Tropical Breeze Childcare

By: Courtney, Gabriella, and

Holly
Overview
● Tropical Breeze Childcare is a childcare center located in Honolulu,
Hawaii.
● This center serves Infants through Kindergarten
● In this center, the children are grouped by age
● The age groups include: Infant 1, Infant 2, Young Toddlers, Older Toddlers,
Preschool Pathways, Preschool 1, and Pre-K
● Hours of Operation: 6:30am - 6:30pm
● Summer Program available
Staff Requirements and Hiring Process
● When hiring staff, new staff usually start as floaters and are potentially
promoted to assistant teacher, then lead teacher
● Floaters need to be at least 16 years old
● Assistant teachers need to have a high school diploma and plans to get early
childhood certification
● Lead teacher needs early childhood certification and 3 or more years of
experience
● All staff are required to complete orientation and training, along with
occasional Professional Development Activities which are mandatory.
Staff Orientation: Vygotsky’s Theories
● Here at Tropic Breeze Daycare we teach our staff during orientation about
the theories of the sociocultural theorist Lev Vygotsky
● Vygotsky believed that a crucial part of childhood development was
language, which is something we believe in as well
○ The school teaches children both english and hawaiian
● Child-adult and peer relationships are emphasized in the school as
interaction between staff and other classmates is encouraged
● Another part of Vygotsky’s theories we use is the importance of project-
based learning, which we do by providing lots of project activities for the
children
Staff Training: Diversity
● We will train the staff to recognize and emphasize diversity in the
classroom
● Teachers will be encourage to get to know the students’ background
● They will be required to incorporate different cultures, ethnicities and
genders into toys and activities
● They will also be required to celebrate different holidays for different
cultures to make sure that each student’s background is included and
respected
Staff Training: Health and Safety
● We require our staff to encourage children to stay active with both indoor
and outdoor activities
● Staff are required to monitor children at all times to prevent accidents
● We provide healthy food choices and model good nutrition for the
children
● Personal hygiene and hand washing are strictly enforced
● Teachers are not allowed to have any sharp objects in the class as well as
toxic objects such as shaving cream and playdoh
Balanced Learning Curriculum
● Combines the best thinking of renowned early learning philosophers like
Montessori, Piaget, Gesell and Vygotsky with modern wisdom from the
latest child development studies.
● Research shows that introducing a skill when a child is truly ready, leads
to mastery instead of frustration.
● This curriculum provides teachers with the tools and guidance to
accommodate children’s natural curiosity and to fully support each child
while building problem solving skills and confidence.
● Subjects include: Language & Literacy, Social Studies, Math, Science &
Engineering, Creative Arts, Physical Development and Social & Emotional.
Daily Schedule
● 6:30 - Arrival in Toddler 2 classroom
● 7:30 - Breakfast, Transfer to Preschool
class
● 8:15 - Circle Time, Pledge, Rhythm and
Notes, Wonder Time 1, Children’s Choice
● 9:45 - Morning Snack, Bathrooms
● 10:30 - Outdoor Play, Wonder Time 2
● 11:30 - Lunch
● Noon - Lunch clean-up, Bathrooms
● 12:30 - Quiet time, Nap time
● 2:30 - Limited Centers, Bathrooms
● 3:00 - Afternoon Snack
● 3:30 - Outdoor Play
● 4:30 - Bathrooms, Check Faces,
Children’s Choice
● 4:45 - Wonder time 3
● 5:00 - Evening snack
● 5:30 - 6:30 - Children’s Choice, Story
time, Pickup.
Preschool Unit Plan: Learning about Fall
● Writing Center - Fall Fun Books! Children may choose to
create a book about fun things they like to do in Fall, or
things that other people may do in Fall.
● Reading Center - Fall Books and Poem Time! Children
may choose to read some of the Fall themed books made
available to them or read poems using a pointer.
● Art Center - Fall Collage. Children may explore the fall
nature items as paintbrushes to explore the textures each of
the “paintbrushes” make on their papers. Children may also
choose to paint at the art easel.
● Dramatic Play Center - Going on a Family Trip! Children
may pretend that they are going on a trip to a place of their
choice. The children may help design the vehicle (butcher
paper) to make it into a car or a bus. Children may draw
additional items to make their play more imaginative and
then cut out and tape items onto their vehicle.
● Blocks Center - I can Build a… Children may choose to
look over books or picture word cards for ideas of a different
type of building they may want to consider building.
● Science and Sensory Center - Leaf Blowing. Children may
use straws to gently blow their leaves from one end of the
table to the next, and count to see how many times it takes to
get the leaf to the end. Children may predict the number of
blows it might take for the leaf to travel to the end.
● Math Center - How Many Leaves on a Tree? - Children
may help create a tree out of tissue paper and then choose
one of the tree trunks and count one tissue paper square per
branch and glue it on to represent a fall leaf.
● Research and Technology Center - I Know My Seasons.
Children may learn more about seasons by exploring books
or using the seasons app on the iPad. Children may also
draw or write about some of the things they learned.
B-3 Early Learning Standards & Implementation
https://www.nj.gov/education/ece/guide/standards.pdf

● Supporting Diversity - Teaching of both English and Hawaiian languages,

Unit Plan that covers a season that kids in Hawaii experience differently
than kids in New Jersey. Teachers are encouraged to teach and celebrate
all of the different holidays that student’s may celebrate.
● Professional Development - Mandatory Professional Development
Activities.
● Communication - Parents are kept in the loop about any information
regarding the school and their child through email, online through website,
and in personal conversations with teachers.
Guidance Techniques
1. Recommended to Staff:
a. Indirect guidance
i. Example: John’s mom tells you of her son’s passion for collecting rocks, they can
display in the science center for the following week.
b. Building Relationships
i. Example: Staff gives Ashley a hug after she falls because she needs comforting.
c. Verbal guidance
i. Example: Peter it sounds like you are mad at Jessica because she took the truck you
wanted to use.
Communicating With Families
Plan for including and communicating with families:

● providing support for one another and for their children through effective
understanding and positive interactions
● through technology
● written communication
● telephone calls
● home visits
● family meetings
● family-teacher conferences
Community
Two ways linking current climate and activities:

● Field trips to parts of community

● Community members coming in and speaking to children