Infant

Infant Program (Six weeks to 12 months) - "Little Miracles"

Bringing an infant into the childcare environment can be delicate. We're attentive to each infant and create an environment in which the infant remains comfortable so that they may thrive. In each infant room, we cultivate the teacher-child bond, as this builds a sense of confidence in the child. Senses are developing at this time, so we want to take advantage of this early learning time

Our Little Miracles curriculum is designed to develop and reinforce each infant’s individuality. Children participate in sensory-based learning experiences, while receiving positive, nurturing guidance from a qualified All About Kids’ teacher. Teachers assess an infant’s developing skills, and then provide infant daycare activities designed to increase those skills.

At All About Kids, we strongly believe in the formation of loving, trusting bonds between infants and their teachers. Each child is assigned a primary teacher, and that teacher is responsible first and foremost for meeting your infant’s needs. This practice promotes a deeper understanding of your child’s personality, likes, dislikes, and developmental needs and creates a true community of infant child care.

Areas of Development

The Little Miracles infant daycare curriculum focuses on your infant’s primary areas of development.

Emotional Skills: Little Miracles encourages infants to explore their emotions. Teachers spend time singing, playing with puppets, and dancing to make your child feel happy and secure.

Social Skills: Little Miracles strives to instill social skills in our youngest community members. We start by helping your infant become aware of other people, and move on to imitating hand and facial gestures.

Communication Skills: All About Kids’ Little Miracles contains many activities designed to increase your infant’s communication skills, which include listening and making sounds. Infants observe themselves in a child-safe mirror as they make a variety of sounds, and they are spoken to constantly by their teachers. Older infants are encouraged to make animal sounds and to say the names of family members.

Fine Motor Skills: Infants’ fine motor skills, which include finger and hand movements, need to be stimulated in many different ways in order for them to improve. Little Miracles offers a wide variety of fine motor skill activities for your infant, from simply shaking a rattle, to scooping up finger foods, to raking his hands through a container of cornmeal.

Gross Motor Skills: Little Miracles addresses all of your infant’s gross motor skills, which include reaching for objects, kicking, sitting, and walking. Infants are encouraged to lie on their stomachs and look at and reach for books and toys to increase their core muscle strength. Infants may even participate in an obstacle course to motivate them to crawl or walk.

Cognitive Skills: Cognitive skills are the foundation of learning and knowledge.  Little Miracles focuses on infants’ explorations of their environment. Your infant will be encouraged to make associations based on prior knowledge and explore the concept of cause and effect by dumping out toys, building and knocking down towers, and manipulating stacking rings.