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St. Mary Child Care Center

Our Programs

Infant Program

Infant Program

The Infant Program (6 weeks to 12 months) focuses on consistent love, attention, praise, and care. Our child care professionals help your child grow to be a happy and curious toddler!

Toddler Program

The Toddler Program (12 months to 2 1/2 years) supports your toddler’s growth and curiosity as they continue to to explore the world around them. Our teaching staff help your toddler thrive in a safe and nurturning enviornment.

Preschool Program

Preschool Program

The Preschool Program (2 1/2 to 4 years) centers around learning through creative play. We practice communication and problem-solving skills and techniques as preschoolers develop independence and important relationships.

Kindergarten Readiness

Kindergarten Readiness

The Kindergarten Readiness Program (4 to 6 years) combines social interaction with exposure to basic Kindergarten academics. Your child matures into a young student ready to meet their next academic challenge!

Your child’s education begins in infancy as they begin to discover the world around them. Our staff of trained professionals help your child explore the world around them and engage with other infants and their caregivers every day.

Growth and learning in toddler years is promoted through each child’s curiosity. Our toddler programs are designed to encourage your toddler’s zest for wonder and inquisitiveness.

Our team works daily with your child to achieve developmental milestones and educational goals. Our play based approach to learning allows preschool children to learn through both group and self-directed activities.

Your child will work toward becoming independent, as they learn to communicate and build positive relationships through engaging activites and social interactions.

Child And Center Safety

The safety, well being and comfort of your child is our main priority. At St. Mary Child Care Center, we believe children thrive in a safe and secure environment. Our staff is trained to ensure your child is safe, nurtured and educated.

St. Mary Child Care Center is equipped with safety badges for all parents, staff and administration.  Cameras are positioned throughout the exterior of the building to assist in keeping your child safe. Children are signed in and out electronically by their parents using the Procare App, which also provides constant communication between parents and staff.

Beyond the secure environment is our core philosophy of nurturing your child as they develop their primary abilities. From cognitive and physical development to emotional and communicative skills, we give your child a safe place to flourish as they grow from year to year.

Special Events

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• Toys For Tots
  

  We had another successful toy campaign!

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• Ice Cream Social
  

  Our amazing families enjoyed a frosty treat during SMCCC’s ice cream social on 8/2/2022!

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• SMCCC Halloween Parade!
  

  Weather permitting, St. Mary Child Care Center Halloween parade will start promptly at 10:00 a.m., Monday, October 31, 2022.

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• Heather & Mark

  SMCCC Parents

  When we started looking for child care for our oldest son, it was overwhelming to find a place we felt comfortable to have our children at while we are at work. Fortunately, we found St. Mary’s Child Care Center and couldn’t be happier. The teachers and staff care deeply for the children, and you feel it as a parent. Not only do the children learn so much…

• Ms. Colleen

  Senior Assistant

  I am SO happy to have found St. Mary Child Care Center! I enjoy working in a friendly environment where I can be creative and teach children. I love the daily interactions with the children and their parents. The Center has an amazing group of staff!

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36475 Five Mile Road

Livonia, MI 48154

Phone:
(734) 793-4600

Hours:
Monday: 7:00am – 5:30pm
Tuesday: 7:00am – 5:30pm
Wednesday: 7:00am – 5:30pm
Thursday: 7:00am – 5:30pm
Friday: 7:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday: Closed
Sunday: Closed

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Enrollment at St. Mary Child Care Center

St. Mary Child Care Center does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age or disability. We are licensed and monitored by the State of Michigan Department of Health and Human Services- Licensing and Regulatory Affairs for Child Care Centers.

All children attending five days (full-time) per week will be accepted first. Children may attend part-time, two or three days weekly. Any schedule changes are made based on availablity and are subject to a Schedule Change Fee for each requested change. Enrollment priority is given to siblings of children currently enrolled in the Center- particualarly in the Infant Classrooms.

Registration Fee

Children enrolling in the Center are assessed a $200 non-refundable registration fee. This same fee is assessed for each additional child that a family enrolls in the Center. A one-time $35 eTuition Sign Up Fee is also assessed for each family upon enrollment. After a year’s enrollment, there is an Annual Re-Registration Fee of $75 for the first child, and $25 for each additional child enrolled.

