Just 4 kidz daycare: JUST 4 KIDZ | CHARDON OH

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JUST 4 KIDZ | CHARDON OH

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About the Provider

Description: In order to provide the care and education you expect for your child, Just 4 Kidz selects teachers based on their commitment to early childhood development and learning. All staff members are required to meet state law qualifications and complete extensive orientation training. We encourage our teachers to attend continuing education programs and to attend various training seminars.

Additional Information: After School Care Available;

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number:
    300274
  • Capacity:
    230
  • Age Range:
    Infant, Younger Toddler, Older Toddler, Pre-Schooler, School Age
  • Step Up To Quality Rating:
    1
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
    No
  • Type of Care:
    Full Time Center
  • Transportation:
    Yes; Field Trips
  • Current License Issue Date:
    Jan 09, 2012
  • Current License Expiration Date:
    Dec 31, 9999
  • District Office:
    Ohio Dept of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) – Division of Child Care
  • District Office Phone:
    (877)302-2347 (Note: This is not the facility phone number. )

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Inspection Date Inspection Type Inspection Status Corrective Action Status Updated
2022-09-29 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT NON COMPLIANCE NOT ADDRESSED 2022-10-10
2021-09-14 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT NON COMPLIANCE FULLY ADDRESSED 2021-11-19
2020-10-14 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT NON COMPLIANCE FULLY ADDRESSED 2020-10-21
2019-10-15 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT NON COMPLIANCE FULLY ADDRESSED 2019-10-16
2018-10-19 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT CONTACT ODJFS FOR THE CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED 2018-10-19
2017-10-31 ANNUAL PARTIALLY COMPLIANT CONTACT ODJFS FOR THE CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN OR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDED 2017-10-31
2017-06-01 COMPLAINT PARTIALLY COMPLIANT NON COMPLIANCE FULLY ADDRESSED 2017-06-26

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MBDOU Aksai district Kindergarten No. 4 “Kalinka”

Excellent mood, a sea of ​​positive emotions and a great mood, helped to make the holiday bright. The program is rich, well-chosen, energetic, positively charged both children and adults! Thank you for a wonderful event to our dear and respected educators!

Titov G.G. Group “Bee”.

BEES

Dear Elena Anatolyevna, Galina Petrovna, Yulia Vladimirovna! Thank you for your understanding, patience, care and attention.

You help the development of children, so that they become kinder and smarter! We wish you health, long years, We also wish you personal victories! Our children will grow up, then We will definitely bring our grandchildren to you!

February 26

Many thanks to the teachers of the “Bees” group and all the organizers for the sports matinee dedicated to the “Defender of the Fatherland Day”! Everything was very fun and interesting! So much positive! Loved it!

Ulyanchenko Oleg Pavlovich

26 26 February 2019

9000 9000 9000

013 I would like to thank the teacher gr. Pchelki Turtle Elena Anatolyevna for your painstaking, hard and important work!!! For the part of your soul invested in our children, for your worries and feelings, sympathy and attention, for your wonderful mood with which you meet our children. And you would like to wish happiness, prosperity, obedient children and that all your kindness will return many times multiplied!!!

Tatyana Vinichenko

February 26, 2019

9000 “Defender of the Fatherland Day” It was unforgettable how children and parents united into one whole to achieve their goals, and this costs a lot in our age of speed and employment. .. Looking at your child, you involuntarily realize how quickly time flies, like only yesterday there were his first performances, but no, no, and a stingy male tear will well up. Yes, but time rushes inexorably forward to new achievements, which is confirmed by each new matinee. From matinee to matinee, children become more self-confident and this cannot be overlooked. And the dance with balls, it seems to me, did not leave anyone indifferent in the hall. Thanks to everyone, educators, instructor, music. to the employee, parents and our children, for this holiday, which flew by like a moment, but will remain in the heart forever.

Buzinov Maxim Alekseevich. June 16, 2018

Dear Nadezhda Nikolaevna! Let me express my gratitude to you for the open physical education lesson. We and our children thoroughly enjoyed this event. Thank you for all the hard work you put into our kids. You managed to light a spark in the eyes of not only every child, but also a parent. Joint performance of exercises, guessing riddles – this caused delight and smiles in all of us. Thank you so much for a wonderful open lesson, for this atmosphere of play and childhood!!!

