Building Blocks
Provides Each Child With
Individual Experiences

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Learning

To relate to and respect other children and adults (negotiating, problem solving and cooperating)

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Exploring

Curiosity and understanding about the world around them. Introducing and encouraging creative skills

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Developing

A feeling of positive self-image and confidence reflected in bright smiles, curious questions, and joyful learning.

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Stimulating

Intellectual development Interacting with other children in group situations

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We are three of a handful of early childhood education-based daycares here in the city of Medicine Hat or as we locals call it, the Gas City.
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You will find this website is packed full of information about our program and staff. If, after viewing our website,  you have any questions or would like to arrange a tour of one of our Medicine Hat, Alberta facilities located in:
‍Crescent_Heights, Southlands
and Southview, please feel free to contact our Director, Andrea Coulombe, via email or phone. Once again, we would like to thank you for your interest and hope that we hear from you very soon.

Philosophy

Helping children
prepare for the world
around them.

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Professional executive
Kimberly Quinn

Building Blocks Childcare Centres mission statement is “Educating Through Love, Laughter, Friendship and Family.” We exude and amplify this throughout our daily activities and interactions. Building Blocks Childcare Centres encourages children to develop an “awareness of the world around me.” This is the daycare’s yearly theme and is tied together with the monthly themes and activities of the program. We believe that in order to provide a successful daycare program, children are recognized as unique individuals who have the right to develop creativity, intellectually, emotionally, socially, spiritually and physically to his or her own potential.

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Sales executive
Amelia Fields
BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB
BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Learning to
Play

We offer a balance of structured, unstructured, and routine activities tailored to support each child’s unique needs.
At Building Blocks, we recognize that play is the work of children and essential to their well-being.
Play encourages exploration, builds confidence, and lays the groundwork for lifelong learning.
Our educators guide children through meaningful experiences that foster creativity, curiosity, and growth.
We value strong relationships with families and believe collaboration supports every child’s success.
By creating an inclusive and welcoming space, we help children feel safe, supported, and ready to thrive.

Inclusion

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Professional executive
Kimberly Quinn

We will ensure that our service is fully inclusive in meeting the needs of all children. We encourage children to discuss and share different aspects of culture, race, religion, abilities, life style and background. We aim to make inclusion a thread that runs through all of the activities of the setting. We welcome the diversity of family lifestyles and work with all families. We encourage children to contribute stories of their everyday life to the setting. Staff is responsive to children’s abilities and needs for assistance.

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Sales executive
Amelia Fields

Confidentiality

All staff that are employed with Building Blocks Childcare Centers has signed our confidentiality policy.
In the confidentiality agreement the following is stated:All documents pertaining to children will be kept in a secure place.
Anything that is discussed regarding any child will not be taken outside of the centre.
Posting pictures, or comments regarding children past or present on social networking sites is prohibited.

Nurturing Environment

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Professional executive
Kimberly Quinn

Children participate within a safe and caring environment where their health, vitality, well being and a sense of belonging and identity are protected and nurtured. Children participate within open, engaging and responsive environments where exploration and play are encouraged and purposefully planned. This enhances imagination and creativity, playful exploration and problem solving. This provides opportunities for children to be Mighty Learners as it allows the freedom to express themselves and a sense of belonging as the educators create a safe, secure and non-judgmental environment. Staff become the co-learners and scaffold learning stories to enhance upon the individual child to fully explore their interests. This allows the child to be challenged to achieve and move to a more complex level of moving, thinking, feeling and creativity.

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Sales executive
Amelia Fields

Love

The program will use child led and teacher supervised activities that promote positive mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health by focusing on the individual childs’ strengths and interests, asking questions about their feelings and listen and show empathy for their feelings.  
This will help to develop nurturing relationships, provide a safe and positive environment, and help to build children’s confidence.  
The educators will consider the different brain/cognitive development of each child in their class which will allow for daily considerations within their daily programming.  
This nurtures children’s dispositions to learn, provide opportunities for play and playfulness and create a sense of well-being and belonging.

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Laughter

Children are co-constructors within the program. This gives them the opportunities to develop
thinking skills and language.  This also allows for the safe exploration and experimenting with their ideas, culture,
traditions and self-regulation skills.  
The environment and educators encourage and support the child’s ability to adapt their behavior, attention, emotions and thoughts throughout the day, depending on what’s going on in the classroom such as being able to follow direction ex. lining up to go outside, sitting still when appropriate.  Educators support and encourage pro-social behavior with praise and words of encouragement when a child demonstrates pro-social behavior such as sharing and cooperation.  
The program uses learning provocations to allow the children to feel empowered and the Mighty Learners that they are.  The staff are responsive to individual children by responding to and enhancing upon the provocations.

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Friendship

Educators engage in “serve and return” interactions.  These back-and-forth exchanges are the building blocks of children’s early brain development.
They help children learn how to control their emotions, cope with stress, and learn skills that will serve as a foundation for later development such as awareness of peers, educators and community, empathy for peers and educators, kindness to peers and educators and the confidence to be assertive with their needs, thoughts and feelings.  
Educators also follow effective supervision at all times.

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Family

The program will demonstrate care, respect, honor, sharing and thoughtful listening to gain knowledge and appreciation of family, social and cultural practices and traditions.  
The program will seek opportunities to learn from elders and community leaders as these can provide authentic and meaningful experiences that connect curriculum to living and life.  
These connections help to build appreciation for differences and nurture respect and social responsibility within not only the family but the community as well.

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB
BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

Developmentally
Appropriate Curriculum

At Building Blocks Childcare Centres, our program is built around the unique needs and interests of each child. We follow a play-based approach that encourages exploration, discovery, and hands-on learning. Children develop independence by making choices throughout their daily experiences.Activities are thoughtfully planned to challenge and engage, supporting growth in all areas.

We focus on positive interactions, fostering strong relationships with both peers and educators.Daily plans include gross motor, fine motor, cognitive skills, and monthly themes.

We integrate language units, letter recognition, colours, and numbers into the learning.Our team is FLIGHT-trained, embracing responsive, relationship-based curriculum practices.Children are involved in planning, helping shape their learning in meaningful ways.Through routines and collaboration, we create a space where every child feels safe, capable, and confident.

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Testimonials

Sean Reed

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It’s so nice to have such a remarkable Childcare Centre to take your beloved children to on a daily basis but what’s more is to be able to trust those individuals that care for your children.

Shanelle Miller

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The staff at this establishment consistently demonstrates a high level of professionalism and expertise. Their dedication to client satisfaction is clear, and the location offers an ideal and well-maintained setting that enhances the overall experience.

Jadianne Page

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My family spent 8 years with this centre and I will forever recommend it to everyone.
My son started at the age of 2.
He had some speech difficulties, however was not severe enough for an aide. The staff went above and beyond their job titles.

Lula Adbella

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"Simply the best childcare. Building Blocks has been such a wonderful place for my child to grow. They've not only learned so much, but they've also made so many amazing friendships. The entire team feels like family."

Sean Reed

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It’s so nice to have such a remarkable Childcare Centre to take your beloved children to on a daily basis but what’s more is to be able to trust those individuals that care for your children.

Jadianne Page

star star star star star

My family spent 8 years with this centre and I will forever recommend it to everyone.
My son started at the age of 2.
He had some speech difficulties, however was not severe enough for an aide. The staff went above and beyond their job titles.

BBPS Child Care Center Medicine Hat AB

The Best Daycare, Childcare &
Preschool Service in Medicine Hat, Alberta

Contact

phone

andrea@bbps.ca

phone

(403) 504-7544

fax

(403) 527-7710

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