September 15, 2023

Infants & Toddlers

Our Infant Care and Toddler Care Program is designed to foster early childhood development in a supportive and engaging environment. Discover how our curriculum encourages curiosity and independence in your little one's first steps towards education.
6 weeks - 2 years

About

Infant Daycare Program

Our Montessori-based Infant daycare program ensures a nurturing, safe, and healthy environment. Our program is also a place where children feel loved and are encouraged to explore their environment. Unlike traditional daycare, our programs focuses on development of the whole child.

Toddlers Daycare Program
Our Toddler daycare program helps children develop their cognitive skills, motor skills, sensory skills, language skills, practical life skills, and social skills. Toddlers at our schools will also begin their transition into the Pre-primary preschool classroom. For instance, they do this by working with activities from the five Montessori areas of Language, Math, Practical Life, Sensorial and Cultural Studies.

Infants Schedule

Children Arrive

  • Greeting
  • Routine Care (feeding, diapering, sleeping)
  • Self-directed activities in learning areas
  • Circle time (Music & Movement, Calendar and Story Time)

Mid-Morning

  • Nap for some, routine care for others
  • Planned play: teacher-directed activities for some, self-directed for others
  • Outdoor walk/play

Late Morning

  • Lunch
  • Nap for some, routine care for others
  • Teacher-directed activities for infants who are awake

Mid-Afternoon

  • Routine care
  • Nap for some
  • Teacher-directed activities for infants who are awake
  • Outdoor walk/play

Late Afternoon

  • Songs, finger play, music and movement, story time
  • Self-directed activities in learning areas
  • Routine care

Toddlers Schedule

Children Arrive

  • Greeting
  • Routine Care (breakfast, diapering/potty)
  • Self-directed activities in learning areas
  • Circle time (Music & Movement, Calendar and Story Time)

Mid-Morning

  • Planned Play: teacher-directed activities for some, self-directed for others
  • Snack
  • Outdoor play

Late Morning

  • Lunch
  • Nap for some
  • Teacher-directed activities for toddlers who are awake

Mid-Afternoon

  • Routine care
  • Snack
  • Teacher-directed activities for some, self-directed for other
  • Outdoor play

Late Afternoon

  • Songs, finger play, music and movement, story time
  • Self-directed activities in learning areas
  • Routine care

Infants Program

Cognitive Skills

Focusing on an object; developing a concept of size, color and location. Also working on identifying and matching simple objects and their parts.

Motor Skills

Rolling over, grasping objects, developing the pincer grip, putting shapes into holes, stacking assorted objects, pouring dry material from one container to another.

Sensory Skills

Following movement with the eyes, experiencing different sounds and textures, recognizing patterns. Also, exploring objects in nature, and knowing “warm” and “cold.”

Practical Life Skills

Using basic eating utensils, caring for the environment by cleaning spills, wiping a table, etc. Also caring for self- pouring water, wiping nose, drinking out of a cup.

Language Skills

Naming and identifying objects and pictures to expand vocabulary. Also adding sound effects to stories; following simple directions; identifying objects from their description; and introducing numbers.

Social Skills

Imitating facial expressions and sounds, reaching out and touching objects, recognizing songs and anticipates actions, developing cooperation, interacting with others.

Toddlers Program

Sensory Skills

Identifying colors and matching pairs of objects by color, and identifying and matching objects by pattern and texture. Also identifying different sounds and smells.

Motor Skills

Developing hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity- stringing objects together, placing/removing objects from a certain place. Also transferring objects using the pincer grip.

Cognitive Skills

Developing matching skills, assembling simple puzzles, knowing shapes, and identifying objects that belong to a specific group. Also understanding sequence of events, knowing symbols used for numbers, and focusing on a moving object.

Practical Life Skills

Unrolling and rolling a work mat, sorting and matching objects, caring for the environment by cleaning spills, sweeping, etc. Also caring for self- cutting food into pieces, setting places for meals, pouring liquid from one container to another.

Language Skills

Developing and expanding vocabulary (ten basic body parts, naming colors and pictures in books, practicing basic counting, developing awareness of phonetic sounds, and adding/taking away identical objects).

Social Skills

Practicing sharing and taking turns, watching and imitating body movements, listening to and following directions. Also identifying and naming other children, matching photos to people, and recognizing feelings.

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