Parents of the Romashka group Voronko Va Ksenia and Schegoleva Evgenia

June 16, 2018

Tkacheva Julia

Dear educators of the chamomile group Olga Borisovna and Dina Sergeevna! From the bottom of my heart I would like to express my gratitude for your work, kindness and sensitivity towards our children! You are the educators that I dreamed about, and now you met “at the beginning of the journey”, at the beginning of the life of our kids! Over the past year, you have taught and nurtured in our children what we could not give in the previous three years! Thank you very much! The matinee with parents, which was organized by our educators and music worker Olga Nikolaevna on June 1, 2018, caused a huge amount of positive emotions for both kids and parents, and there were tears of joy too! We wish you health, happiness and patience! Thank you, Olga Borisovna and Dina Sergeevna! Thank you! Thank you!

I would like to thank physical education instructor Nadezhda Nikolaevna for organizing an open lesson “zoo” with the participation of parents. Thanks to her, we plunged into childhood, joy and delight with our kids!

We want to thank and wish happiness and success to the manager Ekaterina Viktorovna, the senior teacher Elena Vladimirovna!

June 05, 2018

The team of parents of the Zvezdochki group

Dear Magda Khristoforovna and Svetlana Vasilievna! Let me express my deep gratitude to you for the invaluable work that you have invested in the development and upbringing of our children! A very touching holiday was held in our group – graduation, which turned out to be a “Hurrah”. Simply wonderful, so many songs, poems, dances! Separate admiration for the dance with canvases. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for this holiday. Many thanks to the head, music director and everyone who took part in the preparation for our graduation! And if you remember, then all our matinees are just wonderful, and the children perform like real artists. And this is the merit of our educators – professionals in their field.

How nice to see the happy faces of the children!

Also, we are very grateful to our nanny – Valentina Grigoryevna. Thanks to her, our group is always comfortable and cozy. Giving our children to the garden every day, we remained calm, knowing that the children are our most precious treasure, in the most reliable hands!

Thank you for your love, warmth and care! God bless you and all the best for your titanic work! We wish all employees of the kindergarten health, success in their hard work and BIG THANKS TO YOU for a wonderful “kindergarten” childhood!!!

February 20, 2018

Topilina Natalya Vladimirovna

Thanks to the educators gr. “Bee”

I want to express my gratitude to our Educators, Turtle Elena Anatolyevna and Chernyshova Galina Petrovna! Thank you for your patience and attention, for your love and understanding! you always manage to find a special, individual approach to each child and calm at the right time and praise. We are very interested in the classroom, you create the atmosphere in which it is exciting for the child to learn and learn. With what enthusiasm, he talks at home about his successes or new knowledge. My son learned to carefully cut, glue, paint and much more, but the main thing is to try and do it with love. Thank you for organizing matinees, we approach each event with such excitement and responsibility, our holidays always give a charge of positive emotions and remain in memory! Thank you for taking care of the health of our children!! Regular walks on the street, airing, disinfection, hygiene and massage! Orthopedic mats have already fallen in love and we bought them home! Children in the group are interested and every day is eventful! We go to kindergarten with pleasure!

Letter of February 20, 2018

Topilina Natalya Vladimirovna

Thanks for organizing the sports relay race “Day” in honor of the Fatherland Defender!

I would like to express my gratitude for the organization of the sports relay race in honor of the holiday “Defender of the Fatherland Day” to the physical education instructor Charkova Nadezhda Nikolaevna and the teachers of the senior group “Bee” Turtle Elena Anatolyevna and Chernyshova Galina Petrovna! The most important thing for such competitions is a team game, passion and positive emotions! In addition to the game, the guys showed their skills, abilities and physical strength. Each team had a uniform corresponding to the name and motto! Friendship won! Everyone received commemorative medals and a good mood for the whole day! Congratulations to all the boys on the upcoming holiday!!!

