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At Foundations for Learning, our goal is to create a home-like environment in which infants can grow, develop, and learn.

We believe that each baby is unique; therefore they have their own needs. Our staff is focused on individualizing their child care methods by:

• Working with parents to set up a feeding, sleeping, and diapering schedule
• Working with parents to ensure that every child is working towards accomplishing the appropriate development milestones.
• Providing each child with their own crib and mobile
• Providing each child with their own cubbie and family mailbox
• Providing each child with a daily record sheet of what their child did

The experiences that infants have during the early months and years are crucial to healthy brain development. From birth, infants show a wide variety of physical, social and emotional capabilities. Our infant curriculum provides each child with the attention they need to develop physically, socially, and emotionally.

Physical

• Your child will learn to sit up unassisted, crawl, and to walk with help and support of the teachers.
• Your child will learn to begin the process of self feeding as they become ready, which helps to develop fine motor skills.
• Your child will be encouraged to spend time on the tummies for development of gross motor skills.
• Your child will begin to switch from using reflexes to controlling muscle movements.

Social

• Your child will learn to interact and relate to both teachers and peers.
• Your child will learn to use facial expressions, movements, and vocalizations.
• Your child will learn that they can affect others through their actions.

Emotional

• Your child will begin to develop bonds with teachers and peers.
• Your child will begin to recognize teachers and peers.
• Your child will learn to regulate their emotions.
• Your child will learn to use movements and language to express their emotions.

Language

• Your child will communicate using sounds, facial expressions, and body movements.
• Your child will learn to use sign language to communicate their needs.
• Your child will begin responding by smiling, waving, kicking, and turning their heads.
• Your child will begin using easy words such as: mama, dada, bye-bye

Cognition

• As your child’s vision and grasp increases they will begin to focus and explore objects.
• Your child will use their hands and mouths to explore object properties such as hard, soft, rough, smooth, big, and little.
• As your child experiences predictable routines they will begin to anticipate events such as, a teacher picking up a diaper means that a child will be changed soon.
• Your child will begin to understand cause and effect such as; I drop my cup then my teacher/parent will pick it up.
• Your child will begin to question the world around them. For example, they will frequently hand you an object as a way of asking a question about the object.

Our infant classroom prides itself on providing lots of personal attention and interaction between the teachers and the children.

Our curriculum includes a diversity of activities to stimulate the child’s interest: music, art, sensory, dramatic play, gross motor time, and fine motor time. We are committed to providing a cozy and safe environment for you children and look forward to working cooperatively with you and your child(ren).