*The registration fee is due upon your child’s registration along with two weeks advance tuition, a signed and dated copy of your child’s health appraisal and current immunization record. The registration process must be completed at least two weeks prior to your child’s first day at our Center.

Child Care Tuition

All Tuition is automatically deducted through eTuition on a bi-weekly basis every other Friday.

Full Time Rates

Infant/Toddler: $69 per day ($690 bi-weekly)

Toddler/Preschool: $62 per day ($620 bi-weekly)

Preschool/Kindergarten Readiness: $56 per day ($560 bi-weekly)

Part Time Rates

Infant/Toddler: $71 per day ($426 bi-weekly for three-day enrollment/ $284 bi-weekly for two-day enrollment)

Toddler/Preschool: $64 per day ($384 bi-weekly for three-day enrollment/ $256 bi-weekly for two-day enrollment)

Preschool/Kindergarten Readiness: $58 per day ($384 bi-weeeky for three-day enrollment/ $232 bi-weekly for two-day enrollment)

Tuition Rates are subject to change and starting rates are based on current rates as of child’s first day of enrollment. Please call the Center to confirm current rates.

Schedule of Operation

St. Mary Child Care Center is open Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM. Children attend each day under one of the following 9.5 hour maximum time slots:

7:00-4:30 PM
7:30-5:00 PM
8:00-5:30 PM

The Center is closed these days each year:

– New Year’s Day
– Good Friday
– Easter Monday
– Memorial Day
– Independence Day
– Labor Day
– Thanksgiving Day
– Friday after Thanksgiving
– Christmas Eve
– Christmas Day
– MLK Day
– 4 Teacher Professional Development days annually

For children scheduled to attend, these days are charged as regular tuition. If a holiday falls on a weekend, either the preceding work day or following workday will be recognized as the holiday and the Center will be closed. (Example: When Independence Day falls on a Sunday, the Center will be closed the following Monday).

Additional Center Closing for the Week After Christmas

To allow teachers time with their families, the Center will be closed for days between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day. During the pre-determined 3 or 4-day closure, no tuition will be charged to families. However, tuition charges for the holidays outlined above will continue to apply, with the exception of Easter Monday. Parents are not charged tuition on Easter Monday.

An annual school calendar with Christmas closure, profesional development days and details surrounding other Center operations/closures will be issued each August.

Financial Assistance

St. Mary Child Care Center uses FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment to help us evaluate requests for financial assistance. Families requesting financial assistance from the Felician Sisters are asked to complete an online application and submit the necessary supporting documentation to FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment.  Click the link for more information and to fill out an application.

“Your children – your responsibility.” Who opens family kindergartens and why

Family kindergartens are attached to schools, comply with safety and sanitation standards, but differ in the number of children in a group. Parents with many children have the right to organize them, primarily for their own children. On the air of the Radio School program, the director of school No. 2065 Natalia Faydyuk and the assistant teacher of the family kindergarten Daniel Titova explain why and for whom such organizations are good.

How family kindergartens appear and disappear

Natalia Faidyuk. Family kindergartens have existed in Moscow for a long time: the first ones began to appear in 2007. Now there are 14 of them in our school, in total about 50 children go to them.

Approximately every month a new garden opens at the school. We are developing this area because it is in demand by parents with many children. This is a very convenient form: the mother gets the opportunity to be at home, and the children are included in the educational process. Salary and compensation for food are added to the family income.

Family kindergartens are not separated from the school: they are part of pre-school education that is included in the structure. A family kindergarten is necessarily attached to some kind of preschool group. At the same time, only a large family with at least three children can organize it. Otherwise, preschool education goes outside the educational system.

Parents have several options for opening a kindergarten:

• bring their children to kindergarten classes;
• fully educate yourself;
• to carry out only supervision and care.

Here are three main types of family kindergarten that can be implemented depending on the desire of the mother, education, opportunities. The simplest in form is the last, only supervision.

Children from any family can come to the family kindergarten. The main thing is that there should not be more than five people in the group. The garden stops working when the youngest in the group goes to first grade. There are situations when one child of the mother herself remains in the garden, and three or four come from another, not necessarily a large family.

Parents who want to send their child to a family garden often do not know who organizes them. Therefore, we are starting to communicate with those families that can accept someone else’s child into the group and are open to dialogue with other moms and dads. This is a story about mutual understanding. The agreement is signed tripartite: one family, another family and school. The most important thing here is how they fit together.

