The Sowing Seeds Mission
Faith
Family
Farm
Sowing Seeds has designed our program around a few important concepts. We want to specifically focus on Faith, Family, and Farm.
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Faith | First, Sowing Seeds Child Care Center is a Christian-based child care program in which we will have regular Bible story time, fun children’s songs, prayer time before meals, and the study of Christlike character including truthfulness, kindness, love, generosity and sharing, and respect.
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Family | Secondly, we want to embrace the family relationship. We seek to teach your child about his or her emotions, self-regulation of those emotions for harmonious family living, respecting and appreciating mom and dad, and love for siblings. If your child has sibling(s) in the center, we will attempt to have special sibling time on occasion so that your children can have positive interaction during the day.
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Farm | Thirdly, we would like to embrace the value and beauty of nature, in particular, appreciation of the farm. On a side note, the center is named in part after Allie’s grandparents, Albert and Tina Dykstra, who were flower and fruit farmers for years in Kent City. We can learn so much through the study and exploration of farming and nature in general.
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Sowing Seeds Philosophy
Sowing Seeds Child Care Center believes each child is a unique and special individual that deserves affectionate attention and care. We believe all children were created with their own personality, gifts, and qualities that should be nurtured and developed. We believe that children do need to learn respect for adults and authority while at the same time fostering their independent thinking. We strive to teach social-emotional intelligence (an understanding of one’s own feelings and an appreciation and respect of others feelings). We will provide a safe and caring environment, which allows children to discover, explore and grow in developmentally appropriate ways. We believe the foundation of learning academically is to be loved and cared for emotionally. Sowing Seeds uses very strict hiring principles to assure excellent quality, compassionate, knowledgeable teachers are operating according to our philosophy
Teaching Your Children
Sowing Seeds is not only a child care facility, but a center for learning. We have an excellent reputation of preparing children for Kindergarten by educating them in the areas of:
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Cognitive skills
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Classroom readiness
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Self control
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Early mathematical skills
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Writing
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Early reading skills
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Phonics
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Social interaction with peers
Sowing Seeds has a full preschool/pre-kindergarten program with a curriculum designed to prepare your child for Kindergarten, and our children have proven to local teachers that they are well prepared and ready to enter a structured school environment.
The purpose of Sowing Seeds Child Care Center is to provide a safe, loving, and healthy environment for all children in our care and to provide daily opportunities for emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, and physical growth to develop each child to his or her fullest God-given potential.
Sowing Seeds Mission