Good question, Cassandra! This will be fun to follow what everyone's ideas and schedules are.
I follow our local school district calendar for days off. I take off summers and all school holidays and breaks. The reason I do that is I am a preschool program first, but I offer extended hours for working parents. That means I take off all the regular holidays that businesses take off plus Christmas break (winter break) and Spring break, etc. I don't take off days that children are out due to parent teacher conferences and other activities where teachers need to be to work. I have school teacher parents in my program, so I cater to that schedule. I know others who work all holidays and all breaks, but they give themself a 1 week vacation somewhere in there. I need my breaks, so I take off more days than most.
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DeAnn Jones
Co-Facilitator for the Family Child Care Interest Forum
Discovery Place Preschool, LLC
Stanwood, WA 98292
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-01-2020 04:50 PM
From: Cassandra Johnson
Subject: Calendar for Certified Family
I'm working on developing the yearly calendar for our Certified Family ChildCare, and I was wondering how other family childcare facilities schedule in their breaks throughout the year. I know that several here in OR have a specific summer and winter break week where they close the facility. Is this common for other places? How do you choose what weeks you close?
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Cassandra Johnson
OR Certified Family Childcare
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