Jackson Child Care

School-Readiness Focus: Language & Communication | Learning Across Languages
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month 🌎📚

Vegetable. Verdura. 🥕🍅
One idea—two words—and a wonderful opportunity to learn!

Exploring Spanish words alongside familiar English vocabulary. Making connections between words, pictures, and everyday experiences strengthens language, communication, memory, and curiosity while helping children appreciate the many languages and cultures that enrich our world.

School-Readiness Focus: Persistence | Keep Trying! 🧩

Which piece might fit? What else could we try? Puzzles give children a reason to look closely, test an idea, make adjustments, and keep going. Whether working independently or alongside friends, a child's persistence grows each time they stick with a challenge.

School-Readiness Focus: Science & Curiosity | “What Do You Notice?” 🔎🌿

A walk, a puddle, a bug, or a changing leaf can spark big thinking! When children notice, wonder, compare, and ask questions, they’re practicing the curiosity and observation skills that help them become confident learners.

Sometimes the best classroom is simply the world around us.

School-Readiness Focus: Executive Function | Plan, Prepare, Create!

Celebrating | Making Pepperoni Pizza on National Pepperoni Day!

Making our own pepperoni pizzas turns lunchtime into hands-on learning! Children follow a sequence, remember what comes next, make choices, and practice self-control as they spread, sprinkle, arrange, and wait for their creations to be ready.

These everyday experiences strengthen the planning and attention skills preschoolers use throughout the school day—and build their confidence to say, “I made it myself!”

VELDS Connection: Approaches to Play and Learning | Executive Function & Cognitive Self-Regulation

Honoring Hispanic Heritage Month
School-Readiness Focus: Independence & Curiosity | Taste, Choose, Create! 🌮

Exploring culture can happen right at the table! As children choose ingredients, serve themselves, assemble their own meals, and try familiar or new foods, they’re practicing independence, decision-making, fine motor skills, and curiosity.

Everyday experiences like sharing a meal can build confidence while opening the door to learning about foods and traditions from other cultures.

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
School-Readiness Focus: Early Literacy & Language | Stories Connect Us 📚🌎

Books open doors to new words, ideas, people, and traditions. During Hispanic Heritage Month, our children are exploring stories and experiences that invite them to listen, talk, ask questions, and express their own ideas through words and art.

Every story is an opportunity to grow as a reader, communicator, and curious learner.

🍂 Fall Play With Purpose at Jackson Child Care!

Fall gives children so many natural opportunities to wonder, explore, create, and learn. At Jackson Child Care, those everyday experiences become meaningful opportunities for school readiness—while children do what they do best: play.

From stories and creative expression to friendships, outdoor discovery, and hands-on learning, every experience has purpose.

Limited preschool openings are available this fall. If you know a Springfield-area family looking for a small-group, nurturing early learning environment, please share our information with them.

Where Play Has Purpose.

School-Readiness Focus: Early Math | Patterns Everywhere 🔵🟡

Look, think, try, check! When children copy and create patterns, they’re learning to notice what repeats, predict what comes next, and use problem-solving to make it work. Early math is happening right in the middle of play.

Today is National Voter Registration Day! 🇺🇸

Are you ? Take a moment today to register to vote or to check that your voter registration information is up to date.

Your voice. Your choice. Be ready to participate.

📚 Weekly Storytime | Featured Book

We’re introducing a new Weekly Storytime | Featured Book series

Stories do so much more than introduce children to books and language. They help children explore feelings, build vocabulary, think through problems, make connections, ask questions, and discover new ideas about themselves and the world around them.

Each week, we’ll feature a thoughtfully selected children’s book and take the learning beyond the story with a:

📖 School-Readiness Focus
🌱 VELDS Connection
💡 Simple Try It! experience to bring the story to life
💬 Talk About It question to encourage conversation and deeper thinking

Our goal is to demonstrate intentional teaching practices grounded in the Virginia Early Learning Standards(VELDS) and to share practical ideas that families and early childhood educators can easily use with children.

Because sometimes a wonderful story is only the beginning of the learning.

📚 Follow along each week as we turn great stories into meaningful learning experiences.

Learning | Playing | Growing Together
💛 Where Play Has Purpose.
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