Cupcake Motto
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"Here's to Happy Families and Sweet Success!"
Our name is pretty unique! You're probably wondering what does a Cupcake have to do with babysitting kids? Well, who doesn't love a delicious, cute, and sweet little cupcake!

Much like cupcakes, our babysitters in training are sweet and cute! Bringing joy and happiness to children and families, just like a cupcake! Everyone loves a cupcake or two and families love babysitters who are educated, loving, caring, and trustworthy! 
The smile that a cupcakes gives to child will be the same smile that you will receive from children in your care. You are an important asset to families.

What will we Learn
The Cupcake Babysitter Training Short Course educates on the importance of care giving and understanding the science and methodology of early childhood education for children and servicing families. This highly interactive course provides information on creating fun, age-appropriate activities using the learning through play theory, learning how to create fun and easy lesson planning, scheduling, and learning about foundational learning. This is course not all lecture, but an active learning hands-on creative experience. In this way, sitters will mirror the learning experience here at Cupcake Babysitter with the future children they engage with.  


Student will engage, create, and explore different fun creative art activities, games, and other fun ideas to implement in their babysitting business.  Having these elements in the student's babysitting business can create a 
long-running customer base, family engagement, promote child development, and let's not forget be the coolest babysitter in the neighborhood! 

Learning Objective: Students will learn, explore, create, and analyze:
-  Fun, age-appropriate activities using the learning through play theory, learning how to create fun and easy lesson planning, scheduling, and learning about foundational learning.
- A variety of developmentally appropriate activities and teaching strategies to promote the physical development
-Cognition- and variety of developmentally appropriate activities and teaching strategies to promote curiosity, reasoning and problem solving to lay foundation for all later learning 
-High quality learning environments utilizing the physical space and materials, daily schedule and routines to create a secure, interesting and enjoyable environment and promotes engagement, play, exploration and learning of all children

 BREAK (15mins) lunch break - Please prepare beforehand  small snack or light lunch. Students may leave off camera and comeback to the Zoom class after the break. Then, instructor will resume the course. 

Schedule:
All Things Learning Through Play
Module 1 (Part 1):
What is Foundational learning, Cognitive Development, and Learning Through Play Theory

Module 1 (Part2):
Using a Lesson Plan system and learning to time manage 

Module 2 (Part 2): Sprinkle Dinkle Babysitting Fun (Explore age appropriate activities, learn how to create
easy peasy lesson plans, create fun lessons and activities) 

Module 2: (part 3)CupCake Create Project: This project will be a fun and creative project it serves as an assessment and for students to create what they've learned from the course. Art supplies will be need during this time.

Trainees taking this course will receive their babysitting certification after the course  This course is great for those who would like to get started immediately educating and building their childcare business or expand the student's knowledgebase for those who have an existing babysitting business. This class will meet one time for 2hrs and 15 mins  (15mins of our course is the lunch break off camera). 

Class Enrollment: Must have at least 6 students enrolled in the course. 
If there are less than 6 the class will be canceled. 

***Templates will be used in this course. Students will need to download the template or have access to the PDF and converted into a MS Word or Google Doc if a printer is not available or any platform that creates the document fillable.