Infants

6 weeks – 18 months

Happy Hearts Infant Care
Glow Worms
6 weeks – mobile
& Inch Worms
mobile-18 months

Teachers facilitate various activities throughout the day based on individual development and needs. Babies enjoy a language rich environment, walks, and enrichment activities with teachers and other children.
Ratio 1:4

Parents must provide formula, wipes, diapers, lotions, weekly bedding, blankets, bibs, pacifiers, teething toys, infant cereal & food w/ utensils.
This supply must be replenished as needed. Everything must be labeled.

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Curriculum Overview: 

  In order to create a successful teaching and learning environment for infants, our teachers facilitate various activities throughout the day based on individual development and needs. Our infants enjoy a language rich environment, walks, and enrichment activities such as tummy time. Tummy time is encouraged through books, songs and stimulating toys. In order to create a successful infant curriculum, we focus on the relationships that are developed between the children, the families, the caregivers, and the classroom environment. We identify four major building blocks to scaffold their development.

Building Block

Program Support

Personal Relationships
  • Teachers develop personal relationship with each infant
  • Teachers learn the signals and communications styles of each infant
  • Teachers respond when infants cry, communicate with respect during routines, during play, and through physical contact
  • Teachers spend individual time with each infant
  • Emotional development is supported through attachment
  • Infants learn to trust

Classroom Environment
  • The classroom environment promotes development and supports social interaction between the infant and caregiver
  • Rugs, pillows and soft chairs create a safe learning environment
  • Sensor motor exploration is supported through the variety of colors, shapes, texture, smells, sounds, and manipulative materials found in the classroom
  • Classroom environments are set up to promote social interaction and build friendships

Family Connections
  • Teachers work with parents and family members to create an environment that supports the individual needs of their infant
  • Teachers keep the lines of communication open by speaking to parents throughout the day
  • Teachers create a trusting relationship that parents and infants can sense
  • Parents are encouraged to send in family photos to hang in the classroom for their infants to look at throughout the day

Caregiving Routines
  • Supports the cognitive and social development of an infant
  • Infants learn that the world is full of routines
  • Teachers honor the individual routines of each infant- the program adapts to the infants needs
  • Infants learn that they can count on adults to meet their needs

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