Mobile Infants:
Once in the Mobile Infant room, children continue working on their gross and fine motor skills. The children enjoy being read to, singing songs, and having lots of free play with the soft climbing structures and infant slides that allow them to work their muscles. They also strengthen their fine motor skills through daily craft activities like finger painting, as well as starting to hold their own spoons when they are ready. The sensory exploration continues for children this age - they love to feel the difference between warm and cold or rough and soft, seeing bubbles being blown and pop and hearing, and making, quiet and loud noises.
Once in the Mobile Infant room, children continue working on their gross and fine motor skills. The children enjoy being read to, singing songs, and having lots of free play with the soft climbing structures and infant slides that allow them to work their muscles. They also strengthen their fine motor skills through daily craft activities like finger painting, as well as starting to hold their own spoons when they are ready. The sensory exploration continues for children this age - they love to feel the difference between warm and cold or rough and soft, seeing bubbles being blown and pop and hearing, and making, quiet and loud noises.
Infants:
The babies in our infant rooms can begin at the age of six weeks. We have a looping system where infants stay with the same teachers until two years of age. They spend a lot of time being held and rocked, and the rooms are filled with brightly colored, high quality infant toys including soft climbers, jumpers, exersaucers and bouncy seats. The teachers sing songs and play age-appropriate games with the babies.
The babies in our infant rooms can begin at the age of six weeks. We have a looping system where infants stay with the same teachers until two years of age. They spend a lot of time being held and rocked, and the rooms are filled with brightly colored, high quality infant toys including soft climbers, jumpers, exersaucers and bouncy seats. The teachers sing songs and play age-appropriate games with the babies.
Early Toddlers:
Early Toddlers have a semi-structured morning meeting, where they sing songs, read stories and talk about what they are going to do that day. Early Toddlers continue to work on fine and gross motor growth through a multitude of activities. As the toddlers learn to talk, they are constantly given positive reinforcement for communication.
Early Toddlers have a semi-structured morning meeting, where they sing songs, read stories and talk about what they are going to do that day. Early Toddlers continue to work on fine and gross motor growth through a multitude of activities. As the toddlers learn to talk, they are constantly given positive reinforcement for communication.
Toddlers:
Children in the toddler rooms continue to have a lot of free play, with toys and activities relevant to their developmental growth like train tables and doll houses, dress-up clothes for pretend play and play dough for continued fine motor skills and creativity. The toddlers also spend a lot of time outside, and begin to learn more independence like self-help skills, taking turns and listening. They also continue their practice of increased communication and using gentle words and touches with friends.
Children in the toddler rooms continue to have a lot of free play, with toys and activities relevant to their developmental growth like train tables and doll houses, dress-up clothes for pretend play and play dough for continued fine motor skills and creativity. The toddlers also spend a lot of time outside, and begin to learn more independence like self-help skills, taking turns and listening. They also continue their practice of increased communication and using gentle words and touches with friends.
Classrooms
Pre-School:
Pre-schoolers do a lot of exploring- through free play and socialization and through science, language arts, math, visual perception, art and sensory centers set up in the classroom. How does popcorn sound, look, feel, taste? What do magnets do? What new colors form when paints are mixed? They also play outside as often as they can and take on special classroom jobs to begin teaching responsibility and community building.
Pre-Kindergarten:
Pre-Kindergarten students begin to learn letters, numbers and counting skills. They enjoy science lessons like hatching butterflies and finding animal tracks in the snow and artwork that includes painting, beading, cutting, gluing and playdough. The children make their own books, count numbers of letters in a word and words on a page and learn to identify titles and authors of books. As they prepare to head off to Kindergarten, our Pre-Kindergarten students also continue to practice independence, manners, listening skills and tolerance of others.
Pre-Kindergarten students begin to learn letters, numbers and counting skills. They enjoy science lessons like hatching butterflies and finding animal tracks in the snow and artwork that includes painting, beading, cutting, gluing and playdough. The children make their own books, count numbers of letters in a word and words on a page and learn to identify titles and authors of books. As they prepare to head off to Kindergarten, our Pre-Kindergarten students also continue to practice independence, manners, listening skills and tolerance of others.
