(@ Walking to 18 months depending on your child’s development)

Our curriculum addresses an infant’s growth and development by creating strong bonds and encouraging learning through play. Understanding how young children learn is essential to providing an environment which supports an infant’s development.

The mobile infant who is starting to crawl depends on a sense of security as a base for strong interest in exploration. Exploration is key for infants as they are striving to make sense of the world around them. They are progressing from hearing to listening, feeling to touching, and from being held to moving around. And our infant rooms are the perfect, safe environments for little ones to discover their bodily powers as they learn to move, pull up and roll over.

The infant caregivers lovingly implement activities to enable children to bond and connect - developing from having only instinctual behavior to learning basic trust. Our caregivers encourage language development from giggles to vocalization through imitation.

Every interaction is another opportunity to learn and develop. Motor, intellectual, social and language development are all closely intertwined. For example, infants needs opportunities to use their bodies freely in order to learn about space, movement and the effects their actions have on objects and the people around them.

Each week, all areas of development are covered by introducing appropriate activities that address each infant’s individual needs. As an infant matures, their schedule tends to becomes more structured and organized. Nurturing caregivers weave the activity plans into the child’s needs to sleep, eat and to just be held.