Extended Care (Lunch Bunch + Stay & Play)

For families that require extended care or simply want continued educational enrichment, Hastings Ranch Nursery School offers a extended care from 11:30 am - 3:30 pm Monday - Friday for students that are 3 years old and potty trained. Be sure to book early as spots are limited and often run out!

What to Expect / Schedule

  • Lunch Bunch (11:30 am - 12:30 pm): students sit outside (weather permitting) and enjoy a lunch packed by their family. Upon finishing students have the opportunity to play outside.

  • STEAM Activity (12:30pm - 1:30 pm): Miss Nancy, HRNS’s Stay & Play teacher, prepares unique science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (e.g. “STEAM”) programming for students to participate in. Students may find themselves participating in a culinary adventure, discovering the joys and challenges of gardening, or trying their hand at a fun art project.

  • Stay and Play (1:30 pm - 3:30 pm): students continue in play-based learning either by joining their afternoon program counterparts or by taking advantage of HRNS’s large upper yard.

Standard Rates (e.g. “Drop In” Rates)

  • Lunch Bunch (11:30 am - 12:30 pm): $12/hour

  • Stay & Play (12:30 pm - 3:30 pm): $16/hour

Discounted Rates

Being able to predict how many students will participate in stay and play helps HRNS with staff scheduling. As such, HRNS offers discounted rates for families who commit to a stay and play schedule on a monthly basis.

Rates:

  • 1 Day/Week: $16/hour

  • 2 Days/Week: 15/hour

  • 3 Days/Week: $14/hour

  • 4 Days/Week: $13/hour

  • 5 Days/Week: $13/hour

How it works: prior to the first day of the month, families can submit a stay and play discount form. The form allows families to specify which days of the week, and until what time, they are committing to. The more days a family commits to, the steeper the discount. For example, if a family commits to stay and play on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for the month of March, the family will pay $12/hour for stay and play instead of the standards $14/hour rate.

Example: Jonathan’s family takes advantage of the monthly discount and signs him up for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursday Stay and Play until 3:30 pm. Assuming 4 weeks in the month, Jonathan’s family saved ~$72/month, or $648/year through discounted rates

How to Sign Up (Drop-In)

  • Email admin@hrns.org 24 hours in advance

  • Visit the office and notify the Director or Office Admin

How to Sign Up (Discounted Rates)

Step 1: download the monthly signup form below

Step 2: email the form to admin@hrns.org or turn it into the office prior to the first day of the month

What does my child do at stay & play?

Each month, HRNS’s Stay and Play Teacher, develops curriculum and activities centered around science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics. We’ve provided a sample week below to help paint a picture of what you and your child can expect!

  • Mondays - Games: get ready for an Aquarium-themed scavenger hunt supplemented with making and playing with an ocean-themed chia seed slime!

  • Tuesdays - Cooking and Movement/Meditation: for cooking, make some beach pudding cups! And get the body moving with swim like a fish!

  • Wednesdays - Arts and Science: it’s watercoloring time with seashells and sealife

  • Thursdays - Literature and Engineering: students will read the book “Commotion in the Ocean” and engineer an aquarium!

  • Fridays - Sports: learn and play the classic game “musical chairs”!