A Taste of Sandwich Children's Center
Sandwich Children’s Center is a non-profit early-learning center for children aged 6 weeks to twelve years. The Center is open year round, Monday through Friday, from 7:15a.m. to 5:30p.m. Drop-off and pick-up times vary with families’ schedules. We also offer full-day programs during school vacation weeks, holidays during which the center is open and summer vacation with our Summer @ the Center program.
Three Different Programs
The Center has separate curricula, classrooms and outdoor playspace for infant/toddlers, preschoolers, and children who come after school. The programs provide plenty of time for free play, both inside and outside, as well as time for directed, intentional learning. Each week there is a designated theme, such as pollination or shapes and colors, which the children explore in different ways. Fun, imagination and discovery guide the curriculum and the teachers have the freedom to respond to the children’s specific interests. The programs also include a weekly visit from Miss Candice Graham of Wolfeboro Academy of Music for songs, instrument play and rhythm games and a monthly visit from a staffer at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center who brings an animal to the Center for a lesson on a specific topic, such as defense mechanisms or nocturnal creatures.
The Center employs experienced, caring teachers and has excellent teacher-child ratios. We pride ourselves on keeping our ratios below the state requirements, which means that we have fewer children with each teacher. Most importantly, the teachers really enjoy working with young children and delight in watching them discover, grow, create and learn.
Three Different Programs
The Center has separate curricula, classrooms and outdoor playspace for infant/toddlers, preschoolers, and children who come after school. The programs provide plenty of time for free play, both inside and outside, as well as time for directed, intentional learning. Each week there is a designated theme, such as pollination or shapes and colors, which the children explore in different ways. Fun, imagination and discovery guide the curriculum and the teachers have the freedom to respond to the children’s specific interests. The programs also include a weekly visit from Miss Candice Graham of Wolfeboro Academy of Music for songs, instrument play and rhythm games and a monthly visit from a staffer at Squam Lakes Natural Science Center who brings an animal to the Center for a lesson on a specific topic, such as defense mechanisms or nocturnal creatures.
The Center employs experienced, caring teachers and has excellent teacher-child ratios. We pride ourselves on keeping our ratios below the state requirements, which means that we have fewer children with each teacher. Most importantly, the teachers really enjoy working with young children and delight in watching them discover, grow, create and learn.
Community Involvement
Sandwich Children's Center benefits greatly from its location in the community of Sandwich. The townspeople care about the children at the Center, and we have many volunteers when we ask for assistance, whether it's winterizing the Center's porch windows or replacing the bog bridges on the Red Hill Pond Trail, which begins just across the road from the Center and is a favorite hike of the children's. Volunteers, including many parents, also freely and frequently share their skills with the children, from woodworking to art, music and yoga.
The children gain much from the community and also give back to it. Each winter, the preschoolers snowshoe to the nearby Doris L. Benz Community Center to have lunch and sing songs with the senior citizens who reside in senior housing near the Benz. Our May Day Celebration finds the children making baskets of flowers and then tiptoeing up to nearby seniors' homes to leave a touch of spring on their doorsteps.
Topped off with an energetic and involved Board of Directors, Sandwich Children's Center is an excellent resource for families in the area and a great choice for parents who want an early-learning center experience for their children. Come check us out -- we think you'll be glad you did.
Karyn Ames,
Director
(603) 284-7014
The children gain much from the community and also give back to it. Each winter, the preschoolers snowshoe to the nearby Doris L. Benz Community Center to have lunch and sing songs with the senior citizens who reside in senior housing near the Benz. Our May Day Celebration finds the children making baskets of flowers and then tiptoeing up to nearby seniors' homes to leave a touch of spring on their doorsteps.
Topped off with an energetic and involved Board of Directors, Sandwich Children's Center is an excellent resource for families in the area and a great choice for parents who want an early-learning center experience for their children. Come check us out -- we think you'll be glad you did.
Karyn Ames,
Director
(603) 284-7014
