12.5 Unit 12 Flash Cards

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Child Care Center

Back 1

Is a facility in which a staff of adults provides care for children

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In home care

Back 2

Is provided to many young children from a caregiver who comes to their home

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Family child care

Back 3

Takes place in the caregivers home

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Accreditation

Back 4

Means that the child care provider has met strict official standards for quality child care

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Play group

Back 5

Is an arrangement in which parents take turns caring for one another's children in their own homes

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Nanny

Back 6

Is a person trained to provide child care

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License

Back 7

Is a registration with the state that indicates child care provides meet health and safety standards

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Parent Cooperative

Back 8

Co- op is child care that is provided by the parents of the children in the co-op

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Head Start

Back 9

Is a program that provides locally run child care facilities designed to help lower income and disadvantaged children from birth to five years of age become ready for school

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Learning Center

Back 10

Is an area designed for certain allow certain types of play and learning

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Circle Time

Back 11

Is when the children share their experience in show and tell or listen to a story together

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Free play

Back 12

Is a time when children can choose any activity they want

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Transition

Back 13

Is a period during which children move from one activity to the next