Mississauga
Brampton
Young children are natural investigators, innately curious and creative risk-takers. Through play and exploration, children learn about themselves, others and the world around them. We start building STEAM skills at an early age as this creates a solid foundation for future learning and encourages children to become active participants in their own learning.
We ensure that STEAM learning is integrated into your child’s daily curriculum through our rich classroom materials, books, discussions, experiments and art projects.
Children are natural scientists and they discover how the world works by making predictions, observing, and carrying out experiments. They build theories to explain what they see and collect data to test those theories. Children learn from other children and adults as they ask questions, explore and work together to solve problems. They begin to think "outside of the box” as they engage in fun, hands-on and engaging learning experiences. Some of our favourite Science topics include Life Cycles, Healthy Me , My Body, Five Senses, Plants, Space, Dinosaurs, Arctic Animals, Habitats, Seasons, Sink and Float, Simple Machines, Rocks and Soil and Magnets.
Our Childcare Centre provides children with their first sense of community outside of the home. Social Studies learning begins as your child makes his/her first friends and participates in decision-making. Topics such as All About Me, My Family, Friendship, Safety, Manners, Feelings and Emotions are introduced early in your child’s journey.
Our Educators extend your child’s learning as they begin to explore their neighbourhood. Children learn about Community Helpers and their roles in our society. Special guest visitors, neighbourhood walks (eg. Fire Station, Ice Cream Store and Public Library) and class trips complement our classroom learning and are an important part of our Social Studies curriculum.
Our classroom environment celebrates our multicultural community by immersing children in culturally diverse classroom materials, music, stories and celebrations of special holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, Passover, Easter, Ramadan, Eid ul Fitr, Diwali, and Kwanzaa.
Technology for children includes the integration of tools that are used to support children’s work including clipboards, scissors, big tweezers, tongs, magnifying glasses, coloured lens, eye droppers, and drawing materials (crayons, markers, paint brushes, pencil crayons). Simple tools such as pulleys, wheels, levers and ramps are also incorporated in your child’s classroom and support children’s cognitive development.
Engineering is a natural part of our everyday early learning and it is the process by which young children discover how the things in their world are built and how they work. Whether children are building with different sized blocks, constructing a railroad track or experimenting with a marble run, they are problem solving and acting as engineers. Our educators guide our young thinkers to identify problems, build plans, test ideas and share their discoveries.
A creative mindset is important as scientists need to innovate and solve problems creatively. Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Drama provide children with opportunities to express themselves by way of a creative outlet.
Our Arts Curriculum:
When children begin their journey at Busy Hands ‘n’ Minds, they bring with them knowledge and experiences about numbers, shapes, and space in the environment. Through the use of manipulatives, pictures, stories, poems, songs and rhymes, our educators create a numeracy-rich environment that builds on children’s prior knowledge. Our teacher-directed activities illustrate concepts and skills being taught while child-directed activities provide opportunities for children to explore, practice, and extend their understanding independently or within a small group.
Our Toddler Early Math program focuses on Colours, Numbers and Number Sense, Shapes, Spatial Relationships, Measurement, Sorting and Simple Patterns.
Curriculum goals in our Preschool Early Math program include Number and Numeration, Operations and Computation, Data and Chance, Measurement, Geometry, Patterns, Functions & Algebra.