Our daycare has proudly served the Garland, Tx community for over 45 years.
Texas Licensed
TRS 4****(Texas Rising Star)
NAC-Nationally Accredited
Call or contact us to schedule a visit and see how your family can join ours.
Services
Hours: 6:00AM – 6:00PM M-F
We provide breakfast, lunch, and snacks as well as baby food and formula. We provide transportation to and from local schools.
Transportation
Before and after-school drop off and pick up for the following GISD schools:
Bullock, Caldwell, Club Hill, Cooper, Daughtery, Ethridge, Freeman/Golden Meadows, Hillside, Kimberlin, Parkcrest/Williams, Shorehaven, Watson, Weaver
Communication
The care of your child is a partnership between home and school. We value parent involvement at every level and encourage you to partner with us. Get in touch with us to learn how you can stay involved in your child’s learning and play at the school. We use the ProCare App to communicate with parents.
About Us
Lynda Francis established the Happy Days School 1977. Since then she has owned and managed the daycare. Many children who have been cared for and treated like family at Happy Days. We even have children attending who are the third generation in their family to come to Happy Days.
The Director, Dee Merritt, has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and a Master’s Degree in Leadership, along with having a teaching certification for public schools. Some teachers and staff at Happy Days have been here twenty nine years. We believe that good child care comes from having a passion and love of children along with continual professional development.
Each teacher is required to have 30 hours of professional development each year along with CPR and First Aid. All of our staff has a criminal background check done before they may begin working with the children.
We are Texas Rising Star certified, Texas School Ready, and use the ABEKA curriculum. We offer discounts for children whose parents are City of Garland & GISD employees.
Family Engagement Activities
Happy Days believes that the family is an inportnat part of our job. Each year we have activities for families to engage with their children and other families. We do things like family swim night, movie night, Thanksgiving feast, Christmas program, Graduation ceremony, Literacy night, Science night, family skate night and Knights and My Lady Family Ball. The teachers do assessments on the children and have parent conferences to discuss and plan for the goals for each child.
