The Learning Tree Children’s Academy

Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

“Ensure maximum group size is not exceeded and supervision of children is provided by assigned staff person. LS Brey observed a child exiting the older preschool classroom unsupervised, crossing through the younger preschool classroom, and entering the bathroom in the one and two-year-old classroom. The one and two-year-old classroom was at maximum group size of 12. Retrain staff on proper supervision and maximum group size.”

Rule 27U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 31, 2025.

General Qualifications

“Ensure staff are fingerprinted and receive a comprehensive background check every five years. Complete fingerprinting for Staff #7.”

Rule 28U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 17, 2025.

Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs an eligibility letter. Five staff need an updated PD plan, One staff needs CPR/FA, PD plan, two documented attempts to obtain service letters, and references. One staff person needs CPR/FA and signed PD plan. One staff needs references.”

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 9, 2026.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. Four children need updated infant monthly feeding statements. Three children need a blood lead level test result. Two children need a health appraisal, immunizations, and blood lead level test result.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 6, 2026.

Children’s Attendance

“Ensure each child’s exact arrival and departure is documented. The arrival times for every child in the three-year-old classroom was not documented. This was corrected at the visit when the times were added.”

Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 10, 2025.

Indoor Space

“Ensure walls are in good repair. Repair wall in the bathroom near the toilet. Ensure outlets are protected with safety covers. Add covers to exposed outlets in the older pre-k classroom. Ensure air fresheners are not used. An aerosol air freshener was observed in the three-year-old classroom. Remove air freshener.”

Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 6, 2026.

Kitchen and Food Preparation

“Ensure a working thermometer is in the kitchen’s freezer and refrigerator. Add a thermometer to the large freezer. Ensure refrigerators and freezers maintain an appropriate temperature. Adjust temperatures.”

Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 6, 2026.

Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

“Ensure rest equipment is labeled with the child’s name, including infant cribs. Label cribs.”

Rule 56U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 31, 2025.

Diapering and Soiled Clothing

“Ensure diaper pails are lined and foot-activated. Add liners to the infant classroom and one and two-year old classroom. Utilize diaper pail in the infant room for all diapering. Ensure diaper-changing procedure is posted. Post procedure in the one and two-year-old classroom.”

Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 6, 2026.

Emergency Planning

“Ensure at least one evacuation drill a year occurs during nap time. Conduct December’s drill during nap.”

Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 31, 2025.

Feeding of Infants

“Ensure nothing is added to the infants’’ bottles other than prepared formula or breastmilk. LS Brey observed cereal in an infant’s bottle. Inform families a physician’s note is required to serve cereal in bottles. Ensure infants’ bottles are labeled with their name. Label bottles.”

Rule 72U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 31, 2025.

License Renewal

“Ensure renewal application is submitted at least 60 days prior to license expiration. Submit application.”

Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 12, 2025.

Personnel Files

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 13, 2025.

Staff Attendance

“Ensure staff are accurately signing in and out of the classrooms. This was corrected at the visit when a staff person corrected her time.”

Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 5, 2024.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. Two children need an updated monthly feeding statement. One child needs updated immunizations and blood lead level test result. One child needs a blood lead level test result. One child needs an updated health appraisal and blood lead level test result. One child needs hours and days of attending.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 13, 2025.

Children’s Attendance

“Ensure each child’s exact arrival and departure are documented. One child was not signed into the one and two-year-old classroom and one child was not signed out of the four and five-year-old classroom. This was corrected at the visit when the attendance was updated in each classroom.”

Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 5, 2024.

Indoor Space

“Ensure air fresheners are not used in child care spaces. This Specialist observed an air freshener in the bathroom off the infant classroom.”

Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 2, 2025.

Kitchen and Food Preparation

“Ensure the refrigerator in the kitchen reads 41 degrees F or below. Ensure the refrigerator in the infant room and the top freezer in the kitchen have a thermometer and maintain proper temperatures.”

Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 2, 2025.

Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

“Ensure rest equipment is free of rips and non-absorbent. This Specialist observed a nap mat with a large rip in the four and five-year-old classroom. Ensure cribs in the infant room are at least 18 inches apart and labeled with the child’s name.”

Rule 56U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 2, 2025.

Diapering and Soiled Clothing

“Ensure diaper changing mats are non-absorbent. Replace mat in the one and two-year-old classroom.”

Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 2, 2025.

Administration of Medication

“Ensure medications are stored securely with the child’s name and includes a proper Medication Administration Record (MAR). This Specialist observed several bottles of baby lotion, baby oils, and baby powders in the cabinet in the infant room. None of the bottles were labeled with a child’s name, nor was there an MAR for them. Dispose of bottles or label them with the correct child’s name and obtain written parent consent on a completed MAR.”

Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 2, 2025.

Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 and Staff #2 need to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals. Staff #1 needs to complete staff orientation, two attempts at Service Letters, Health Appraisal with TB Screening, and one more reference is no Service Letters are received. Staff #3 needs two attempts at Service Letters and two or four references based on the reponse from the Service Letters. Staff #5 needs two attempts at Service Letters and one more reference if Service Letters are not returned.”

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 17, 2024.

Parents Right to Know

“Ensure any person touring the facility signs the Parents Right Know Log.”

Rule 38U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 4, 2024.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. Child #4 and #8 need blood lead level test results.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 28, 2023.

Children’s Attendance

“Ensure every child is signed into each classroom at the exact arrival time. This was corrected at the visit when staff signed the children in.”

Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 12, 2023.

Indoor Space

“Dispose of air fresheners in each classroom. This was corrected at the visit when all air fresheners were removed from the Center.”

Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 12, 2023.

Outdoor Area

“Ensure all fall zones have at least 9 inches of mulch under them.”

Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 28, 2023.

Sanitation

“Ensure soap and water is available. There was no soap and water available in the one and two-year-old classroom.”

Rule 58U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 28, 2023.

Administration of Medication

“Ensure anything applied to children, other than soap and water, has a Medication Administration Record (MAR) completed for it. Ensure all medications are labeled and stored out of reach of children. LS Brey observed nose saline, orajel, and bug spray in the cubbies and accessible to children, in the one and two-year-old classroom.”

Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 28, 2023.

First Aid Kits

“Ensure the first aid kit has all required items available. Add an eye patch, pen, notepad or paper, plastic bag, and scissors to the first aid kit. This was corrected at the visit when these items were added.”

Rule 65U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 12, 2023.

Lesson Plans

“Ensure lesson plans include physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and language/literacy activities daily. Lesson plans for ages two years and older must also include weekly opportunities in food/healthy habits, science, music, and sensory. Ensure all lesson plans are posted.”

Rule 74U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 4, 2024.

Activity Areas

“Ensure activity areas include science and art materials that are accessible to children.”

Rule 75U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 28, 2023.

License Renewal

“Ensure renewal application is submitted at least 60 days prior to license expiration.”

Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 8, 2023.