Your Infant

Our goal is to provide a safe and nurturing “home away from home” where babies can explore and make new discoveries. The program is designed to give babies the skills that will serve as the building blocks for a lifetime of learning.

Your infant will learn to engage with others by:

• Expressing his needs and desires through coos, babbling, gestures, and facial expressions
• Imitating caregivers’ speech rhythms and inflections
• Interacting with picture books, photo cards, and puppets
• Listening to stories, songs, rhymes, and finger plays
• Engaging with objects of varying textures, shapes, and size such as puppets and shape boards
• Experimenting with the concept of cause-and-effect, object permanence, and trial-and-error.
• Classifying objects by shape, color, and other key factors
• Engaging in sensitive, responsive interaction with highly attentive caregivers
• Participating in experiences designed to promote self-awareness and self- regulation
• Practicing using facial expressions and eye contact to communicate with caregivers and other infants
• Working on lifting her head, rolling from side to side, and crawling
• Practicing standing and walking with the direct support of attentive caregivers
• Learning to coordinate her body movements and through music and dance
• Self-feeding, bouncing balls, and handling blocks and shape boards
• Actively listening to songs, poems, and stories.
• Learning to move rhythmically to music
• Exploring various artistic media such as paint and crayons with his senses
• Engaging in activities that encourage self-expression, including playing with puppets and photo cards

Your Toddler

Children learn best through experiences

• Imitating and responding to the words and actions of others through storytelling activities and word games
• Identifying and naming familiar items
• Engaging in conversations using pictures, sensory books, and puppets
• Following simple, one-step directions and asking questions in games and activities
• Learning to respond to her own name
• Identifying basic colors and shapes through art, color-sorting, and shape-sorting activities
• Exploring cause-and-effect through musical instruments and artistic activities
• Sorting and matching objects according to characteristics
• Interacting with other children in games and activities in a group setting
• Developing sharing and listening skills through daily group music and story times
• Learning to understand and express emotions appropriately
• Learning classroom routines and how to use materials properly
• Learning about body parts through songs and rhythms
• Practicing self-care skills including feeding, cleaning, and dressing with teachers assistance
• Crawling, jumping, running, kicking, and tossing
• Enhancing eye-hand coordination through writing, drawing, bouncing, rolling, and lacing
• Pretending and role-playing using age-appropriate props
• Learning to express himself through art
• Participating actively in songs, poems, and stories
• Developing a sense of self through group games and activities