Licensed Childcare Services | Home Daycare Provider

What Can I Expect?

Hop, Skip, & Jump Home Daycare has been in operation since 2009

As a licensed home daycare provider, I offer home-based childcare for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. With over 14 years of experience, parents can trust that their child(ren) will receive the best care possible in a safe and nurturing environment.

Daycare Philosophy

This Home Daycare provides a comfortable home setting in which your child will build a foundation for socialization, emotional growth, intellectual ability, and physical maturation

At this age, children are meeting new challenges as fast as they come. Crawling, walking, and eventually running are levels they all accomplish in what seems like a blink of an eye. Children learn best if they are in a stimulating environment. Here your child will have fun in my play-based environment, using their imaginations to create and explore. The daily activities will reflect a healthy balance between play and rest, active and quiet times, structured group times, individual activities, and of course, appropriate affectionate adult-child interactions.

I provide a safe environment as a licensed childcare provider for child development in a clean, bright, caring, and child-friendly home. This home-based childcare will provide the opportunity for children to develop independence, creativity and cooperation, good manners and respect for others, with lots of individual care and attention for your child(ren).

Smoke Free Ontario Act

The Smoke-Free Ontario Act, 2017 prohibits smoking of tobacco, use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to vape any substance, and smoking of cannabis (medical or recreational), in enclosed workplaces, enclosed public places, and other designated areas in Ontario. The purpose of the act is to protect workers and the public from second-hand smoke and vapour.

Smoking and vaping are strictly prohibited in child care centers and places where home child care is provided (as defined in the Child Care & Early Years Act, 2014). The entire premises must be smoke and vape-free at all times, regardless of whether children are present or not.

In the case of home daycare, smoking anywhere on the entire premises is strictly prohibited, whether children are present or not.

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Licensed Home Daycare

This is a home-based childcare program that is licensed by the Government of Ontario. To ensure quality, all licensed childcare settings must meet the standards set out under the Child Care and Early Years Act, 2014 (CCEYA).

Please note that this home daycare is not peanut-free, and therefore, it is unable to accept children with life-threatening allergies. Additionally, the daycare only offers full-time childcare for five days a week, from Monday to Friday. At this time, the daycare is not accepting subsidies, and it does not accommodate school-aged children.

My agency, Natural Connections Childcare, is currently in the process of becoming a part of the Provincially Funded CWELCC Program in Leeds & Grenville (no timeline available).

Police checks and references are available upon request, and I am First Aid and CPR-C certified.

About Angela Wood

I'm a mother of two children who started my home-based childcare program in 2009. Over the years, my children have grown accustomed to daycare being a part of their daily lives and have become great with the children I've cared for. I've been involved in various programs with children in our church, ranging in age from 6 months to 18+ years since my son was born in 2006.

From June 2007 to November 2008, my family and I lived in Malawi, Africa, where we served as the "National Directors and Administrator" for the Village of Hope Malawi Trust, an orphanage in Lilongwe. After returning from Malawi, I wanted to continue working with children and decided to start my home daycare, which I had always wanted to do.

Since 2017, I've been a licensed childcare home daycare provider, licensed by Natural Connections Childcare, and I follow all rules and regulations from the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, Leeds & Grenville Health Unit, and my agency, including child-to-provider ratios.