Infants (ages 6 weeks - 12 months)
Major developmental milestones
Infants learn to:
- Trust
- Communicate
- Anticipate the future through past experiences
- Connect sights, sounds, and sensations
- Experience cause and effect
- Develop a sense of self
- Develop physically
- Develop a sense of autonomy
Daily activities for infants
- Lap Time
- Art
- Blocks
- Literacy
- Exploration
- Movement & Music
- Fine Motor
- Outdoor Play
- Meals and rest time
Toddlers (ages 13 - 35 months)
Because toddlers grow and develop so much over two years, we provide separate classrooms for younger toddlers (age 13-23 months) and older ones (24-35 months), but the same goals and curriculum standards apply to all toddlers.
Major developmental milestones
Toddlers learn to:
- Explore
- Accept and set limits
- Increase their ability to remember
- Increase communication skills
- Express themselves constructively and creatively
- Be more independent
- Understand cause and effect and impact on others
- Sequence events
- Understand what remains the same even when they're not looking
- Handle a wider range of situations
- Share
- Respect themselves
Daily activities for toddlers
- Circle Time
- Dramatic Play
- Art
- Blocks
- Literacy / Library
- Math
- Science & Exploration
- Movement & Music
- Table Toys & Fine Motor
- Outdoor Play
- Meals and rest time
Preschoolers (ages 36 months - 5 years)
Major developmental milestones
Preschoolers learn to:
- Control their actions
- Understand more about their relations with others
- Have a strong self concept
- Understand and deal with fears/excitement/frustration/other strong emotions
- Expand language and other expressive capabilities
- Enjoy imaginative play
- Progress in pre-reading skills
- Become more independent
Daily activities for preschoolers
- Circle Time
- Dramatic Play
- Art
- Blocks
- Literacy / Library
- Math
- Science & Exploration
- Movement & Music
- Table Toys & Fine Motor
- Computers
- Outdoor Play
- Meals and rest time
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