The requirements for any employee of an educational institution are the same. There are no exceptions for family kindergartens. If a person has a pedagogical education and a teacher is provided for in the staffing table of the school, then one of the parents can be him. If there is no pedagogical education, then the position of “assistant educator” is suitable – it is quite consistent with secondary specialized education.

Sometimes parents are willing to spend time and effort on retraining: one dad studies hard for the second year because he wants to be a teacher

He has not yet opened a garden, but strives for it. But in general, retraining is a serious story, which, having at least three children, still needs to be decided.

When we receive applications from parents who want to open a family kindergarten, we create a special commission. She comes to the address indicated in the application and checks the conditions for compliance with safety and sanitation standards. There are no strict rules on the area of ​​the room: after all, the number of children is limited to five. But the apartment remains an apartment, and everyone understands that 15 people inside are too much.

Why family gardens are gaining popularity

Natalia Faydyuk. Family kindergartens are in great demand in SEAD, SAD, areas of mass development. Houses are being built, apartments are being occupied, people are moving. Young people are not afraid to have many children. If we take the contingent of our school, then not a smaller, but even a large part of the children in it are from large families. My deputies are quite young: all men are about 30-40 years old, and three out of four have more than two children. They do everything in time, they work in good positions. In a word, family kindergartens are a natural response to natural urban development. And you can create it in any Moscow district.

There were cases when our commission did not open a family kindergarten. There are private houses on the territory of Moscow, for example. There are families who want to open in them, but this cannot be done. But such cases do not happen often: we had only two precedents when the family garden was not opened. Then it was connected with living conditions. Parents, having received the report, understood everything. Their children went to regular groups.

Imagine that a certain aunt Valya lives in a house with a huge apartment and a pedagogical education. She is ready to take over the family kindergarten. But if Aunt Valya is not a mother of many children, she does not have such an opportunity. But she can become an individual entrepreneur who will provide educational services. This is another story of a non-standard private garden, outside the educational organization.

If we find that the rules of the employment contract or the tripartite agreement on education are violated – for example, someone else works in the garden instead of a mother of many children – it will quickly close. But so far, not a single family garden has closed.

Why mothers with many children need it

Daniel Titova. Having become a mother for the first time, I did not think about opening a family kindergarten and did not even know that such existed. When I came to register my child, the woman at the registry office advised me to queue up for a place in the state kindergarten. I thought: “How is it? Kindergarten? Will I give my child?” I just gave birth, listened to classical music, went to theaters and museums so that it develops inside me, and what if I give it to some aunt for education? I decided to raise my children on my own, without nannies, grandparents.

In my opinion, no one can raise a child better than a mother

Only a mother knows what shortcomings he has. Only she sees when he is really tired, when he can still study or no longer. Which teacher will follow each child when there are 20–30 children in a group?

When I had three children, I learned about the possibility of opening a family kindergarten. I went to school, told about my desire, went through certain procedures and became a full-fledged employee. I have been working as an assistant teacher for five years. There are five children in our garden, all of them are mine. I love to study with them and even regret that I did not receive the education of a primary school teacher. I like to read together, put my hand when writing. I see how they learn to put these letters and sounds into words, and I’m really crazy about it.

How parents from family gardens communicate with the administration

Natalia Faidyuk. It is wrong to say that we hired an employee, opened a garden and forgot about him. Any educational institution has a program that is adopted by the pedagogical council, and any school employee, including an employee of a family kindergarten, is obliged to adhere to it. If the pedagogical council makes a decision by the whole school to switch to the Montessori system, then each employee will have to implement it.

The school has a special person who is in charge of the pre-school level of the educational center. With us, this is Olga Nazarovna, whom every mother-educator knows for sure. She comes to visit and watches how regime moments pass, sanitary standards and safety measures are observed. Olga Nazarovna organizes special holidays for family kindergartens, so children come to us both in kindergartens and schools.

Daniel Titova. Olga Nazarovna comes, everything goes very amicably and peacefully. She doesn’t walk around and say, “Oh, that’s not right, that’s not right.” Everyone understands that this is an apartment. We did not have such that unsanitary conditions were found. After all, any mother wants her child to be clean and safe. All furniture from us was bought according to age, according to the height of the child. All corners have special smoothing pads, sockets are closed, and special locks are required on the windows. You put them on once, but then it won’t disappear anywhere.

