You are interested in BBC now what?

1. Read this page of the website.
2. Check the tuition page to see if BBC has the hours you are looking for.
3. If you are still interested email to make an appointment. Please do not call to make an appointment. I will come off as non professional because I am only half listening to you while trying to watch and teach the children. Sorry, they come first.
4. Ask for the handbook and policies to be emailed to you. It is a lot to read and take in.
5. Email back the Tour Information Sheet (will not do a tour without it)
6. Reply to the email sent the evening before the appointment to confirm your tour to following day. All appointments that are not confirmed are canceled.
7. Please call or email to cancel if you change your mind or your child is ill. If you are more than five minutes late without a call the tour is canceled. My time is just as important as yours.
8. Come check out BBC and see if this wonderful preschool is right for your child!

Open: Each family has contracted hours that are somewhere between 7AM & 4:30PM, Monday - Friday. (Might vary year to year.) Extended Care is for a fee if you need time outside of your set hours which you pick from times available below. BBC does not do care before 7am or after 4:30pm. This is not a center and after 50 hours with the children and another 10 plus each week doing cleaning and prep work for the preschool. Well, my family would like to see me.



OPENINGS
For full time openings, please email me what hours you need and I will get back to you if we have an opening. Please note that BBC enrolls no more than two children under the age of 3 years old at any one time. If those two spots are filled then, I can only add them to the wait list. At that time then, I can only take children 2-5 years of age. This is a preschool; my preschool license doesn't allow me to do infant care. I am not a daycare provider, if you need infant care please looks to LCCPAC (www.lccpacmn.org) to help you. Thank you.

School Age: Children enrolled for preschool are allowed to stay when they move on to school. Once is a very great while I will allow a school ager that did not grow up in the program, but has excellent behavior and a younger sibling to both enroll together. School age children that do not come weekly are considered drop in care on non-school days. I can only take children up to my ratio. Please sign up for these days ahead of time or arrange for other care. I need to know by April 1st if you are planning to enroll your school age child in the summer care program here at BBC. Forms will go home early March for you to fill out. Do not wait, some summers I have to turn away children. School age child need to be quiet during naptime and bring daily a book to read. Ms. Jenni will print out worksheets for them to do during this time as well. After one hour, they are allowed to bring out their iPads and Kindle Fire with headphone from home. Things like YouTube is not allowed at BBC. I can not police what the are watching, so please make sure you know what is on their tablet before bringing it to school.

Wait List: From time to time I will have a few families on my list, waiting for their child to be old enough to enroll or for me to have a certain number of spots open at the same time.

We have a wonderful bunch. I fill available part and full time spots pretty fast when I list them. Affordable home child care with my unique preschool program and strong sense of closeness in the BBC preschool family is something in high demand. If you are looking for the cheapest care, then Big Box of Crayons Family Preschool is not for your family. If you are looking for a great place for your child to learn and grow and make life long friends come check us out.

Big Box of Crayons Family Preschool may not be right for you if....
1. You do not (or can not) check your email daily (lots of information is sent via email including weekends). Families need to be able to check their email every day.
2. You cannot remember with the help of a weekly emails and monthly calendars what your child might need for a certain day of the week.
3. You are simply looking for someone to just watch your child. This is not daycare.
4. You are unable to pay the last day of your child's week for the following week(s) of care.
5. You feel your child is sick often, or will not cover their mouth and/or wipe their nose.
6. You do not have some sort of back up care/plan for when your child is sick or when Ms. Jenni's daughter is sick.
7. You cannot be respectful and follow the preschool rules of BBC.
8. You do not want an active part of your child's preschool career (ie: not help with the monthly family homework project, ask them about their day, help them find something for the theme for show n tell...etc.)
9. You are hoping that BBC will "fix" your child. No child is broken. Each child just has their own way of learn.
10. You aren't looking for a wonderful school for your child to learn, grow educational AND socially, and just have a ton of fun.



 If you make an appointment to come in for a tour and then find other care or get busy, please call and cancel or move your appointment. I fully understand things come up or you found a great place that works for you. All I ask is that you call/email and let me know. It is very rude to make my family wait for dinner or evening plans for a tour that does not show up. If you get lost, are running late, or something comes up, please call and move your appointment. It might be a good idea to take my phone number or email address with you the day of the tour in case something comes up. I do not offer another tour for families that are no shows.

** Forms are no longer on this page. If you would like to see them please email me for a temp user name and password to their new location. Thank you.