It started with twelve children and a waiting list
Tiny Treasures did not begin as a business plan. It began in 2012 with one person looking after a few children properly, and grew every time somebody else asked whether there was room.
To nurture the whole child by creating a safe, loving and supportive place where every child feels valued, respected and capable.
In practice that means two commitments that are easy to write and hard to keep. The first is emotional: we teach self-regulation and how to be with other people through Conscious Discipline, which starts with how the adults in the room behave. The second is academic: the Frog Street curriculum, running the whole way from the infant room to Pre-K.
Blending the two is the actual job. A child who cannot manage a big feeling cannot learn a letter sound, and a child who is only managed and never taught leaves unprepared. We are trying to send children to kindergarten who are both ready and steady.
How the two fit together
Thirteen years, three times
- 2012
A registered home program
Tiny Treasures started in August 2012 as a small registered child care program run out of a home. A handful of children and one person who wanted to do it properly.
- Then
A licensed group family program
Word traveled and the waiting list did not stop. It became a licensed group family child care, caring for twelve children under five every day, which is as large as that kind of program is allowed to be.
- Now
A licensed center in Great River
Outgrowing that meant either turning families away or building something bigger. The current center is licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services and holds four rooms, from six weeks old to the year before kindergarten.
Check us, and check everybody else
Tiny Treasures Early Learning Center is licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. That means inspections, standards for staffing and space, background checks, and a public record.
New York publishes that record. You can look up any licensed program in the state, see its inspection history and read what was found. We would rather you did that for every center on your list, including this one, than take anybody’s website at its word.
Look up a program with the state- RegulatorNYS OCFS
- Caring for children since2012
- Where3500 Sunrise Highway, Great River, NY 11739
- OpenMonday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM
The same faces, day after day
Qualified, trained early childhood staff, and, as much as any center can manage it, the same people in the same room.
Consistency is not a soft benefit. In an infant room it is most of the job: a baby learns that the world is safe by finding out that the same hands arrive every time. In a toddler room it is why the routine works. In Pre-K it is why a child will tell a teacher that something happened at home.
On a visit, ask to meet the people who would be in your child’s room rather than just the director. Any center worth choosing will say yes.
Come and see the rooms
The only way to really judge a center is to stand in it. Tell us your child’s age and roughly when you need to start, and we will find you a time.