At Children’s Pantry, we believe that staff and parent communication are the keys to successful coordination.  All parents of infants and toddlers must completely fill out an Intake Form when they register.  This form will be kept in their classroom file.  Also, teachers communicate daily with parents through an App called HI Mama https://www.himama.com/features. Hi mama helps us to capture and share every important milestone from the classroom, and keep open lines of communication though in app messages and reminders. 

We try to be as flexible as we can, but ask to be given at least 24 hours notice prior to an absence. We close our facility for 1 week every year (generally the 2nd week in August) for an all staff inservicing and training. Please feel free to call us with any further questions regarding attendance at (414) 342-8015 and we will be happy to personally answer them.

Our facility practices routine Covid Health Measures by requiring our staff and children over 5 years of age to wear masks. We require all staff and every child enrolled to have a daily temperature check performed before entering our facility. All staff and children enrolled are required to practice frequent handwashing. All toys and surfaces are disinfected daily.

Cleaning and sanitizing occurs every day.  We have teacher checklists in each room so that everything gets properly sanitized as we go through the day.  We also implement extra rounds of cleaning when illnesses are going around in order to combat the increased germs. 

Children’s Pantry kitchen staff plan and prepares all meals on site. We offer Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner at our facility in addition to healthy snacks that meet USDA requirements. We are proud participants of the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), a Federal program that provides healthy meals and snacks to children receiving childcare, participating in before and after school programs, or residing in homeless shelters.

Yes. Our teachers abide by a daily routine and follow a weekly lesson plan. We are able to communicate daily with our parents through our Hi Mama app, https://www.himama.com/features  so they are able to stay in the loop as to what’s happening in their child’s classroom and access each child’s daily reports.

Our activities consist of reading books, dancing, singing, art, music and movement, games and activities that require problem solving, both structured and independent play and fieldtrips for our older children. Our activities try to encourage the children to build appropriate social skills, enhance comprehension, develop fine motor skills, proper etiquette and manners and allow our older students space and time to complete homework assignments.

Children under the age of two are cared for on individual schedules, so sleeping times in those classrooms vary according to the needs of the children. However, after a busy morning, the older children settle down for naps shortly after they eat lunch. Each of our nappers are provided a mat & sheet to sleep with. Their sheets are regularly laundered and the mats are wiped down daily.

We start potty-training here at 18 months, but are flexible and conscientious to the needs & requests of each individual parent and child. Potty-training is most successful with daily communication between the child’s teachers and parents. Our teachers will provide education to the parents if appropriate as we help to teach your child proper toilet training practices. If there’s a method working at home, please let us know and we will try to adopt it for your child. We use a low-key approach with lots of praise. Please realize that this should be your child’s accomplishment and not yours or ours. Children shouldn’t be compared to how others are doing.