Shooting Star Summer Program
Catch A Star Learning Center, 424 W Piper St, Macomb, IL 61455
About
The Shooting Star Summer Program includes daily field trips that may include bowling, roller skating, movie theaters, shopping, fishing, restaurants, local parks, area museums, swimming, golfing, water parks, zoos, ice skating, ice cream trips, and indoor amusement playgrounds. When children are on-site, they have access to computers, pool tables, air hockey, foosball, and other games in air conditioned classrooms, as well as a gymnasium for rainy days, an outdoor natural classroom, and two outdoor playgrounds. Children who attend the year round After School Program automatically have spots in the limited Summer Program.
Catch A Star Learning Center has been a child care facility in Macomb for over twenty five years. The Shooting Star Summer Program is led by a team that includes Director Kimberly Hare and Assistant Directors Amie Bartold and Krissy Hagen. Staff who work with children are expected to have appropriate education and professional training for their assigned age groups, meet DCFS requirements, and have cleared fingerprinting and background checks through the Sex Offender Registry, Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System, Illinois State Police, and FBI. Catch A Star educators train in-depth on child care and child-development milestones, are certified in First Aid, CPR, and AED, and complete 20 hours of training each year; they may hold credentials such as college degrees, Child Development Associate, Early Childhood Education Certificates, various Gateways credentials, or an Illinois State Teaching Certificate. The Director holds a B.S. from Western Illinois University, has completed graduate work at National-Louis University, and holds multiple Illinois and national administrative and early childhood credentials; the Assistant Directors hold college degrees and Illinois early childhood and director credentials. Catch A Star was voted Best Daycare of 2021 by the McDonough County community. The program follows a mission that emphasizes each child as a unique individual, the importance of developmentally appropriate experiences, encouragement of children’s own artwork, play spaces, and games, and time and encouragement to play, with the goal that children feel happy at school, eager to come, eager to learn, and eagerly awaited by staff.
Last updated January 10, 2026.
Catch A Star Learning Center has been a child care facility in Macomb for over twenty five years. The Shooting Star Summer Program is led by a team that includes Director Kimberly Hare and Assistant Directors Amie Bartold and Krissy Hagen. Staff who work with children are expected to have appropriate education and professional training for their assigned age groups, meet DCFS requirements, and have cleared fingerprinting and background checks through the Sex Offender Registry, Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System, Illinois State Police, and FBI. Catch A Star educators train in-depth on child care and child-development milestones, are certified in First Aid, CPR, and AED, and complete 20 hours of training each year; they may hold credentials such as college degrees, Child Development Associate, Early Childhood Education Certificates, various Gateways credentials, or an Illinois State Teaching Certificate. The Director holds a B.S. from Western Illinois University, has completed graduate work at National-Louis University, and holds multiple Illinois and national administrative and early childhood credentials; the Assistant Directors hold college degrees and Illinois early childhood and director credentials. Catch A Star was voted Best Daycare of 2021 by the McDonough County community. The program follows a mission that emphasizes each child as a unique individual, the importance of developmentally appropriate experiences, encouragement of children’s own artwork, play spaces, and games, and time and encouragement to play, with the goal that children feel happy at school, eager to come, eager to learn, and eagerly awaited by staff.
Last updated January 10, 2026.
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