We are in very close contact with Olga Nazarovna. She always throws up some ideas: “Look, neuropsychological gymnastics has come out. How do you feel about her?” This is a very useful methodological aid. In addition, she supports the school community, helps not to fall out of the structure of school No. 2065.

Olga Nazarovna holds general events for the whole school. Together we organize, for example, an exhibition. Everyone throws off common ideas in the chat, shares what can be done. Holidays are held together, including trips to citywide events.

Why do schools need family gardens

Natalia Faidyuk. First of all, we are concerned about the education of children, its most convenient organization. The school remains a school, not a commercial enterprise that thinks about super profits.

There are children who find it difficult to work in a team of 30 people. There are children with weak immunity: they are also not very comfortable in a large team

There are children with various specific character traits who are better off in a small company. A family kindergarten helps to prepare children with such characteristics for school: even if in a small group, they communicate, adapt, and prepare for the transition to the first grade. This is better than leaving a child alone at home when he comes to school completely unprepared and for the first time learns that there are classes for 30 people, with rules, discipline and stranger adults.

Children who go to a family kindergarten have exactly the same conditions for entering a school as those who attend a regular kindergarten at the institution. Parents write applications, and their children move on to the next level of education. Most of the children from family kindergartens enter the first grade of our own school.

Daniel Titova. In state kindergartens there is a certain daily routine, and it does not coincide with the one that exists in family kindergartens. Our schedule is adjusted to the schedule, so children with health and character traits are more comfortable in such a “regulated” kindergarten.

I already have two children going to school. They fit perfectly into a huge team of 20-30 people in the class. There were no problems. At home, they turned out to be better prepared than in an ordinary garden. My son immediately entered the gymnasium, and my daughter went to an English private school. It is not necessary to send children to the same school to which the kindergarten is attached.

I decided not to leave my children in family education, because school education is also a way to fully communicate with a large number of people. The child has the first difficulties that he must overcome on his own – this is an important preparation for adulthood.

How children eat in family gardens

Natalia Faidyuk. In addition to a fixed salary, educators and assistant educators receive compensation for food costs. But there are no special strict requirements for the menu in the family kindergarten. When the commission looks at the conditions in the premises, and then comes with control visits, it also examines the table and the quality of the dishes. Those nutrition reports that the family garden sends also show the range of foods used. Therefore, it is very possible to control what and what mom cooks from.

Daniel Titova. We do not attach checks to reports on the kitchen: a certain amount is calculated in advance for each child. The plus is that the mother can really easily take into account the peculiarities of the diet of each child. My children, for example, have gluten intolerance. Accordingly, they do not eat it. This is one reason why family gardens are great for allergy sufferers.

Natalia Faydyuk. Indeed, according to sanitary standards, it is impossible to bring food from home to kindergarten. But there is a way that provides for the exclusion of products based on a medical opinion. If mom brings a certificate, then this will be taken into account. Many mothers follow her not to a public, but to a private clinic. There they receive a list of what the child is not allowed to do. But this is just a list. Of course, in an ordinary state garden, it is more difficult to comply with such conditions. For such cases, when allergies are difficult to bear, a family kindergarten is a great way out.

What are the difficulties in family gardens

Natalia Faydyuk. In my opinion, very small groups in kindergarten are not that good. Many activities, games, holidays depend on the number of children. To divide them into subgroups, to carry out any activities with them, you need much more people than five. In kindergartens at our school, there are always two teachers with children, so they can divide into subgroups and then engage in various activities.

In large groups, children develop both the ability to live in a team and communicate with a large number of people. We are all different, and we will have to live in a very diverse society. The state kindergarten helps in this adaptation. In addition, even the same weak immunity can become stronger with a massive crowd of people. I don’t see anything terrible in large groups.

Daniel Titova. In a family kindergarten, parents have a great responsibility, especially if there are also other people’s children in it. I would not take another child with me: it would become much more difficult for me. With other people’s children, you imagine that your mother will come to you and start saying: “But yesterday you punished my child the wrong way, looked at him the wrong way. They gave something to theirs, but they didn’t give mine.” Your children are your own responsibility. At every moment you know what you need to do, say. And you only need to be accountable to yourself.