Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart
1.
General requirement.
The applicant must develop a written child care program plan,
and the license holder must see that it is carried out. The child care program
plan must:
A. mandate that children
have supervision at all times;
B.
describe the age categories and number of children to be served by the
program;
C. describe the days and
hours of operation of the program;
D. describe the general educational methods
to be used by the program and the religious, political, or philosophical basis,
if any;
E. be developed and
evaluated in writing annually by a staff person qualified as a teacher under
part
9503.0032;
F. have stated goals and objectives to
promote the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development of the
children in each age category in part
9503.0005, subpart
2, for which care is
provided;
G. specify activities
designed to promote the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional
development of a child in a manner consistent with the child's cultural
background;
H. specify that the
intellectual, physical, social, and emotional progress of each child be
documented in the child's record and conveyed to the parent during the
conferences specified in part
9503.0090, subpart
2;
I. provide a daily schedule for both indoor
and outdoor activities;
J. provide
for activities that are both quiet and active, teacher directed and child
initiated;
K. provide for a variety
of activities that require the use of varied equipment and materials;
and
L. be available to parents for
review on request.
Subp.
2.
Interest areas.
A child care program that operates for more than three hours a
day must provide daily access to interest areas of the center that are supplied
with the equipment and materials needed to carry out the activities specified
in items A to H, except that a child care program serving only school-age
children and operating for less than 90 consecutive calendar days or any
program operating for less than three hours a day must provide each child with
daily access to indoor or outdoor large muscle activities specified in item G
and at least five of the following interest areas:
A. creative arts and crafts;
B. construction;
C. dramatic or practical life
activities;
D. science;
E. music;
F. fine motor activities;
G. large muscle activities; or
H. sensory stimulation activities.
