Tiny Hoppers opened its doors in Riverside South in 2005. We have expanded to become one of the largest daycares in the Ottawa Region with 6 locations (Riverside South, Kanata Bridlewood, Orleans, Rockland, Barrhaven and Kanata North) and hundreds of children. We take pride in being selected as one of Ottawa's Best! The Tiny Hoppers* curriculum is based on the 4-Blocks Literacy Model. These four blocks include Guided Reading, Self-Selected Reading, Writing, and Working with Words. During a regular Hopper day, the children are lead through a routine including daily passwords, morning messages, sign in centres, circle time learning bins, and attendance cards. Literacy is taught through a variety of carefully chosen games, songs, and activities that provide children with an active and fun learning experience. All of our educational centres are carefully planned to provide children with an exciting hands-on learning experience that touch on activities in all areas of learning including math, science, literacy, and the arts. Hopper teachers must attend a yearly training course that is designed to teach them how most effectively to teach literacy to young children and how to best promote literacy in their classrooms. Our curriculum is theme based which helps us to focus our learning activities on themes and activities that the children find most interesting. Although the Tiny Hoppers* curriculum is carefully laid out in detail, teachers are encouraged to enhance their program with additional activities based on the individual needs and interests of the children in their group. These new activities and ideas are then shared with all Hopper staff, across the city, through a private teacher Blog which is a resource that our teachers use to come up with new and exciting ideas for their classrooms. At Hoppers we work as a team to make sure that we provide the most exciting, energetic, and fun learning environment for your child.
