Links & Resources
- Forms I use: My Day Report, Weekly Program Plan, The Daycare Lady forms
- ParentsandProviders.com has a great directory of day homes in Canada. They also provide forums for day home providers to communicate and exchange ideas. (If the link is broken, try this one.)
- Monthly curriculums you can order: Funshine Express, Mother Goose Time, Adventures in Learning, Star-Brite Learning, World of Wonder, and High Reach Learning.
- Free Curriculums: Pamm's House, Hubbard's Cupboard, Preschool by Stormie, Danielle's Place, A-Rhyme-A-Week, Perpetual Preschool, Everything Preschool, Enchanted Learning, Preschool by Stormie, Super Teacher Worksheets, Scholastic and First School. Prekinders
- Dayhome advertising and referrals: Free places to go look for Edmonton Dayhomes or to advertise your own dayhome. Parents and Providers Directory, Kijiji, OLX, Classified Edmonton, Make a free website, Used Edmonton, and Edmonton and Area Dayhome Providers Facebook group.
- Cool Daycare & Kid Decor: Great pics of ideas
- Online Canadian Catalogues for supplies, toys or decor: Sears.ca, Added Touch, Education Station, Oriental Trading, Stacks And Stacks (click Canadian checkout when you order), and for other places that have Canadian checkouts see Borderfree. Rose Delta also sells a lot of daycare stuff, but their ordering is all done by fax.
- Local Affordable Places to shop for kids items: Zellers, Superstore, Walmart, ToysRUs, Ikea, Costco, Jysk, Goodwill, Salvation Army, Once Upon a Child, Pigtails and Giant Tiger.
- Fun places to go: Chuck E. Cheese, Westmount Centre has some children's rides in the food court, Toddler Time at West Ed Waterpark, Woodcroft Library, Valley Zoo.
- Speech Resources: ASL for Babies, Edmonton Early Intervention, KidsHealth: Delayed Speech
- Local Conferences & Workshops: Alberta Early Years every October.