At little Minds Learning Center it is our mission to provide a premier child development experience that is both educational and affordable.

Our facilities are part child care, child development, and preschool and are certified for children 6 weeks to 6 years that offer you a premier child development experience. Little Minds Learning Centers are now serving the communities of Hudson, WI and River Falls, WI. On December 1, 2011, we will open the doors on a brand new facility service the communities of Onalaska and LaCrosse, WI!
The center’s founder, Stacy Barnhardt lives in Wisconsin, and has two of her five children enrolled in the Hudson center. Our teachers are all certified in by the state and possess and/or are pursuing degrees in early child hood, elementary, science, music education, or other related fields.

The Experience Little Mind Learning Center Provides

To ensure our children and parents have a premier experience, we use standards based curriculum developed by High Reach. We have cipher-lock entry, computer log in, and redundancies built into the classroom to ensure we know exactly where your little one at all times. We provide a secure log in to the center’s closed circuit television camera system, so our parents can check in on their little one(s) throughout the day. We serve whole foods that are cooked on site by a food and nutrition specialist. If you see chicken nuggets on our menu, our nutrition specialist has cut the chicken, breaded it, and baked it on site.
We have many methods of communicating with our parents regarding the center, current initiatives, and the progress their little one are making towards the goals that the teachers and parents agree to focus on; as we weave their individual goals into the day to day curriculum for all children 6 weeks to 6 years. We offer Baby Sign Language, Baby Yoga, Spanish as an additional language, science labs, diagnostically driven/parent contracted goals for teaching, and a plethora of teachings styles, strategies, and equipment to aid in the education process. It is our belief that early childhood development should be a balance of teacher supported learning, the natural learning that occur when children interact and discover, and a solid contract between parents and teachers in a partnership in developing your little ones.

Children’s Personal Supplies

We ask that our families provided a change of clothing, and personal need items unless otherwise indicated. Little Minds Learning Center will provide all necessary supplies and equipment to create a premiere experience for you and your little one(s). LMLC will provide
wipes for infants and toddlers, crib sheets for infants, Target Brand Formula for infants and all food (unless parent chooses other options).

Parents of children 3-6 years old will be asked to supply:

• Seasonally appropriate clothing for outdoor play
• One complete set of extra clothing in case of accidents
• Crib sheet and blanket for rest time
• Optional comfort object for rest time (no noise makers please)

Parents of children 6 weeks to 3 years will be asked to supply:

• Diapers (cloth diapers not permitted)
• Formula (if not using the center supplied formula
• Two pacifiers, if used by infant (labeled clearly with child’s name)
• Two bottles (labeled clearly with child’s name)
• Crib sheet and blanket for rest time (children over 12 months only)
• One complete set of extra clothes in case of accidents
• Seasonally appropriate clothing for outdoor play

Early Morning & Late Afternoon Care

Little Minds Learning Center’s classes start at 8:30 AM and end around 4:00 PM daily. Breakfast will be served daily at 8:30-9:00am; lunch served 11:30-12:30; snacks served at 2:30 and 5:30pm.
Although there will be scheduled activities for the children between the hours of 6am-8:30am and 4:30-7:00pm, the time will not be curriculum based. The children who are dropped off between the hours of 6am-8:30am
will have the option of resting on a cot if they appear to be tired and wish to do so. Children will be provided with structured activities such as coloring, reading, group games, as designed by our teachers.
Children who are at the center between the hours of 4:00-7:00pm will receive a snack, be taken outside on occasion and do similar activities as provided in the morning. Movies may be played on Friday afternoons and
parents will be notified at least one day in advance. All movies will be rated G. No child may be checked into the program for more than 12 hours a day. Any parent violating this rule will be asked to withdraw from the
program. Any parent/ guardian who have not picked up their child by 7:00pm will be subject to late pick up fees.

Meal Information

Little Minds Learning Center focuses on creating healthy and engaging meals for our children that exceed Wisconsin and USDA regulations regarding nutrition.
Given the amount of allergies to nuts, we are a “nut” free facility. Please feel free to check out our menu in the Parent Portal of this website.

The learning based programs we offer:

Infants

• Language Development
• Cause & Effect
• Approaches to Learning
• Phonological Awareness
• Social/Emotional Development
• Creative Arts & Expression
• Yoga
• Baby Sign Language
• Individual Goals, contracted between our teachers and you the parent

Toddlers

• Language Development
• Color Recognition
• Social/Emotional Development
• Creative Arts & Expression
• Phonological Awareness
• Cause & Effect
• Approaches to Learning
• Large/Small Muscle Skills
• Yoga
• Baby Sign Language
• Individual Goals, contracted between our teachers and you the parent

Two’s

• Language Development
• Color Recognition
• Problem Solving
• Social/Emotional Development
• Creative Arts & Expression
• Phonological Awareness
• Shape Recognition
• Cause & Effect
• Approaches to Learning
• Large/Small Muscle Skills
• Spanish
• Science
• Individual Goals, contracted between our teachers and you the parent

Three’s

• Language Development
• Letter & Sound Recognition
• Shape Recognition
• Counting
• Sequencing, Predicting, & Graphing
• Cause & Effect
• Approaches to Learning
• Large/Small Muscle Skills
• Phonological Awareness
• Color Recognition
• Number Recognition
• One-to-one Correspondence
• Problem Solving
• Social/Emotional Development
• Creative Arts & Expression
• Spanish as a second language
• Science
• Individual Goals, contracted between our teachers and you the parent

Pre-Kindergarten

• Language Development
• Letter & Sound Recognition
• Number Concepts
• One-to-one Correspondence
• Estimation
• Cause & Effect
• Approaches to Learning
• Large/Small Muscle Skills
• Phonological Awareness
• Color Recognition
• Number Recognition
• Counting
• Sequencing, Predicting, & Graphing
• Problem Solving
• Social/Emotional Development
• Creative Arts & Expression
• Spanish as a second language
• Science
• Preparation for attendance in the local elementary school kindergarten classes
• Individual Goals, contracted between our teachers and you the parent