Creating a Community of Learners
Our Story
Marcela Saenz | Founder and Director.
I am Marcela Saenz, this is my story: Colombian dentist, married with three beautiful children: Andres, Mia and Ivy.
I decided to start my journey in Early Childhood Education in 2015 by being the owner of Dias Mágicos Day home.
My academic preparation began here, where I graduated with honors in early childhood education and fell in love with children's learning processes.
Additionally, I completed several child psychology certifications so that I could devote myself to the little ones.
"I believe all children deserve quality education, with attention to small details, and we should encourage that our children feel safe and loved. That is why I chose to dedicate myself to early education, because I believe it is the foundation for success in life."
Our Philosophy
Our Mission is to provide all children with a safe and secure learning environment where they can freely explore and express themselves. Our goal is to ensure that our children have enriching learning and appropriate care that are vital to their growth and development.
At Magic Days Learning Centre, we understand that children learn in different ways and at different paces. Prepared environments are ideal classrooms since curiosity, stability and freedom of choice encourage a love of learning.
Early education serves as a stepping stone to a successful life.
This guides our holistic approach to children's learning and well-being.
The development of these five skills are the heart of our philosophy: Artistic, Cognitive, Communicative, Corporal, Personal-Social.
The game as a learning constructor
Curriculum
Artistic
Art is the capacity of human beings to create, express, appreciate, and be sensitive through multiple languages that allow us to learn, transform, represent, and interpret the environment and the culture in which it is already reflected.
Areas of Development: Communication, creativity and corporeality.
Goal: Potentiate in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment making use of the various expressive languages.
Objective: Enable experiences that develop the expressive, creative, aesthetic, perceptive, sensitive and socio-emotional
Cognitive
Cognitive development allows us to understand the processes and elements that intervene in the structuring of thought and the ways through which human beings build knowledge. In cognitive development, a first key aspect has to do with four basic mental functions: perception, attention, representation of mental models and memory.
Areas of Development: Communication, creativity and corporeality.
Goal: Potentiate in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment by using the various expressive languages.
Objective: Enable experiences that allow the representation of thought, hypothesis formulation, formulation of questions and answers to different situations, to understand their reality.
Communicative
Strengthen in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment using the various expressive languages.
Areas of Development: Communication, creativity and corporeality.
Goal: Potentiate in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment by using the various expressive languages.
Bodily
It is based on the bodily experience of the subjects, as well as on the relationships that they can establish through the body with others and with the environment.
Areas of Development: Communication and creativity.
Goal: Potentiate in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment by using the various expressive languages.
Objective: Enable experiences that lead to the recognition of the body as a means of interaction with others and the environment, rescuing the importance of self-care, to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Personal-Social
The personal social dimension promotes the development of happy and participative children who establish and maintain harmonious relationships, with positive concepts about themselves, who can identify the needs of others and put themselves in their place, as well as recognize their strengths and weaknesses, respect and assume shared norms, but that they can also express their opinions, seek to be recognized and assert their rights.
Areas of Development: Communication, creativity and corporeality.
Goal: Potentiate in children from 19 months to 5 years old the ability to wonder about what surrounds them, as well as enrich their experiences to establish calm affective relationships with themselves, with others and with the environment using the various expressive languages.
Objective: Enable experiences aimed at the development of self-schemas, which facilitate the recognition of oneself as a participatory subject, in the personal, family and school spheres.
Story Telling
Teacher reading to toddlers Children understand their world through narrative and play, which means that Story Time may be a child’s most powerful learning experience. Story Time is such a powerful tool because it builds language learning and literacy abilities, alongside cognitive and social-emotional development.
To promote Story Time, our Daycare will get a selection of books that are curated to fit the specific needs of each age group.
Along with the books, there will be classroom activities specifically to go with each book. These activities illustrate how to read each book in a manner that develops language and literacy skills, plus activities that engage different developmental domains.
