Infant Care

Focus: Helping your baby make sense of their environment.

Our teachers nurture this critical stage in your infant's development by allowing them to respond to, adapt to and learn about their surroundings using all of their senses. They're engaged in activities that help them make associations between sounds and sights and develop an awareness of their environment.

Infant Activities

• Understanding object permanence (that objects exist even when they can't be sensed) through educational games.
• Creating sensory memories by exploring different textures and sounds with toys.
• Understanding similarities and likenesses by sorting colored or shaped objects and solving puzzles.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Play peekaboo to help your infant understand object permanence (that objects exist even when they can’t be sensed).
• Play with toys that make different sounds and have different textures to create sensory memories.
• Play with puzzles to develop an understanding of similarities and likenesses by sorting colored or shaped objects.

Focus: Building trust with adults and other infants.

We create a safe and secure environment by providing warm, nurturing, personalized care and responding to your infant's signals. Your child will see many different, yet consistent and familiar faces and engage in activities that encourage cooperation and imaginative play.

Infant Activities

• Nurturing attachments with familiar adults.
• Playing near and developing familiarity with other infants and teachers.
• Learning self-awareness through songs.
• Displaying social gestures through interactive materials.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Have members of your family hug, cradle and praise the baby to nurture attachments with familiar people.
• Sing “Where is Baby?” to help develop a sense of self-awareness.
• Read the poem, “Wave, Wave, Wave” to help baby learn social gestures like waving.

Focus: Strengthening your baby's finger, hand, arm and leg muscles.

Our teachers assist your infant's physical development through tasks that improve coordination, accuracy and balance. They receive encouragement and positive reinforcement every step of the way.

Infant Activities

• Learning to lift, hold and turn their head, roll over, sit up and crawl.
• Developing leg muscles using objects that support walking.
• Learning to feed themselves by holding bottles on their own.
• Engaging in sensory play, including finger painting, play dough and blocks covered in different fabrics.
• Exploring the outdoors through daily walks in strollers and playing outside in the playground.

Learn On^®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

• Give your baby “tummy time” so they can practice lifting, turning and holding their head; rolling over; sitting up; and crawling.
• Use toy strollers, grocery carts or other objects that support walking to help your infant develop strong leg muscles.
• Use finger painting, play dough, bags and blocks covered in different fabrics to have sensory play time with your child.
• Explore the outdoors through daily walks in strollers and playing outside.

Focus: Keeping your infant healthy and safe.

Health Essentials is a set of CDC-based standard operating procedures that can help mitigate the spread of potential infection throughout our Academy. Health Essentials is a key part of our overall COVID-19 response, expanding upon existing disinfection and health protocols that offer parents and staff peace of mind and demonstrates our commitment to creating a healthy and safe environment for learning and working.

1. Wellness Education

The solution starts with an understanding.

• Children learn how following proper hygienic practices can keep them healthy
• Academy staff receives training and must abide by enhanced health and safety practices outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. Enhanced Hygiene

Soap and water is the best solution.

• Soap and water offer the simplest solution to combat infection
• Staff increase handwashing frequency
• All children must wash their hands upon entering their room at the start of each day and all recommended times thereafter in addition to following standard Academy handwashing procedures

3. Healthy Environment

A clean facility keeps families safe.

Academies adhere to advanced cleaning procedures:

• Nightly cleaning
• Daily laundering of soft items and bedding
• Limiting items brought into the Academy

4. Symptom Monitoring

Keeping a watchful eye

• Temperature monitoring at the Academy entrance.
• Track symptoms using AcademyLink^®
• Isolate symptomatic children from others immediately upon observation
• Contact parents for pickup from the Academy
• Daily health check is completed upon arrival