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How questions lead to learning in inquiry based classrooms and other child care services

Questions Lead to Learning in Inquiry Based Classrooms

When you are looking for high-quality pre-K in the Trumbull and Bridgeport areas, schedule a tour of Strong Start Day Care to learn about our great learning center. We take children, from infants to pre-K.  Our pre-K, as all our classes, uses an inquiry-based curriculum. This is a system of teaching that utilizes a child’s…

Snow day ideas and other child care solutions

Snow Day Ideas!

Strong Start Learning Center serves the Trumbull and Bridgeport areas providing high-quality daycare and pre-K using an inquiry-based curriculum. An inquiry-based curriculum is a form of learning that uses children’s natural question-asking nature to teach them to solve problems and come up with scenarios to test. Since we just got around ten inches of snow…

Preparing your child for the future with child care solutions in Sheldon

Teaching for the Future

Strong Start Early Learning Center is an Early Care and Education Center providing high-quality care for children in the Trumbull and Bridgeport area. We support emotional, physical, and cognitive growth for all the children in our care through a curriculum that is centered on early childhood development. Our curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach to teaching.…

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On the Importance of Daydreaming

Here at Strong Start, we like to stay up to date on the latest thought and research about education and educational psychology, so we can better assist your children on a day-to-day basis with learning in the most effective ways. A recent article on KQED News entitled Why Daydreaming is Critical to Effective Learning, got…

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Why Day Care is Best for Your Infant

Now that your bundle of joy has arrived, you have to make several necessary arrangements, and child care is likely one of the main concerns. Approximately 60% of new mothers are in the workforce and will return to work once they have reached the end of their maternity leave. Somehow people have fallen for the…

How Early Childhood Education Becomes the Foundation for a Life of Learning

Your child’s early childhood education will become the foundation of their educational experience throughout their life. That’s why we place so much emphasis on creating a positive, successful for the child in our early childhood education program in Trumbull! We want to teach young children to have a love of learning, so they can be…

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Home Activities For Your Toddler

Ah, the toddler years. They’re fun, but they’re busy years! Toddlers have a natural yearning to explore anything and everything, which is why they seem to be non-stop. And just when you think you’ve finally found an activity that will keep your toddler occupied so you can get some things done around the house, your…

Inquiry-based learning: asking questions

Inquiry-based Learning: Asking Questions

Strong Start Child Early Care and Education is dedicated to an early childhood education that is inquiry-based because we believe that learning from the inside-out creates life-long learners that are successful problem solvers and are emotionally secure.   Some education methods see children merely as sponges to take in information that will be used later,…

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Preparing To Send Your Infant To Day Care

No matter how much you try to prepare for life with an infant by reading blogs, online forums, articles, books, and listening to everyone’s advice—it’s just not possible. Life with an infant is an experience that is different for every family due to every household’s unique situations. Adjusting to life with an infant is more…

Inquiry-based Learning: Data Collection

Welcome back to our blog series on inquiry-based learning. Strong Start Early Care and Education is dedicated to providing an early childhood education that will help your child become an inquisitive-minded child who will be secure in their ability to learn and solve problems. We use an inquiry-based curriculum from the earliest ages to reach…

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