Wait List Policy

Wait List & Enrollment Process

These policies and procedures ensure that Ka Hana Pono staff can effectively communicate with prospective parents and students regarding potential enrollment.

There is high demand by parents for their children to attend a quality-based, licensed and unique program such as Ka Hana Pono.  Therefore, listed below are policies and procedures pertaining to the waiting list and to the process of registration.

Waiting List:
  • Complete an application to be placed on the waiting list (no-fee)
  • Application is available on our website www.ka-hana-pono-daycare.blogspot.com
  • A child can be wait listed at birth or later
  • Check your email often as we will communicate with you primarily by email.
  • When a spot becomes available for your child, we will notify you to see if you are still interested.
  • If you are, we will send you a formal offer email and schedule an interview and tour.
  • To reserve a spot you will need to send in a non-refundable enrollment fee of $150.00
  • The first months tuition will be due two weeks prior to your childs start date
  • You will receive a schedule of days and times to bring your child the week prior to his/her official start date – these planned short visits / play dates are to introduce your child to their new play-school environment.
  • You will also receive a packet of information including an application, a copy of this handbook, registration forms, medical record request forms, and other documents needed for your child’s folder.

Registration / Ka Hana Pono (KHP) accepts children in the following order:
  • Currently enrolled students
  • Siblings of current KHP students, siblings of former KHP students
  • New Families from the waiting list
  • Open Registration/Walk in Registration if space permits

Important Notes:
  • The best way to ensure a spot is open for you around the time of your preference is to get on the wait-list as soon as possible (9-12 months in advance).
  • The school population is always in a state of flux- the numbers can never be predicted. Availability can vary widely year to year.
  • Some factors that must be considered for student placement include age, gender, date of birth, and special needs. Therefore, some decision-making may take place at the director’s discretion when determining student enrollment.
  • It is highly suggested that prospective parents also apply to other programs to ensure placement.
  • Completion of an application does not guarantee placement at Ka Hana Pono Daycare.
  • The director will only notify families that have been accepted into the program, it is the responsibility of the parents to notify Ka Hana Pono of any changes to their application.
**Subject to change at any time**

Our Mission & Vision

Ka Hana Pono Daycare Center’s mission is to serve as a resource to the North Shore children, parents, families and community by proving a quality child care center rooted in the belief that the primary needs of all children are love and a great deal of attention.

Ka Hana Pono Daycare will provide a safe, secure, caring, & enriched atmosphere in which each child’s emotional, social, intellectual, physical, environmental, & creative awareness can grow and flourish.

We believe that the parent’s position and relationship with their child is the greatest influence in the life of their child and support their role by providing a nurturing environment where their child is provided with the opportunity to feel effective, experience success, gain a positive self-concept, and have fun!!!

Our long term vision is that Ka Hana Pono Daycare will play a role in organizing, motivating, and assisting the community and community leaders, to accommodate the diverse childcare needs of the North Shore community & of our visitors.

Our Values

Ka Hana Pono Daycare is an environment in alignment with our eight values through everyday experiences and our interactions with each other and nature.

ALOHA - Unconditional Love and Respect for Self, Others & Nature
Hilina’i – Trust and Honesty
Nahenahe – Compassion
Lokahi – Unity, Oneness
Pomaikai’i – Blessings
Apono – Acceptance
Kalana – Forgiveness
Mahalo – Gratitude

Our daily experiences provide opportunities to make choices – those choices can be seen as an opportunity to practice a lesson and encourage personal growth. There is gratitude in all lessons – positive or negative.

Experiences are not viewed as good/bad or right/wrong – they are viewed as lessons, valued and received with love and gratitude.

Each of us is perfect as we are, they key is knowing that you don’t have to perfect to be loved. Ka Hana Pono Daycare feels this is one of the most important lessons a child can learn in life.

General Info

Angelica & Jason Friedmann conceived Ka Hana Pono Daycare com-passionate to the fact that finding quality childcare is an issue that cuts to the core of the quality of life of every parent and child.

Conveniently located in Haleiwa town, we provide a safe, secure, caring, & enriched atmosphere in which each child’s emotional, so-cial, intellectual, physical, environ-mental, & creative awareness can grow and flourish.

Enrollment
Open to children between the ages of 2 to 5 (pre-Kindergarten).

Our Hours
Ka Hana Pono Daycare is open Mon-day through Friday from 8:00am to 5:30pm.

Monthly Enrollment Options
Tuition is calculated as a monthly fee and is due on your child’s first day of class for each month.

