In the infant room, our main focus is bonding, trusting, loving and respecting the child’s personal growth. Our teachers bond with each child while giving them personal attention and love, and speak to the child so that connections are starting to form. We assist them while they have many new experiences: rolling over, sitting up, new foods, pulling up, and even taking first steps. At this level every child has their own personalized schedule, and we read, sing, and love them during their awake time. Our infant room is a great place to start!

Our one year old rooms are a mixture of both parent and teacher directed, taking the best of both worlds and putting them together to start independent self-help skills, learning about simple emotions, feelings, trusting, connecting, self-awareness. Our main focus for our one year olds is language development. We bridge the gap of language by mixing in some simple baby signing. Our creative teachers keep our one year olds busy and happy.

Two year olds begin to experience more structure in their day by learning social skills, continuing more complex language development, and creative thematic studies. Our parents watch as they see their child learning patience and becoming excited about the studies that they are doing at school, which include children’s literature, art, beginning math skills, letter recognition, and dramatic play. The two year olds have an exciting year as they really start to dig in and learn more difficult ideas and concepts, and parents see the educational process beginning.

Our three year old classes allow the individual child to explore and gain independence, and essentially put to use all the connections made prior to this class. They really start blossoming socially, and start to engage in reciprocal play with their classmates. They continue their creative thematic lessons and studies, and start preparing for kindergarten through learning cooperation, working together, and learning together. Threes need lots of developmental play, therefore the classroom and teacher are equipped to set up developmental learning centers so that the child is playing and learning simultaneously, while learning and expressing themselves creatively.

Finally our PreK class is time for making our final connections that prepare them for Kindergarten. As early learning care givers, we prepare the child for a step into the new stages of learning. We introduce a variety of reading readiness skills, sight words, and language skills. Writing skills are practiced, as well as a healthy amount of creative expression. We use this age to take full advantage of the commitment we made at infancy to guide and help them become confident, strong, and bright young individuals. Our campers leave us ready to take on Kindergarten!