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Absences
Please notify your child's provider before 8:00 am if your child is going to be absent from care. For parents on a voucher, Bethel Child Care Services must call your voucher counselor when you have incurred three unexcused absences. This can result in termination of your voucher. We must also notify your voucher counselor of ten excused absences in a month, which can also result in termination of care, unless the absences are reported.
Parents are allowed a ten-day vacation each year; however, the provider should be notified of vacation plans in advance. Parents are required to pay all parent fees during absences and vacations in order to hold their slots.
If your provider goes on vacation or is closed, you can call our office for a back up provider. If you use a back up provider, you will still need to pay your parent fee.
If your child will be absent due to an extended illness (chicken pox, or other contagious disease) or hospitalization, it is important to contact your provider immediately.
Activities
The goal of Bethel Child Care Services, Inc. is to provide your child with the best learning experience possible. Children will learn through a variety of stimulating activities developed to increase self-esteem, build readiness skills and create positive communication skills. Curriculum is based on developmentally appropriate practices and is a literacy based curriculum.
Bethel Child Care Services promotes literacy by encouraging reading to children by providers and parents. Bethel promotes language development. In addition to curriculum geared to building literacy skills, we also encourage activities that include puzzles, books, dramatic play, music, arts and crafts, outdoor play, number and letter recognition. Bethel promotes multicultural activities and awareness.
Bethel Child Care Services has many books, curriculum programs and activities that are made available to the providers for your children.
We encourage you to ask your provider what activities they do each day. Providers should make the child's family an active part of their learning experience. If you are unsure or have any questions about your child's day care activities or program, please contact Bethel Child Care Services, and we will address your questions.
Bethel Child Care providers perform annual educational assessments on children 2.5 to 5 years of age. These assessments are designed to gauge your child’s growth and progress in various learning areas.
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Bethel Child Care Services, Inc. • 360 Merrimack Street, Ste 45 • Lawrence, MA 01841 • (978)-458-6577