Staff Writer
Scenic Drive Academy and Day Care is now accepting children, ages six-weeks to 12-years-of age ( for those needing after school daycare for their children). The new daycare is a licensed facility owned and operated by Brad and Amy Bouchard, with assistance from their two-and-a half-year-old son, Braden.
Aroostook Republican photo/Barb Scott
Brad and Amy Bouchard, with son Braden, are the owners and operators of Scenic Drive Academy and Daycare in Caribou. The new daycare facility is a licensed establishment offering childcare for children ranging in age from six weeks to 12-years-of-age. The academy and daycare will feature healthy meals and nurtitional snacks as part of the “Color Me Healthy” curriculum.
“This has been a dream of mine for a long time,” said Amy Bouchard. “With both Brad and I here, the children will have no lack of attention,” she emphasized.
Bouchard graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a bachelor’s degree in nutrition with a focus on public health and earned her masters degree from the University of Tennessee.
Bouchard has for worked four years as an Aroostook County representative with the Maine Nutrition Network, providing programs, activities and training in schools regarding nutrition and physical activity. This network is a program made available through the USDA. Bouchard also worked as a pediatric dietician at the Rhode Island Hasbro Children’s’ Hospital.
Older prep-school children who are enrolled in the Scenic Drive Academy and Day Care will benefit from the Color Me Healthy curriculum. A program which uses a block of time during which the children participate in lessons of varying themes which are all tied into activity and food.
While children at the Scenic Drive Academy they were be provided with two healthy meals (breakfast and lunch) as well as two nutritional snacks throughout the day.
Another featured offered at the daycare site is a separate infant sleeping room, where the youngest of the enrollment will be allowed a quiet, undisturbed area for their sleep.
“In the spring, our backyard will be fenced in and will have all kinds of playground equipment,” said Bouchard. We love children,” she added smiling. “We don’t want to be just a babysitting place, children here will be nurtured, loved and they’ll learn,” she noted.
Anyone wishing more information on the Scenic Drive Academy and Day Care may contact Bouchard to set up an interview or to just visit at 498-6026.
Established daycare hours are from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
