Our daycare programs include

• group daycare, for children aged 3 - 5

Open all year except statutory holidays from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Daycare for Surrey, BC - Our Daycare Supervisor, Arceli Llanes, has been lovingly satisfying the needs of our little ones since 1993!

While the daycare staff are not all trained in the Montessori method, and the daycare does not include all the learning materials, the philosophy of encouraging independence, grace and courtesy and curiosity, all in a loving and comfortable atmosphere, is consistent with the Montessori classrooms.

Many of the daycare children spend half their day, either the morning or the afternoon, in a Primary Montessori classroom, and the rest of the day in the daycare setting. The daycare program includes

• Stories, singing
• Theme, science activities
• Crafts and creative expression
• Field trips

* Daycare Handbook *

Staff

Arceli Llanes
Daycare Supervisor Originally from the Philippines, where she earned her B.Sc. in Elementary education, Arceli taught elementary school, with her husband, in Brunei for twelve years before coming to Canada. She froze in Winnipeg for two years, working in a daycare centre, then moved to warmer B.C., where she joined us at Roots & Wings in 1993. Arceli holds her Early Childhood Education Certificate for B.C. And in case she needed any more experience, she has raised four children of her own, now in their twenties and thirties. Our children are very much blessed by Arceli’s caring and innovative programming in our daycare centre.

Grace Salceda
Daycare Assistant A mainstay in our daycare since 2004, Grace is a favourite for our students and parents. Prior to joining us, she worked for five years with young children, including nanny, special needs worker, out-of-school care worker and preschool teacher. She then took time to grow her own family. She holds her B.SC in computer science, her Early Childhood Education Certification, and a Childsafe Certificate. Grace can be heard strumming the guitar as she sings with our children, or outside school time, singing in a choir or playing the piano. If you need a Filipino translator, she’s a second option to Arceli!

Ruby Wei
Daycare Assistant Ruby is another very welcome face in our daycare. Adding Mandarin to the list of languages spoken in our centre, Ruby holds her Early Childhood and Preschool Education Certificate from Jiangsu Province, China, where she taught a class of 42 preschoolers and published articles in their journal. In Canada, Ruby has taught preschool in Richmond, and has taught Mandarin to children ages 4 – 7 in Burnaby and Vancouver. We’re enjoying Ruby’s son, Kevin in our Extended Day program.