Our Rooms

When you visit a program, how can you tell if it’s also safe and supportive for your baby? Here are things to look for:

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• A soothing environment

• Defined areas

• Secure open spaces both in and out doors

• Personal touches

• Simple, interesting materials

• Child-size furniture

• Small physical challenges

• Diverse books

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All our caregivers plan experiences that are challenging our little ones as well as provide a balanced schedule so they get the sleep they need, eat healthy food, move around, explore interesting objects, learn how to get along with others, and actively help with her own care as much as they can. 

Through teacher-guided learning during small- and large-group experiences that stretch children’s learning. Some strategies they use during these times include:

• Giving children many opportunities to practice new skills

• Offering choices so children become more independent and take responsibility for their learning

• Asking questions that lead to more than one right answer

• Giving hints to help children figure out things

• Providing information and directions

• Adding challenges when children are ready for them

• Giving them time to find their own solutions and offering help if children seem stuck or frustrated

• Encouraging children to keep trying and to judge his own efforts

Educators use every moment to help children learn-including mealtimes, cleanup, and outdoor playtime.

Our toddler program focuses on four main areas of your child’s development:

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• Physical development including their love to climb, jump, and dance!

• Social and Emotional Development where educators model behaviors like sharing and apologizing so children learn by example 

• Thinking (cognitive) skills which is your child’s ability to make sense of the world around him. It includes memory, language, thinking, and reasoning. 

• Language development is encouraged by educators spending a lot of time talking to children so that they learn how words should sound and how conversations go back and forth.

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High quality programs use developmentally appropriate practice by providing challenges that are not to hard or too easy-sometimes toddlers can do with a little help. It also means that we choose materials, activities, and strategies that think about what most toddlers need, individual needs, and ways to support every child’s family and culture.

No two preschoolers look or feel exactly the same which increases the need to build on what each child already knows and can do. Opportunities are provided through materials and experiences that are challenging, but that children can do with a little help. Developmentally appropriate practice means:

• Teaching based on each child’s age and stage of development

• Helping each child meet goals that are just right for that child

• Valuing and including each child’s family, language, and culture 

Using what we already know about your, staff set goals and they keep track of learning so they know what children are ready to learn next.