Monday thru Friday (5 days/week)
  • 8:00am-5:30pm $650.00 per month
  • 8:00am-2:00pm $610.00 per month

Monday Wednesday Friday (3 days/week)
  • 8:00am-5:30pm $445.00 per month
  • 8:00am-2:00pm $405.00 per month

Tuesday Thursday (2 days/week)
  • 8:00am-5:30pm $310.00 per month
  • 8:00am-2:00pm $270.00 per month

An annual comprehensive fee of $125.00 is due upon enrollment and secures your child’s place in the program.

Our Curriculum
The focus of our curriculum is on the importance of each child ex-periencing the process of learning rather than the finished product.

Our daily schedule and curriculum is flexible and promotes your child's development and creativity through a balance of educational, stimulating and fun activities.

From the morning routine of circle time, calendar and weather, to dramatic play and art projects, children are actively involved in the learning process.

Learning about various genres of music, employment possibilities, harvesting of food, habitats of animals and space, & health and safety discussions are just a few topics which provide necessary information utilized throughout a lifetime!!

Program Highlights

We provide quality child care rooted in the belief that the primary needs of all children are love and a great deal of attention.

A safe and fun learning environment, which allows all children to experience success!

Licensed Preschool Teacher

Eco-Health Commitment (click here for details)

100% GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) FREE

100% ORGANIC OR RESPONSIBLY GROWN FOODS INCLUDING DAIRY


Breakfast, Two healthy snacks, fresh fruit and veggies for each lunch, & organic milks are served and included in tuition each day.  Local products are used as much as possible.

Large fenced in backyard play area with grass & play equipment—& lots of opportunity for enjoying & exploring the outdoors.

Small group size (max of 12 children with two caregivers) – means lots of time for love and attention to each child.

Music, art & nature are everyday learning experiences at Ka Hana Pono Daycare.

All staff are Infant & Child CPR & First Aid Certified

Simple Pono Lessons

Respect all life.

Leave places better than they were when you found them.

Sing.

Dance.

Laugh Out Loud.

Hold the door…Hold the elevator.

Ask for help.

Plant something.

Drive with courtesy.

Never drive impaired.

Know your culture.

Attend an event of another culture.

Return your shopping cart.

Get out and enjoy nature.

Pick up litter.

Share with your neighbors.

Create smiles.

Give Hugs.

Say please and thank you.

Say I love you.

Note from Dr. Marc Shlachter

"I have known Angelica for the last 18 years as her physician, friend and admirer. She is of high moral and ethical values and an excellent wife and mother. Her forte is caring and responsibility. She has looked after her great grandparents, siblings, and cousins since she was 12 years old. I have complete trust in Angelica as a teacher and caregiver for infants, children and people of all ages."

Sincerely,
Marc Shlachter, MD
05/06/09

‘He wai e ola’ – The Water of Life

BEING IN THE CANOE

Ka Hana Pono was the ancient Hawaiian approach to living with Aloha Spirit – the daily practice of staying in pono.

To be in pono means to be physically, emotionally and spiritually healthy/connected. The result is harmony in being.

Being pono is like being in a canoe.

Life’s circumstances are like the ocean and her waves, they are constantly in motion. They are whatever they are, wherever they are at any given moment.

Being pono is like being and staying in the canoe. You’re riding the waves, safe in your own space inside the canoe, no matter what the sea is doing around you. It’s clearly black and white. You’re either in the canoe - in pono - or you’re not. We always know when we’re pono. We know when we’re reacting to life in a calm, connected manner. We also know when we’re not connected. No one has to tell us when we fall out of the canoe. We’re all freaked out: minds racing, hearts pounding, our guts clenched in knots ... survival mode, what the Hawaiians characterize as the seaweed entangled in your rudder, pilikia, the opposite of pono.

You cannot hope to live for any extended amount of time in the ocean. You could surf out there, swim out there, and survive for a brief period of time, but unless you’ve got a canoe, a good solid boat underneath you, you cannot survive indefinitely in the ocean. It’s just too big. Ancient Hawaiians felt the same way about life. They understood that life was just too big, too variable, too unpredictable.

Ka Hana Pono offers a way for you to shift out of pilikia and back into pono. It’s designed to help get you back into your canoe so that you can complete your journey and make land once again.

When you are Pono, your creativity will flow without effort: your inner beauty and light will shine through and all will see you as that shining Bowl of Light i ka 'uhane nui au ... you, as Spirit Greatness, paddling in your canoe ... full sail!