At Just Like Home Daycare Center, we believe the first five years are the most important years of a child's life. Our curriculum is built on the Creative Curriculum framework and enriched with play-based exploration, bilingual experiences, and social-emotional learning that develops the whole child.
The result is a learning environment where children are engaged, developmentally supported, and joyfully growing every day.
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Children learn best by doing, touching, building, experimenting, imagining, and working alongside caring adults. Our classrooms are designed to support this natural learning process through intentional play, teacher-guided activities, and rich daily routines.
From sensory tables and building blocks to dramatic play and outdoor discovery, our classrooms are filled with materials that invite children to explore. Every play activity is chosen to build specific developmental skills.
We guide children toward independence at every age, from infants learning to self-soothe to preschoolers making choices in learning centers. Small successes build confidence and readiness for new challenges.
Our program focuses on early literacy, number sense, self-regulation, listening, and cooperation. These are not only school-readiness skills, they are lifelong skills.
Creative Curriculum gives our teachers a clear, research-backed structure for planning intentional learning experiences across cognitive, social-emotional, physical, and language domains. Teachers use observation and documentation to ensure every child progresses at their own pace.
For our youngest learners, Creative Curriculum supports secure attachments, sensory awareness, and responsive caregiving that strengthens early brain development.
In preschool classrooms, integrated thematic units blend literacy, math, science, and social studies into play-rich experiences that build kindergarten readiness naturally.
Alongside academic learning, we use Love and Logic strategies to support emotional growth, conflict resolution, and positive behavior in a respectful classroom culture.
Exposure to a second language early in life provides cognitive and social benefits. Our bilingual environment weaves language naturally into songs, stories, greetings, and daily conversations, while celebrating the diversity of our Lakewood community.
Just Like Home Daycare Center participates in Washington State's Early Achievers program, which holds providers to high standards for learning environment quality, curriculum implementation, and continuous professional development.
Our participation gives families trusted third-party assurance that our program meets or exceeds state expectations for early childhood care and education.
Visit one of our Lakewood campuses and watch the learning happen firsthand.
