Infant Care

Cognitive Development

Helping Your Baby Make Sense of Their Environment

Our educators nurture this critical stage in your child's development by allowing them to respond, adapt to, and learn about their surroundings using all of their senses. By engaging in activities that help them make associations between sights and sounds, children develop an awareness of their environment.

Key Focus Areas

• Understanding object permanence
• Creating sensory experiences
• Exploring similarities and differences with objects
• Engaging in imaginative play

Language & Communications

Learning How to Express Wants and Needs

Our educators are constantly communicating with your infant to help them make sense of sounds and speech patterns. They’re engaged in activities to help them express and understand both verbal sounds and nonverbal body language.

Key Focus Areas

• Learning words in sign language
• Responding to and imitating sounds and rhymes
• Identifying facial expressions and sounds
• Discovering the joy of books
• Recognizing familiar voices

Social & Emotional Growth

Nurturing Environment for Socialization and Personalized Care

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

Key Focus Areas

• Nurturing healthy relationships
• Developing familiarity with other children
• Learning self-awareness
• Displaying social gestures
• Imitating actions of others

Gross & Fine Motor Skills

Developing Strength and Coordination

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

Key Focus Areas

• Developing core muscle groups
• Engaging in sensory play
• Experiencing active movements indoors and outdoors
• Grasping objects
• Emerging eye-hand coordination

Character Essentials^®

Introducing Your Child to a Wide Variety of Character Traits

Through our proprietary Character Essentials curriculum and nurturing everyday experiences, we incorporate themes adapted to each age group that help children better understand themselves and each other. Character development activities are individualized to each child.

Key Focus Areas

• Bonding and connections with peers
• Social and emotional support
• Confidence-building techniques
• Self-regulation

Music & More

Learning Through Song and Movement

Research shows music improves cognitive development, learning skills, communication, and memory. Our age-appropriate curriculum develops your child’s language skills and teaches them about our world through song using our proprietary Music and More program.

Key Focus Areas

• Listening to music
• Exploring instruments
• Developing rhythm and tempo through dance
• Tracking the source of sound
• Recognizing songs

Learn On^®

Learning Beyond the Classroom

There is no end to learning, and there is potential in every moment, everywhere. We designed our Life Essentials curriculum with this in mind, giving you access to projects and activities that extend the learning from your child’s classroom to your home through our Academy Link^® app.