Cook County Child Care Center
Facility Hours
| Mon - Fri | 7:45am - 4:15pm |
| Sat - Sun | Closed |
Building Bright Futures Together
We believe the values and skills learned early on are vital building blocks for quality of life and future success. That’s why our child care program is staffed with people who understand the cognitive, physical, and social-emotional development of kids, the need children have to feel connected and supported in trying new things, and the caring and reinforcement parents and families need to help each other.
Our Teachers & Staff
We’re committed to creating a safe, supportive space where every child can learn, grow, and thrive. Our teachers personalize learning experiences to meet each child’s unique needs, while fostering curiosity and confidence. Families can count on us for an environment that encourages connection and development—so parents can focus on their day knowing their child is cared for and inspired. For full details on our policies and programs, explore our Parent Handbook.
Our Programs
We offer full-day care for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Through our values—caring, honesty, respect and responsibility—we’ll develop your child to their fullest potential, from social skills to kids’ fitness.
Ages & Adult-to-Child Ratios
6 weeks - 16 months
1:4
Our Teachers
We want to form a partnership with you to provide the best experience for your child. We have an educated staff who continue to devote time to continuing education so they are well trained on individual learning styles and needs of all children.
Developmental Focus
We work together with families to help support each child to grow, develop and learn while providing opportunities your child will need to:
- show interest in their environment
- interact with others for short periods of time
- begin to manage frustration
- begin to generalize experiences
- recognize cause and effect relationships
Learning Areas
We work every day to make each interaction a learning moment for your child. Our areas of learning for infants include:
- Art: focus is on the ways children begin to explore their senses
- Language: focus is on the children's receptive language and beginning communication skills with loved ones and caregivers
- Mathematics: children begin to understand patterns and predictability as they anticipate familiar routines
- Physical Movement: focus on ways infant move involuntarily and with purpose, how they reach and grasp and use their hands and fingers
- Science: focus on how children observe and respond to external stimuli, show interest in exploring, and begin to recognize familiar items, people, and situations
- Social/Emotional: focus on how children indicate their needs to their caregivers, respond to stimuli, and learn to self-comfort
Ages & Adult-to-Child Ratios
16 - 33 months
1:7
Our Teachers
We want to form a partnership with you to provide the best experience for your child. We have an educated staff who continue to devote time to continuing education so they are well trained on individual learning styles and needs of all children.
Developmental Focus
We work together with families to help support each child to grow, develop and learn while providing opportunities your child will need to:
- how they are beginning to examine the characteristics of objects
- make some independent choices
- handle transitions
- seek out others to play and carry out play plans
- pretend
- identify and communicate about problems
Learning Areas
We work every day to make each interaction a learning moment for your child. Our areas of learning for infants include:
- Art: begin to explore art materials including finger paint, crayons, music, dancing and clay
- Language: grow in their capabilities to express themselves in words and phrases. Engage with word play, songs and rhymes. Make initial attempts at writing as they scribble and draw with various writing tools.
- Mathematics: focus on imitation of counting and early understanding of one-to-one correspondence, awareness of empty and full, following simple patterns, beginning awareness of shape and place in space, and matching and sorting
- Physical Movement: How they are beginning to walk, climb, run, and jump, to roll, push, and throw balls, to use their hands and fingers to manipulate books, crayons, blocks and other items, and to participate in dressing and personal hygiene
- Science: Seek out items of interest, begin to use items as tools, use simple strategies to carry out ideas and build on past experiences
- Social/Emotional: Beginning to attempt new challenges, use words to express needs and emotion, to follow simple routines, and engage in parallel play
Ages & Adult-to-Child Ratios
33 months - 1st day of Kindergarten
1:10
Our Teachers
We want to form a partnership with you to provide the best experience for your child. We have an educated staff who continue to devote time to continuing education so they are well trained on individual learning styles and needs of all children.
Developmental Focus
We work together with families to help support each child to grow, develop and learn while providing opportunities your child will need to:
- show their eagerness to investigate new things,
- engage in play with peers for extended periods of time
- experiment with new ways to combine materials
- contribute relevant information to discussions
Learning Areas
We work every day to make each interaction a learning moment for your child. Our areas of learning for infants include:
- Art: focus on how children intentionally use the arts, develop vocabulary to describe their own creations and begin to combine artistic elements
- Language: express their wants and needs more clearly and in greater complexity. Show enjoyment in being read to and may read the pictures or retell the stories in books they know well. Begin to make sense of letters and print as they play with reading and writing
- Mathematics: Use their ever-increasing vocabulary of mathematical terms to describe and make sense of their world. They recite numbers and count objects with one-to-one correspondence. Identify geometric shapes and develop sorting strategies
- Physical Movement: focus on how children show their increasing coordination and balance as they walk, run, climb, hop, jump and gallop, kick, throw, catch and bounce balls. How they use their hands and fingers to manipulate puzzle pieces, to draw and wrote, and to dress themselves.
- Science: Gain knowledge and formulate questions, making plans and predictions, and verbally expressing their ideas and thoughts
- Social/Emotional: Show confidence and self-direction, identify self as part of a family, community, and culture, ability to make choices, verbal expression of needs and emotions and beginning to manage conflicts in social interactions