T.L.C. Learning Center is a Montessori day care and early childhood education centre in Blue Island, Illinois, offering programs for infants, preschool (3–6 years), Montessori classroom experiences and school-age care.
T.L.C. Learning Center has offered early childhood education in Blue Island since 1981. The centre describes itself as serving a culturally and economically diverse community and provides child-centered classroom settings aimed at supporting social, emotional, physical and academic development.
The centre uses Montessori principles and a "prepared environment" with materials that support hands-on, self-directed learning. The curriculum is presented across interconnected areas such as Practical Life, Sensorial, Mathematics, Language, Sciences, Geography and Art, and is structured so children progress at their own pace.
The centre operates an on-site kitchen and provides meals and snacks for children who eat table food; parents supply bottles for infants. T.L.C. participates in the CACFP food program. Parents are invited to visit and take part in classroom and family activities. Policies noted on-site include procedures for tours, part-time attendance, exclusion for communicable illness, requirements for returning after illness, administration of medication with a doctor’s note and documentation requirements for subsidized childcare contracts.
Infant-room care for very young children with individualized feeding, sleeping and diapering routines; staff observe infants and adapt routines and classroom structure as children develop.
A Montessori preschool program in a prepared, multi-age environment where children choose work, use hands-on materials and advance at their own pace across language, math, sensorimotor and practical-life areas.
School-age programming that includes daily homework help, math and literacy enrichment, leadership development, global learning activities, nutrition education and supervised physical activity.
Montessori curriculum organized into thematic and skill-based areas using natural materials, self-correcting tools and activities intended to foster independence and intrinsic motivation.
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