Home-based Preschool and Daycare
El Camino Village, Gardena CA 90249
an Outdoor, Play-based program for young children
Our school welcomes children from ages 12 months to 4 years old. We have bilingual staff on-site who can support children in both English and Spanish to ensure that the space feels comfortable and inclusive for all children.
License # 197494068
About
Joselyn
Hi! My name Joselyn and I am the director at Joselyn’s Backyard in Gardena. I worked for Michelle’s Backyard in Redondo Beach for 4 years as an assistant until the time came to open up Joselyn’s Backyard in Gardena. I love working with children and spending my days outside playing in the sand and mud. I have a background in early childhood education as well as first hand mom experience. I have 2 beautiful children of my own which definitely keeps me busy! We are either at baseball or cheer practice on the weekends. My Hobbies include spending time with my family, getting my nails done, or camping.
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Our Philosophy
Welcome to Joselyn’s Backyard! Miss Joselyn offers a bi-lingual, Spanish - English program for your children. If you’re looking for Toddler and Preschool care in Gardena, look no further.
Joselyn’s Backyard Gardena opened up in 2021 and has since filled its backyard with amazing families. Infants, Toddlers and Preschool children alike, love the outdoors and the friends they make. We are a home-based Daycare & Preschool, offering a loving, warm, safe and fun environment for your child to play, learn and grow. Our program encourages Infants, Toddler and young preschoolers to explore the outside world and to experience nature first hand. We offer an outdoor, multi-age program focusing on learning through Play and tailored to the specific interests and developmental levels of our children. Inspired by the programs such as Reggio Emilia and Maria Montessori, We offer a nature inspired, outdoor, program focusing on learning through Play and tailored to the specific interests and developmental levels of our children. We interact and observe children and plan activities that will expand their thinking, encouraging language, literacy, pre-mathematical concepts, and other pre-academic skills to develop.
Here at Joselyn’s Backyard, we spend most of our days outdoors! Childhood is a precious time of discovery and development. Children today face an increasing pressure to grow up too fast, depriving them of fundamental early childhood experiences that help them to become successful adults. Joselyn’s Backyard is committed to preserving the experiences of childhood. We spend hours outdoors exploring, giggling, laughing and discovering the world around us. You will find us regularly covered in mud, chalk, paint or water and laughing as we splash through warm days in water tables, pools and slip n slides. Our atmosphere is relaxed and child-centered.
At Joselyn's Backyard, we take extra care to make children feel safe, comfortable, and loved. The transition from home to school is a huge change for most children and we do our best to make it as fun and easy as possible while learning the necessary skills through play. The goal for our backyard graduates is to enter school as self-confident, effective problem solvers. Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) influences our philosophy and play-based curriculum. We give the children time to ask questions, test theories, and explore topics that interest them. Reading, writing, math, science, and social development are taught through play and project-based work. Teachers take care in planning a curriculum inspired by the children’s interests.
We also believe that emotional development is the core of proper whole-brain development. We have embraced the philosophy of nonviolent parenting which stresses the importance of nurturing emotional intelligence through empathy and connection. We work to provide children with effective tools to work together in a group. We are here to help children understand the meaning behind their actions and teach them positive ways to get their needs met. We gently hold your child's hand as they navigate the transition from home to Kindergarten.
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Additional Info
Holidays, Calendars, and Vacation
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School will be closed for all major Federal Holidays as well as an additional 4 weeks vacation per calendar year.
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Tuition is due regardless of absences, holidays or vacations.
On these days the School is closed, substitute care is not provided.
You will be provided with a 6 month Calendar twice a year.
Field Trips
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Field trips are such a special treat for our children and we try to do them at least 4 times per year, depending on age of child. Some field trips are in House field trips where groups come to us and others are out in our South Bay.
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You will be notified in advance and permission slips will be sent home.
Location, Hours and Fees
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El Camino Vilage
Gardena, CA 90249
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Monday - Friday
8:00am - 5:30 pm
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Contact us today for current tuition rates.
