August 2024 Nationwide Instructor of the Month

The Instructor of the Month award is designed to acknowledge an worker that exemplifies our core values, that are compassion, humility, integrity, loyalty, and self-discipline. This month we’re happy to announce that our 2024 August Nationwide Instructor of the Month is Ms. Lourdes of Little Sunshine’s Playhouse and Preschool of O’Fallon.

In speaking about how Ms. Lourdes exemplifies LSP’s core values, Assistant Director, Ms. Kaitlyn stated, “We’re thrilled to acknowledge Ms. Lourdes for her unbelievable dedication, endurance, and love for our little ones. With a mild contact and a coronary heart stuffed with compassion, Ms. Lourdes creates a nurturing and joyful surroundings the place our infants can thrive and develop day by day. From soothing lullabies to partaking sensory actions, she goes above and past to make sure that every youngster feels protected, beloved, and completely satisfied. Ms. Lourdes has been a necessary a part of our toddler program and staff since day one. As one in all our founding staff members, she has performed an important function in shaping the nurturing surroundings that our program is understood for right this moment. Her dedication, heat, and unwavering dedication have touched the lives of so many little ones and their households.”

What age group do you educate?
Infants

What’s the title of your classroom?
Emerald Metropolis

What do you’re keen on most in regards to the age group you educate?
I like watching the infants be taught!  As an Toddler trainer I get to look at youngsters be taught new expertise and expertise “firsts”. Additionally, being half of a kid’s progress journey and positively affect youngsters’s futures and form their younger minds. I like that I can have interaction infants with sensory tasks, studying, and singing songs.

What’s your favourite curriculum challenge you’ve ever finished in your classroom?
I like doing the seasonal challenge. I personally loved doing the artwork present with the infants.

What do you get pleasure from most about working for LSP?
I get pleasure from working and taking good care of all of the infants. Additionally, I get pleasure from working day by day with glorious colleagues and management staff. It’s a enjoyable and enrichment place to work with.

What made you wish to turn out to be an early childhood educator?
I select to be an early childhood educator to make a distinction and have a optimistic affect on youngsters’s lives and assist form their future. After been in Gross sales and Advertising for 25 years and transferring from Puerto Rico to Missouri, I made a decision that I wished a change and one thing to offer to my group.

What do you get pleasure from doing exterior of labor?
I like to journey, prepare dinner, stroll with my canine, Stanley, and luxuriate in high quality time with my household.

Inform us one particular reality about your self that nobody would count on.
A particular reality is that I get pleasure from listening to 80’s music. Subsequent yr might be my highschool 40-year reunion and it looks as if yesterday!

We additionally wish to say congratulations to all of the nominees who’re listed under. Thanks for all of your laborious work and dedication!

Becky S. – Alpharetta

Helen M. – Arvada

Shannon R. – Broomfield

Jenna M. – Chesterfield

Lyuba G. – Colorado Springs (Cheyenne Mountain)

Shannon R. – Colorado Springs (Briargate)

Kaylee F. – Creve Coeur

Ladys Z. – Cumming

Banessa M. – Elkhorn North

Haley B. – 4 Factors

Sammie H. – Franklin

Desirai J. – Gilbert – Higley

Emily E. – Gilbert – Val Vista

Jenny H. – Granite Bay

Rachael G. – Lake St. Louis

Religion T. – Lakeway

Abby S. – Leawood

Rachael B. – Littleton

Jaime D. – Mt. Juliet

Jerry D. – Overland Park

Makenzie M. – Ozark

Nizhoni R. – Parker

Brenna P. – Rogers

Annabella C. – Roswell

Yesenia F. – San Antonio – Dominion

Kendaiziah G. – San Antonio – Stone Oak

Crecia J. – Schaumburg

Haley H. – Scottsdale

Bliss S. – Southlake

Emilee B. – Springfield I

Reagan R – Springfield II

Kaylee F. – Springfield III

Elena Ok. – The Woodlands

Lisa G. – College Metropolis

Joselyn L. – Willowbrook