Posted on February 23, 2018

Two -Zhoznova Natalya Aleksandrovna

Review of the Feature Day

Good afternoon! My daughter Vera attends the Semitsvetiki group. I would very much like to express my gratitude to our educators Ksenia Gennadievna and Evgenia Yuryevna for the excellent organization and holding of the holiday dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. For me, the most important assessment of any such event is the mood and emotions of my child. So the daughter’s delight knew no bounds. All evening we watched the video from the holiday and discussed the event. I would like to note the excellent organization, fun and interesting competitions not only for children, but also for parents, and the excellent performance of all the children. It is immediately clear what a huge work has been done by our educators, a music worker and a physical education instructor. Many thanks to everyone for a wonderful holiday and for the daily work in raising and educating our children!!!

Letter dated February 25, 2018

Alyosha Snegirev’s mother Emma Yuryevna Snegireva At the holiday, the children demonstrated dexterity, courage, speed, coordination of movements, friendly mutual assistance. The children danced a very beautiful sailor dance, the girls danced a dance with ribbons, sang ditties. Children sang patriotic songs so that the frost on the skin. Many thanks to the educators of the group Magda Khristolforovna and Svetlana Vasilievna, the head of physical culture Nadezhda Nikolaevna, the music director Marina Nikolaevna. We really enjoyed. Thank you very much for the development of patriotism in our children.

Letter dated February 2, 2017

Tsakmalova Yulia Vladimirovna

Subject: gratitude

Hello! It’s great that such themed games are held in kindergarten according to traffic rules, which a child needs to know from early childhood.

Especially when it happens in a playful way. Many thanks to the teachers!

Letter dated February 11, 2017

Inna Petrovna Arkhipova

Subject: Rules DD

I want to leave my feedback on the great work done on the traffic rules of educators and invited persons in relation to my son, Arkhipov Saveliy. From all this, my child learned: you can’t drive fast in a car, that you need to walk along footpaths and cross the road at a pedestrian crossing and only on a “little green man”. Even on the territory of the kindergarten, he tells me where to follow the rules. Thank you very much everyone for the work done. This is very important at the present time. And it’s very good that it is grafted from the kindergarten.

Letter dated February 11, 2017

Magdalina Khristoforovna Minasyan

Subject: feedback on the work of the Zvezdochka group

I am the grandmother of Alexey Snegirev. movement, and the personal safety of children.

Our group participated in the “Car seat for children” campaign, held a big holiday “How the bun got into the city”, Our children participated in the competition of crafts on traffic rules in preschool educational institutions and in the All-Russian competition “Everyone knows that green light means – the path is open.” Our kids took 1st place. Communicating with a child, you see how much interesting knowledge a child receives in kindergarten. Many thanks to the teachers and all the staff of the kindergarten “Kalinka

Letter dated February 22, 2017

Minenko Irina Petrovna

Subject: Feedback on the work of the “Gnomiki” group

Hello! Children are not interested in learning the rules of the road as adults do. Children are children. They need to move, play, run, throw things and so on. But, to know what a road, a driver, transport is and how to behave on the road, you need to know from childhood, so in our kindergarten, teachers organized the study of the rules of the road in a playful way.

We are grateful for their hard work!

Letter dated February 22, 2017

Borodyuk Lyubov Alexandrovna

Subject of the appeal: events on traffic rules

I want to say thank you for holding such a thematic event in our kindergarten – traffic rules! This event is very interesting and informative for our children, in addition, the children were able to express themselves in the creativity of doing crafts on the topic of traffic rules.

Letter dated February 25, 2017

Avramenko Natalya Petrovna

Thanks to the educators gr. “Asterisks”

Hello! I would like to thank the educators of Zvyozdochka for holding a number of events and competitions on traffic rules. Our children have expanded and consolidated their knowledge of traffic signals and traffic rules. Many thanks for cultivating a common culture of behavior on the road

Letter dated February 26, 2017

Filimonchuk Tatyana Alexandrovna

Many thanks to the teachers of kindergarten No.

4 “Kalinka” for the interesting visual teaching of our children the rules of the road, for an interesting acquaintance with the functions traffic lights, for expanding knowledge about road signs and children with delight, then they tell and show all this at home. And most importantly: THANKS for the fact that our children are brought up responsible for their safety and the lives of other people!! Thank you very much!!!

