early childhood programming.
