Good Shepherd Catholic Day Care Center is a Catholic day care and preschool in Bloomingdale, Illinois, offering early childhood programs and kindergarten preparation for children in roughly the 2½‑ to 5‑year age range.
Good Shepherd Catholic Day Care Center is a faith‑based early childhood program in Bloomingdale that supports parents and provides preschool preparation for kindergarten. The center is supervised by the Missionary Sisters of Christ The King and describes a focus on children’s spiritual, intellectual, physical, emotional and social development.
Classrooms are organized into learning centers that emphasize hands‑on exploration and concrete experience. Daily activities include group circle time, songs and rhymes, art projects, free play, and outdoor play. Religious instruction is incorporated through Stories of God’s Love, Bible stories, prayer and time in a Prayer Room.
The daily schedule includes morning arrival and free activities, breakfast, structured group time and art, outdoor or indoor play, lunch and nap, afternoon snack and late‑day free play. The center conducts a daily pre‑admission health screening at arrival. Pickup is normally between 3:00 P.M. and 6:00 P.M.; earlier pickups must occur before 12:30 P.M. except in emergencies, which require advance notification. Individuals authorized to pick up a child must be recorded on the child’s application and present photo identification at pickup.
Discipline is handled with positive techniques; corporal punishment, humiliation, withholding food or bathroom use and other abusive measures are prohibited. The center is closed for listed Catholic and federal holidays, for the Sisters’ vacation in July and for specified teacher study days in January, and may close for severe weather with parent notification.
Classroom activities introduce colors, shapes, numbers up to 10, early alphabet, simple art and songs; religious stories and prayer time are included.
Focuses on social development and cooperative play, fine motor tasks, circle time language practice, books and songs, with religious stories and prayer.
Encourages curiosity with block play, sorting and matching games, simple hands‑on science, books and songs, together with religious instruction and prayer.
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