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Gushchina Natalia

Subject: SDA

Good afternoon! My child is not even in a hurry to go home. A very interesting and necessary competition on the topic of traffic rules. We generally love all competitions and crafts. Thanks to the teachers and leaders !!!

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Mkrtchyan Tatyana Nikolaevna

Subject of appeal: Gratitude to the Educators of the “Gnomiki” group Elena Romanovna Larina and Natalya Anatolyevna Koltsova

The work carried out to teach children traffic rules has justified itself: children gain knowledge in a playful way, willingly join role-playing games, learn to model traffic situations, solve various problems and the search for the right solution.

All planned activities were carried out at a fairly high level and served as the basis for further motivation of preschoolers to study the rules of safe behavior on the street, fixing the rules of the road. And we owe all the new knowledge to Larina Elena Romanovna and Koltsova Natalya Anatolyevna. Many thanks , to our beloved teachers

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Popova Tatyana Alekseevna

Subject: Thanks for teaching traffic rules

Thanks to E.R. Larina and Koltsov N.A. for interesting and informative training in the rules of the road, for preparing for a matinee on this topic.

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Zarubina Inna Nikolaevna

Subject: Gratitude

My daughter Denisenko Angelina goes to kindergarten 4 “Kalinka”, Gnomiki group! In March, a lesson was held on the topic: “Rules of the road”. My daughter and all the guys got acquainted with the main road signs and traffic rules! It is so necessary for our children, from early childhood to know how to cross the street correctly, which traffic light a car can go to, and which one a pedestrian can go to! Also, our children constantly participate in quizzes and competitions, where they constantly get the opportunity to express themselves.

Many thanks and from the bottom of our hearts we thank the educators Koltsov Natalya Anatolyevna and Larina Elena Romanovna for their difficult, but so necessary work for children and parents. High professionalism distinguishes their work, but the main thing is love for children, warmth, patience, understanding of the personality of the child, self-respect and a positive attitude to new things !!! We are very happy that we have such cool teachers, we wish them health, joy and always good mood!!!🌷🌷🌷😉

Letter of March 22, 2017

Rodionova Tatyana Vladimirovna

Topic Topic: Gratitude by the educators of the Gnomiki group

expressed gratitude to our educators for professionalism and responsible approach to the educational process of our children, for the important and such necessary necessary and such necessary necessary traffic rules competitions, as well as various events.

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Zarubina Inna Nikolaevna

Review of the group of gnomes and activities of traffic rules

All classes, including classes on traffic rules, are grammatically conducted by qualified specialists.

Many thanks to the teachers. Everything is great!

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Maxim Alekseevich Buzinov

Subject: SDA

, as an adult and a child to fantasize on this topic. We hope that this competition will not be the last, we will look forward to it.

Letter dated March 22, 2017

Gosteva Olga Vladimirovna

Thanks to the educators gr. Gnomes

I would like to thank Elena Romanovna and Natalya Anatolyevna for the sensitivity and care of our esteemed teachers! Thanks to professionalism, care and attention, our children gradually become members of the children’s team, learn to be friends and respect each other, step by step learn about the world around them, the joy of friendship, creativity, learn their first personal opportunities. Special thanks for learning the rules of the road! This is a very relevant topic today. Thanks to the teachers for additional classes Ekaterina Vladimirovna and Victoria Gennadievna.

The progress of the child’s development is obvious. Thanks muses. worker Marina Nikolaevna. And of course, thanks to the head Ekaterina Viktorovna for the well-established work of the kindergarten.

Gratitude

Sports festival dedicated to February 23rd.

I would like to share my impressions about the circles of the Kalinka kindergarten, which our daughter Babieva Eva attended.

What a kindergarten should look like so that children do not cry in the morning

Lifestyle has chosen the most beautiful, fashionable and innovative kindergartens in terms of design – magnificent buildings that not only children want to go to.

Do you remember your own garden? Green walls, for some reason only half painted, scary pictures along the stairs, vaguely reminiscent of the heroes of your favorite cartoons, and the indestructible and warm smell of borscht even on those days when hodgepodge is on the menu instead. A teacher in a white gown like a doctor giving injections, a hated daytime sleep with her hands over the blanket (then you still didn’t know why) and the general feeling that you will never, never be taken away from here.

