Infants through Pre-Kindergarten

Infants and Toddlers Are Competent Learners

We recognize the importance of a strong infant and toddler program, going far beyond babysitting. Infants and toddlers have the most brain activity of any age, and they deserve more than just having their basic care needs met. We balance individualized care with an interactive, explorative learning environment. We provide our children with nurturing, consistent, loving care, and we watch them flourish. Almost every day you can see exciting changes as children learn to trust their teachers, joyfully explore the classroom environment, make discoveries, care about others and begin to see themselves as competent learners.

Low Ratios

As part of commitment to the highest quality standards set by NAEYC, we maintain very low teacher to child ratios, because children need individualized care at this age.

Using the CreativeCurriculum as a basis for our infant and toddler activities and assessments, we help children develop their AQ by giving them opportunities in social/emotional, physical, cognitive and language development. Skills are constantly reinforced in the classroom, and supported by our Extra Curriculur Activities.

Pre-school & Pre-Kindergarten: Challengers & Seekers

Children at this age have the innate desire to seek out knowledge and answers to the endless questions their natural curiosity constantly presents. Our goal is to provide children with an environment that stimulates their interests, and with teachers who take hold of those interests and use them to involve the children in every aspect of their learning.

Young Children are Active Learners

Curriculum planning focuses on action. Plans are tentative, and children modify them with their input and responses. To carry out this approach, teachers engage in an ongoing process of planning, analyzing, observing and evaluating the children's activities, ideas, needs and interests.

Activity Planning

Curriculum is personalized for the children in the classroom, not handed down from a corporate office where they can know nothing about your child except their age. Curriculum planning for each of our classrooms is based on:

1. understanding of developmentally appropriate objectives;
2. sensitivity to children's personal experiences and interests;
3. knowing that children learn through first-hand observation, play, and direct experience; and
4. careful observation of all their communication-both verbal and non-verbal and their interaction with their environment, other children and teachers.

Documentation

We value documentation as a central element of our program for one main reason: making children's learning visible to the children and the parents. Our Discovery Reports are emailed to parents daily with photos and comments from that morning so that you can closely follow your child's learning experience and communicate with your teachers about their learning.