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Little Beavs Child Care provides a comprehensive year-round child care and early learning program.
Little Beavs offers an engaging, rich and grounding experience. Our program is designed to help your child develop individually, socially and academically – not only so they are well prepared for kindergarten — but also for a lifetime of learning and growing as capable, dynamic individuals.
Children learn through play. At Little Beavs, children feel free to express themselves and explore in a creative, safe environment where active play leads to active learning. Your child’s extraordinary wealth of abilities and potential, and strength and creativity will be developed through a program that encourages creative intelligence, free thought, and sensitivity and awareness.
OSU-Cascades and COCC faculty, staff, students and the Central Oregon community.
Six Weeks to Six Years
Infant (6 weeks – 23 months)
Capacity: 8 Students
Staff Ratio: 1:4
Toddler (24 months – 35 months)
Capacity: 10 Students
Staff Ratio: 1:5
Preschool/Pre-K (3 years – 6 years)
Capacity: 10 Students
Staff Ratio: 1:5
Please inquire for tuition rates.
An Associated Students of Cascades Campus (ASCC) child care subsidy is available to support OSU-Cascades student parents. It is not intended to cover the entire cost of child care. Learn more and apply.
Full Time: Monday through Friday
Part-Time: Monday/Wednesday/Friday or Tuesday/Thursday
Full Day: 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Half Day Sessions: Morning or Afternoon
Graduate & Research Center (GRC)
650 SW Columbia Street
Bend, Oregon 97702
Please fill out this form.
childcare@osucascades.edu
541-706-2188
Dayna Swanson, Early Learning Center Director, is a licensed teacher who has lived in Bend since 2015. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and has a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies and an elementary teaching credential and K-12 special education teaching credential from Dominican University of California. She also holds a Master’s in Education with an emphasis in full inclusion of special education students.
Prior to her five years in elementary education, Dayna worked for more than 10 years in early childhood education. She has always had a passion for early childhood education and the learning that takes place in those early years. She believes every child is special and unique, and that young children learn best through play, exploration and each other.
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