YMCA Of The Northwoods - Rhinelander, WI

Welcome! Choosing quality childcare is one of the most important decisions you will make in your child’s life. The impact of your decision will determine their future. We believe that children are society’s most precious resource. We support parents and strive to be an extension of your family. By emphasizing the YMCA’s core values of respect, responsibility, honesty, and caring, we hope that through our partnership, we can help your child meet with success on his/her own level. Your child is a unique person with individual needs, interests, and abilities. We look forward to working with you and your family.

The Children’s Learning Center has been serving children ages 6 weeks to 12 years of age, in the Northwoods area for over 23 years. Our goal is to provide a unique, positive, educational and recreational experience for all children. We believe that the early years have a profound influence on a child’s personality, physical, intellectual and creative potential, self-esteem and sense of well being.

Nurturing and supporting healthy socio-emotional development is one of our most important jobs. Young children need to learn to trust others, express themselves in acceptable ways and gain independence and self-control. Teachers/caregivers foster trust by interacting warmly with children, providing a consistent, well balanced daily routine, modeling and guiding behavior and providing individualized attention and opportunities to socialize with peers and older/younger children.

Children learn through active exploration of their environment. We use a developmental “hands-on” approach to learning: We provide space, time and materials so that children can make choices and explore, experiment, question, create and express themselves.

We view every experience in daily living as a learning opportunity. We use the children’s interests and experiences and the teachers’ knowledge of developmental stages to create the curriculum in each classroom. Units and themes provide a rich variety of experiences for self-expression sensory exploration of the natural and physical surroundings, intellectual stimulation, large and small motor activities, social interaction and opportunities to hear and use language.

Click here to download the In House Children's Learning Center Handbook in Adobe Acrobat format. (PDF)

Also, for more information you can visit the YMCA Childcare page.