The Blue Room (School Age Program)

The Blue Room is our very busy school-age room. We have children ages 5 to 12 years of age in this room. During the school year the children can come to Happy Time between the hours of 6:00 am and 8:00 am. We make sure they eat a healthy breakfast before we take them to their schools on the Benton County Transportation Bus. This is very convenient for our parents. We also have an after school program. Again, we pick up the kids from school so the parents don’t have to worry about their child walking home to an empty house! Everyone is safe and well supervised.

One more convenience Happy Time offers School-age parents is that we are always open. We’re open for early outs, late starts, snow days, teacher work days and vacations. We even go directly to the school to pick up your child if the school closes for bad weather. You never have to worry about a back-up emergency plan because we’ll be there!

During the summer we offer a full day, five day a week program. During the summer we spend three days/week swimming, two days/month at the library and at least two days per month going on field trips. Our school age children are never bored! Also, when they have some extra time, we plant gardens, play Nintendo, work on art projects and read books. There’s something for everyone.

Lainie Werling, Lead Teacher
Lainie currently attends college at Kirkwood and has been with Happy Time for over a year!  She has many years of experience with children including working with infants at KinderCare in Cedar Rapids.  In her spare time, she likes to golf and spend time with her fiancé Shane, family and friends.  Laine says, 'I work with awesome people and children... there is a great reward in that'!  You can find Laine in the Blue Room MW: 6:30am-8:00am/4:00pm-6:00pm, Tues/Thurs/Friday 6:30am-8:00am/2:00pm-6:00pm.

Laura Cook, Assistant Teacher
Laura has a BA in Elementary Education including over 3 year experience in the childcare field.  Her favorite part of Happy Time is seeing the kids having fun and learning new things!  In her free time, Laura likes to spend time at home with her two dogs and her husband Justin.  You can find Laura work the school age children Monday-Thursday 3:00pm-5:00pm/Friday 3:00pm-4:00pm.

Andrea Hallbert, Teacher Assistant
You can find Andrea in the Blue Room MWF 3:30pm - 5:00pm.

*Picture taken by Crystal Coder 9/2006