A Call for Excellence in Early Childhood Education

Each April, child care providers across the country rally together to ask the community to celebrate the young child and recognize high quality early experiences that make a difference in children’s lifelong academic and social success.

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3 from 11:00am-1:00pm, Indiana child care providers, advocates and organizations will declare April as the Month of the Young Child. The rally will celebrate providers who have moved up a level on Indiana’s Paths to QUALITY rating scale as well as recognize legislators who champion policy to support Indiana children and their families.

The rally will take place in the North Atrium (Ohio Street side) of the Indiana Statehouse Rotunda.  Please join the

Please join the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children in the call for excellence in early childhood education .

It’s a girl for Day Nursery Center Director!

Congratulations to Day Nursery Northwest Center Director Marla Segal and her husband on the birth of their first child, Norah Diane Segal, born today, April 1 at 11:15 AM. She is 7 pounds 20.5 inches. Everyone is doing fine!

Day Nursery Hendricks County Blue Friday

Avon Center

Avon Center

Avon Center

Avon Center

The staff and students of the Day Nursery Hendricks County Early Care and Education Center in Avon say “Go Colts!!”

Colts Blue Friday

Our Avon Center cook is a good sport! Mr. Darius, who usually cheers for Houston or Dallas, is ready for Colts Blue Friday today thanks to his wardrobe consultant, Center Director Joy McCall.

Day Nursery Indianapolis 500 Festivities

Hendricks Co. Early Care & Education Center in Avon

On parade around the downtown Federal Center

Indiana State Government Center

Indy 500 Safety crew member visited Start Smart 4 Children at Ft. Harrison

Northwest Center

IU Health Center

Ruth A. Lilly Center

Day Nursery Auxiliary Style Show this Friday

We hope to see you this Friday, October 7 at the Oak Hill Mansion in Carmel for the Day Nursery Auxiliary’s annual Luncheon and Style Show fundraiser. A limited number of tickets are still available. If you need more information, check out the Auxiliary’s website.

We’re open!

In case you are wondering…all Day Nursery centers are open this morning. Stay warm and please drive carefully!

Day Nursery students help Read for the Record

Today 18 children in the  three-year-old and Pre-K classrooms at the Day Nursery Ruth A. Lilly Center on Central Avenue did their part to help create a new world record for the most people reading the same book on the same day when they participated in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record. Miss Sara and Miss Caroline read lots of books in their classroom every day so they were excited about participating in this national record. Jumpstart, the sponsor of the event is working to raise awareness about the important role that reading has in shaping a child’s life as well as showcasing their effort to make sure every child has a chance to succeed in classrooms every day. Presented in partnership with Pearson Education, this fifth-annual celebration of reading and learning encourages everyone – children and adults – to come together to set a new world record for the number of people reading the same classic children’s book on the same day. Last year, more than 2.1 million people took part in Jumpstart’s Read for the Record Campaign.  If you would like to participate today, you can click here to read the official book of Jumpstart’s 2010 Read for the Record Campaign—Ezra Jack Keats’ The Snowy Day—right now, online for free. When you’re done, you can quickly and immediately certify your participation. As soon as totals are in, Jumpstart will even send you a note confirming the day’s record-breaking total! Thanks to Day Nursery Center Director Shannon Garrity for sharing these pictures taken at her center this morning.

Make Indy Count

Today is Census Day. That’s no joke.  Make Indy Count today by returning your form. 

When you fill out the census form, you’re making a statement about what resources our community needs going forward.

Accurate data reflecting changes in your community are crucial in apportioning seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and deciding how more than $400 billion per year is allocated for projects like new hospitals and schools. 

That’s more than $4 trillion over a 10-year period for things like new roads and schools, and services like job training centers.

As of 2006, the census data told us that 57 percent of mothers work outside of the home.  Statistics like this help community leaders plan for services needed in our city.

If you need more reasons why, check out the 2010 Census website full of good information.

Day Nursery centers are open

All Day Nursery centers are open this morning.  Drive safely!