Southern Berkshire Early Childhood Center
The South Berkshire Early Childhood Center welcomes children and families from the community as well as families affiliated with the Berkshire Hills Regional School District.
We strive to offer children a variety of learning opportunities through planned daily activities, positive social interactions and care giving routines. We create a nurturing and safe environment located in a new school, in a generous classroom with plenty of natural sunlight. Children can develop cognitively as well as social and emotionally. We believe in the value of play and build a curriculum around it. Children spend the day in our spacious classroom or our early childhood play yard that we share with the other early
childhood programs. We also go on walks around the beautiful grounds surrounding the new school. The South Berkshire Early Childhood Center has been in operation since 1983.
We provide:
- A daily routine that includes play time, discovery time, art, story telling, rest time and outdoor time
- A literacy-based curriculum that promotes language and pre-reading skills
- Math and science activities
- Group music and singing activities with the other preschool children
- Children and teachers eat together family-style
- Parents can send in lunches or buy hot meals from the school cafeteria
- Parent education and involvement activities
- Monthly newsletters with activities to do in the home
- Field trips to the park
- Swimming program at Berkshire South Community Center and Benedict Pond
- Progress reports and parent teacher conferences
- Assistance with transition to kindergarten
Our staff is:
- Warm, friendly and respectful
- Well trained in child development and curriculum planning
- Certified in first aid and CPR
- Very experienced
- Support staff include resource teachers and licensed social workers
Children are offered:
- Hands on experiences to explore, to paint, to discover and to problem solve
- Opportunities to learn self-help skills and independence
- Opportunities to make new friends and socialization skills
- Opportunities to run, jump, skip, slide, and ride bikes to develop physically
Parents are encouraged to actively participate in the daily routine. Please visit the classroom, have lunch with your child, join an activity or simply say “hello”.
Fees:
Child Care of the Berkshires offers full and part time child care, at competitive rates. We offer discounts and scholarships, based on family need and size and accept child care vouchers and certificates.
Licensed for Preschoolers
Licensed by the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC)
Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
