Child Care Insurance Professionals
1484 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Tel: 888.812.9992
Fax: 888.817.3332
Email: info@ccipros.com
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Minnesota child care center the culmination of many forces
This Rising Stars Preschool is ready to shine
The walls of Laura Mitchell’s new preschool are a sunny yellow. The shelves have colorful labels identifying spots for glue sticks and finger paints. The rest of the room, well, that’s kind of a work in progress. There are shelves that need assembling, toys that need organizing and [...]
Minnesota preschool gets creative to get playground equipment
Grants fund nearly all of the $40,000 price tag of the preschool playground
One preschool is finding creative ways to stretch the budget to ensure the children they serve are happy and healthy. The Children’s Center in Albert Lea recently installed a new playground at its main site on James Avenue. The playground features two slides, [...]
Preschool and day care center given new playground
$30,000 gift from Valero helps to make new playground at Repauno Preschool and Day Care a reality
After a year of planning and building, the kids at the Repauno Preschool and Day Care have a new, safer playground. Funded by a $30,000 grant supplied by Valero, the playground’s new plastic equipment and mulch made from recycled [...]
Michigan preschool invites community to their center at monthly Farmer’s Market
Monthly Farmer’s Market get’s parents out to the preschool
Families from The Ann Arbor Preschool & Family Center have gone home with armloads of fresh, seasonal produce since last fall thanks to a wellness initiative that involves Chartwells, Food Gatherers and The Ann Arbor Public Schools’ Health and Wellness Committee held at a local preschool.
Staff from [...]
Research Shows Delaware Embraces Physical Activity and Nutrition Standards in Child Care
Study shows child care centers can make a difference with child care
A study conducted by the nonprofit health research organization Altarum Institute suggests that Delaware’s first-in-the-nation guidelines for nutrition and physical activity in child care are broadly accepted by both child care providers and parents, and that challenges to implementing the policies can be overcome [...]
Vermont Child Care utilizes federal progam for Nutritious Kid’s Meals
Step in the kitchen and meet the (healthy) Lunch-Lady and blogger Erinn Simon
After the visions of huge cans of ketchup and frozen fish sticks vanished, two innovative women began a federally funded food program in a Burlington, VT child care center. It’s one of the first in the area, Burlington Children’s Space Director Sarah Adams-Kollitz [...]
Seattle, WA preschool offers hope for “nature-deficit-disorder”
Some preschools across the country are swapping classrooms and desks for trees and mud.
Several preschools throughout the country have started to rethink indoor lesson plans. The new schools are part of movement that originated in Europe to get kids out into the natural world.
When they’re outside, the children in Erin Kenny’s class don’t head for [...]
Local Nevada child care board looks at TV “screen time”
Child Care Advisory Board to discuss limits on TV time for kids in child care
The Washoe County Child Care Advisory Board is meeting Tuesday to vote on changes to state and county child care regulations, which include a proposal to limit television “screen time” to one hour a day. Many of the regulations reflect general [...]
North Carolina students host nutrition workshop for childcare professionals
Child care professionals taught how to encourage kids to eat healthy
At a time when more North Carolina children are obese than ever before in history, local students and childcare professionals gathered at the Little Bites, Big Steps nutrition workshop. The workshop, hosted by the Fuquay-Varina High School Family and Consumer Sciences Early Childhood Education interns [...]
Playing in the dirt might make you smarter
Get outside and get dirty – it could make you smarter
A new study finds that naturally occurring bacteria in soil could enhance learning. And as a side benefit, it appears to be a natural anti-anxiety drug, but without the side-effects. In studies presented Monday at the 110th general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in [...]