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curriculum

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Infant competence is enhanced by the development of attachment and a good reciprocal relationship with caregivers that can only be accomplished with love and warmth, which is the most basic and important foundation of our center.

We interact with infants holding them, talking with them, labeling and identifying objects and sounds with them (colors, animals, means of transportation, food, other), singing to them, strengthening them physically with exercise (by moving their arms and legs, providing tummy time, helping them rolling over, cruise and practice walking), imitating them, producing familiar sounds (emotions, animal sounds, means of transportation, other), playing with age appropriate games (hiding objects, peekaboo, playing with puppets and dolls), providing them with toys and experiences that fit infant development levels and sensorimotor states (i.e. sharing activities such as rolling a ball back and forth, other), reading to them with age appropriate books, and more.

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Infants

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We engage in full conversations with them while continuing to label and show them as much as possible everything that is being talked about.

We provide them with hands on experience to enhance learning obtained through language (i.e. nature walk showing them the trees, insects, flowers and leaves, all the changes that come with each season, pictures, paintings, and the like).

We begin to introduce them to fine motor skill activities such as coloring while identifying colors and shapes, finger painting, tracing shapes that lead to writing letters and numbers in the next age group activities, and verbal identification of letters and numbers.

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Toddlers and Two's:

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Three year olds continue to practice colors, shapes, letters, and numbers identification while beginning to learn to write their names, ABC's, and numbers up to 100. ABC phoenix and rhymes are introduced, as well as writing and reading basic every day words.

Three-Five year olds:

Our children are in touch with developmentally appropriate activities since infanthood involving the five senses (touch, sight, hearing, smelling and taste). Our age specific development activities include: