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Z's House Daycare

Three things, done properly, every day.

Not a curriculum binder nobody opens. These are the parts of the day that actually happen, in a small licensed home where the same adults are there every morning.

A green table with paint cups, brushes and dinosaur colour-mixing worksheets.

Early learning

Educational programs tailored to age groups, focused on literacy, numeracy and the arts in a stimulating environment built for curiosity.

  • Circle in the morning, when everyone is freshest and nobody is hungry yet.
  • A letter and a number carry the week, so they turn up in the song, the art and the snack.
  • Colour mixing with real paint and real brushes — the worksheets in the photograph are from a dinosaur week.
  • Fine motor work that looks like play: threading, tongs, stickers, scissors under supervision.
  • The older ones get what they need for kindergarten: their name, their letters, sitting for a story.
Lunch boxes packed with mango, hard-boiled eggs, turkey wraps, carrots, strawberries, kiwi and orange slices.

Meals and snacks

Every child gets balanced, healthy meals and snacks prepared according to dietary guidelines to support their growth and health.

  • Breakfast, lunch and two snacks, all of it made in the kitchen on site.
  • Fruit and vegetables at every meal, which is the part most parents quietly check.
  • Allergies and restrictions are written down per child and cooked around, not worked around.
  • You are told what your child ate and how much, the same day.
  • The photograph on this page is the real food, on a real day. It is not stock.
A wooden climbing frame with a red slide on grass, beside a pastel play fence.

Outside, whenever the weather allows

Outdoor play and activities that build physical health and motor skills, with safe, monitored exploration.

  • On a good day they are outside twice — once in the morning, once after nap.
  • The yard is private and fully fenced. No shared playground, no other group cycling through.
  • The youngest have a gated area of their own inside the yard, so crawlers are not in the running lane.
  • This is Utah, so winter is real: when it is too cold or too icy, gross-motor play moves indoors.
  • Nobody is outside unsupervised at any point, in any weather.

The two languages are not a module.

English and Spanish are both spoken all day, by people who grew up in both. There is no Spanish hour on a timetable, because that is not how a four-year-old learns a language — they learn it by being in a room where it is simply what people say. A parent put it this way on Google: “I love that my kids were exposed to Spanish and English.”

You do not need to speak Spanish at home for this to work, and your child will not fall behind in English. Ask about it on your tour — it is the question we most enjoy answering.

Book a time to come see it.

Half an hour, agreed in advance, so you get somebody's full attention rather than their apology. You cannot tell from a website whether a place is right for your kid. You can tell in ten minutes standing in the room.

Book a tourCall (801) 651-7444