Life does not stand still. In such gardens around the world, several decent architects have grown up who have decided, and correctly decided that children should not live like this. And the garden should be a joy. The architects stepped up and built absolutely great buildings that you want to go to. And the kids are walking. Watch and envy.

Groupe Scolaire Joséphine Baker, La Courneuve, France

Even in summer, the temperature in this area does not rise above 18 degrees. In winter, it often and persistently snows, so the architects were faced with the task, on the one hand, to fit the building into this very Scandinavian landscape, and on the other hand, to make sure that children do not fall into the Scandinavian depression. Therefore, all elements outside and inside the building that are not white are orange.

It’s a joyful, sunny color and kids love it. And most of all orange is closer to the floor.

And if you remember the height of an average kindergartner, you understand that he has not grown to white at all and sees the world around him as exceptionally bright.

Écolle Maternelle, Dalles des Olympiades, Paris, France

Another French garden. Get used to it, France is strangely leading the way in making preschool children. So, the garden chose crimson as the color of entertainment, of which there are many in the building. In this it is very different from the dull and tall buildings around. Immediately, from afar, it is clear that a child can be brought here and even left.

But the competitive advantage in terms of architecture of this garden is not limited to color. The key here is the windows.

And it’s not that they are bizarre. The fact is that these windows betray an important secret: the architects who designed them still remember this feeling, you know, when you are four. Or even three.

So, these windows are not simple. Inside, each of them is equipped like a fort, a castle, a hut – in general, as a place where a child can play, hide, climb in and watch everyone, wait for his mother, in general, do everything for which he put sofa cushions in the fort at home . In an ordinary garden, of course, they will not allow him anything like that. Here you can. And how important this is can only be understood by a very mature architect, who, fortunately, seems to have not yet grown up to the end.

Kindergarten Kekec, Ljubljana, Slovenia

What else does a child like to do more than anything else? Well, other than building forts and then refusing to clean up after themselves. That’s it! Move everything in the world, pull it out, destroy it, and if it doesn’t work out, then at least change everything around you.

Childhood is a time when a little destruction brings you extraordinary happiness. So, this amazing kindergarten in Slovenia, with the seriousness that only adults are capable of, took into account this childhood feature and built a kindergarten in which you can destroy and change the kindergarten beyond recognition.

Yes, yes. All facing elements of the building move and turn over. You can change the color of the garden both outside and inside.

Boxes, cupboards and drawers can be moved, rearranged, arranged in colors, shapes and sizes. That is, the garden is actually a giant castle made of cubes in which you can play with friends. Well, isn’t it lovely?

Ring Around a Tree, Fuji, Japan

This is the most wonderful kindergarten in the world. Architecture came to the aid of the idea, and vice versa. And the idea is that you need to stop protecting children. We need to give them a chance to take risks, to test themselves and even, if necessary, a chance to get hurt a little.

Endless modern scientific research unanimously says the same thing: the safer playgrounds become, the more injuries among preschoolers increase. There are two reasons: firstly, the child does not develop an understanding of what is safe for him and what is not. He does not feel the edge that you and I, adults, as children, felt when we fell off the tree once and, although slightly, but peeled off our knee. When everything around is too safe, there is no sense of danger.

The second reason is even more interesting. It turns out that a person cannot be defeated. And the spirit of risky discoveries cannot be knocked out of it by safe playgrounds.

That is why, having not received sensory sensations from the world on the playground, the child, as soon as adults turn away, starts to climb where they should not.

These two factors, meeting in a tiny three-year-old body, lead to an increase in traumatic episodes. So if you don’t want your child to get hurt, let him get hurt. Exactly. Let him climb under supervision in a not very, it would seem, safe place. Let him take a little risk in order to feel, understand his own body and its capabilities. Actually, this simple idea was used by Japanese architects when they built the best garden in the world.

In fact, this is a children’s obstacle course where you are not scolded, but vice versa: you are encouraged if you climbed a higher tree and jumped down to a lower level. The kindergarten is built in such a way that it was impossible to get seriously injured, but at the same time, in order to get into the classroom, you need to walk along the rope bridge, or climb somewhere, or climb somewhere, in general, do something risky.