Day Nursery Indianapolis Friday Faces

Preschool 4 students and teacher Ms Tyler getting silly celebrating Hat Day at the Day Nursery Early Learning Center in Avon.

Day Nursery Hendricks County July 4th Fun

Shannon exploring jello

Adeleigh making jello with Ms. Marla

Anna on parade

Damian painting

Mia and Adeleigh getting ready for a parade

Hope you had a great holiday weekend.  Thanks to Center Director Joy McCall for sharing these pictures of their red, white and blue fun at the Day Nursery Hendricks County Early Care and Education Center in Avon.

Stranger Danger Lesson comes to Avon center

Olivia demonstrates some martial arts moves.

Fifty preschoolers at the Day Nursery Hendricks County Early Care and Education Center in Avon participated in a Stranger Danger program today at their center.  The program was taught by Olivia Roney of Crouching Tigers.  The interactive program allows children to learn about stranger awareness in a fun, safe, active and educational way. Olivia wants parents to know that the most important part of this program has a lot of do with parent followup at home.  She sent a letter home with each student suggesting that parents have periodic chats with their child to find out how they would react to a situation with a stranger.  She suggests that parents tell their child to pretend the parent is a stranger and then try to entice them with candy, toys and animals.  In her Stranger Danger program, Olivia instructs the children to loudly yell “No Way!” and run away if a stranger approaches a child. When Olivia was four years old, a real stranger tried to bribe her into a car by saying there was a puppy in the back seat.  Luckily Olivia’s Mother had taught her a valuable lesson when she was young and she put the plan into action. Olivia has donated around 150 hours a year sharing her knowledge with preschoolers in this program.

Lukas shows how it is done.

Preschool 1 & 2 getting warmed up

A student from the Preschool I class shows Olivia he was paying attention to her lesson.

Adam shows Olivia what he learned in her class.

Day Nursery Openings

As elementary, middle and high school children head back to classes, many parents think about enrolling their preschool or young children in a full day program.  Day Nursery has openings for various ages in several of our centers.  Please call the center you are interested in for the most up-to-date openings:

• Downtown: Day Nursery Federal Center 226-5487 at 575 N. Pennsylvania Street has openings for children ages 3, 4 and 5
• Downtown: Day Nursery State Center at 100 N. Senate, N150 233-1776 has openings for two year olds, and preschool 4 and 5 year olds
• Downtown: Day Clarian 283-3838at 21st & Senate has openings for 3 year olds
• Northside: Day Nursery Ruth A. Lilly Center 926-1203 at 3522 N. Central has openings for 3, 4 & 5 year olds and anticipates having openings for 2 year olds in September
• Northwest: Our brand new center in Park 100 (which will replace our center near 56th and Guion Roads) is scheduled to open Tuesday, August 25.  It will be located at 5735 W. 73rd Street. We are currently accepting new enrollments for this center for toddlers, 2 1/2 year olds and preschoolers through age 5. For more information call 291-8048.
• Northeast: Our Start Smart 4 Children Center 377-7015 has a few openings for 4 year olds.  The center is located at Ft. Harrison.
• Hendricks County: Day Nursery Avon 271-2603 at 1351 N. Ronald Reagan Parkway on the campus of Clarian West Medical Center has openings for infants, as well as two year olds.  We also have  preschool openings for 4 and 5 year olds