Kid's Experiencing Their First Year of Learning
It takes big hearts to shape little minds.
Infant Room
Kid's First Infant Program offers a loving and caring environment with appropriate play experience to contribute to their physical, emotional, intellectual, and social development. The toys and materials will attract the attention and challenge the ingenuity of the children. The time will be spent encouraging the children to get along with one another, learning to become independent, and learning new skills. A typical day will include the following: feeding time, changing time, reading time, singing time, sleeping time, exploring time, playing time, and outdoor time. Each day will be different with many activities for the child to develop both their minds and bodies in a safe and healthy place.
Our Curriculum
Social
Development
Focuses on faces, makes eye contact, awareness of strangers
Emotional Development
Responds to peek-a-boo, waves bye-bye
Language
Utter sounds, repeats familiar sounds, vocalizes
Cognitive
Grasps small objects, uncovers hidden objects, sustains activity
Fine/Gross Motor
Skills
Begins to turn head, sits without support, rolls a ball. Grasps tiny objects, follows moving objects.
Infant Goals and Objectives
1.
To care for infants in a warm, affectionate way that lets each child know that they are a special person.
2.
Meet each child's social, emotional, and physical needs.
3.
Implement and follow infection control procedures that are required to protect the health and safety of all children.
4.
Provide opportunities for exploring, learning, and social interaction through a variety of age appropriate activities, on a daily basis.
5.
Prepare activities to stimulate the senses recognizing that infants learn through the use of their eyes, ears, fingers, sense of taste, and smell.
6.
Care for children in small groups, to prevent over-stimulation.
7.
Provide opportunity for the use of fine and gross motor skills.
11.
Provide a certain consistency between the center and parents that will be most beneficial to the infant.
12.
Establish an observation system in which notes on children are kept.
13.
Be supportive of parents, encouraging involvement, encouraging open and honest communication while using tact and discretion.
14.
Develop staff potential through supervision, by making expectations clear.
15.
Inform parents daily about their child's feedings, diaper changes and their activities.
16.
Create time and materials for free spontaneous play for creating, investigating, and experimenting.
17.
Provide a warm and homelike environment to help the children feel comortable and secure.