Tonya's Lullaby In-Home Care

Our Teachers

Tonya Paige, Provider

Tonya graduated from University of Mn, Morris with an BusinessEconomics major. She has 4 daughters whom has been a huge inspiration in her life. She has always wanted to own her business and provide a service to her community. Immediately, after having her oldest daughter she knew that building a loving, nurturing and safe environment for a child encouraged growth and development in so many ways. She proceeded to open up her own childcare business in 1995, for 17 years. During this time, She not only increased her knowledge base about early education by becoming a member of Mn. Family Childcare Association, African American Adoption Agency, and a Think Small participant she opened up her home to foster special need children. Tonya, completed 40 hours of courses at the William Mitchell Law school in order to become a guardian ad litem for Ramsey County Children Judicial system. This encounter encouraged her to adopt her special need daughter which made her family complete. Tonya took a break from childcare and worked for UPS as an administrative assistant in the department of Business Development for 8yrs and begun to see that her community was in great need of her services again. She moved on to take on an Assistant Center Director’s position for a year and decided that she wanted to provide a more inclusive, intimate and personal relationship with families in her community by re-establishing her childcare business. Tonya believes that a small class environment develops a stronger relationship with children and their families. This gives her the ability to learn more and build a solid foundation for learning for her children.

Philosophy

At my childcare program,I create a safe, nurturing and caring space for the children to explore and learn at their own pace. Tonya’s Lullaby is a place where I teach through a daily routine schedule by providing theme/play-base curriculum based learning each month. Our children will learn through play, music, nutrition, art, math, and literacy to build each child’s own unique learning experience in my care. Tonya’s Lullaby values the way children learn not only in her program but in their culture as well.

Location

We are in the Summit - University area off Lexington and Fuller. Our program provides easy access to nearby Target Store, Como Park, and Selby - Grand shopping stores. Easy access to highway 94 and the Metro green / line train station. We are surrounded by local Jimmy Lee Community Center, Central High school and St. Peter Claver private school. The Rondo Educational Library is walking distance for families to take advantage of all after school programs offered. You will have no problem finding our location in this beautiful St. Paul area.

About our program

Tonya’s Lullaby is filled with fun events to enjoy throughout the year by celebrating birthdays, holidays and special events each month to encourage a learning experience about our children’s culture and families. We are a play-based, theme / structured environment to provide a daily routine learning experience through the interest of the kids. Our program provides math, writing, art, early literacy to develop the skills of each child at their level to invite discovery everyday. Tonya’s Lullaby In-Home Care will be Building Quality care through Parent Aware and become noted an star rating by year-end.

Admissions

Your role as the family is to set up a tour with a date and time before enrollment. Upon your tour completion of the tour, please take a day to decide if this program will be a great fit you and your family and your schedule. Then you would download the Wonderschool app to create an account to start the process of your enrollment. You will be given additional documents to complete for the program for licensing requirements. You will be required to pay $115 registration fee in order to enroll into the program and hold your spot. If you need a future spot there is one week of tuition holding fee for the program to hold your spot until you begin care. Once you have completed all necessary documents, you are ready to begin the journey with Tonya’s Lullaby In-Home. Welcome!