Programs

Infant Daycare (Six weeks to 12 months)

"New
    Beginnings"

Early childhood development is critically important. Along with experienced teachers and staff, Kiddie Academy’s^® Life Essentials^® helps facilitate this key period of learning in our infant centers. And that’s what separates us from traditional infant child care facilities.

Our New Beginnings curriculum is designed to develop and reinforce each infant’s individuality. Children participate in sensory-based learning experiences, while receiving positive, nurturing guidance from a qualified Kiddie Academy teacher. Teachers assess an infant’s developing skills, and then provide infant daycare activities designed to increase those skills.

At Kiddie Academy, we strongly believe in the formation of loving, trusting bonds between infants and their teachers. Each child is assigned a primary teacher, and that teacher is responsible first and foremost for meeting your infant’s needs. This practice promotes a deeper understanding of your child’s personality, likes, dislikes, and developmental needs and creates a true community of infant child care.

Areas of Development

The New Beginnings infant daycare curriculum focuses on your infant’s primary areas of development.

Emotional Skills: New Beginnings encourages infants to explore their emotions. Teachers spend time singing, playing with puppets, and dancing to make your child feel happy and secure.

Social Skills: New Beginnings strives to instill social skills in our youngest community members. We start by helping your infant become aware of other people, and move on to imitating hand and facial gestures.

Communication Skills: Kiddie Academy’s New Beginnings contains many activities designed to increase your infant’s communication skills, which include listening and making sounds. Infants observe themselves in a child-safe mirror as they make a variety of sounds, and they are spoken to constantly by their teachers. Older infants are encouraged to make animal sounds and to say the names of family members.

Fine Motor Skills: Infants’ fine motor skills, which include finger and hand movements, need to be stimulated in many different ways in order for them to improve. New Beginnings offers a wide variety of fine motor skill activities for your infant, from simply shaking a rattle, to scooping up finger foods, to raking his hands through a container of cornmeal.

Gross Motor Skills: New Beginnings addresses all of your infant’s gross motor skills, which include reaching for objects, kicking, sitting, and walking. Infants are encouraged to lie on their stomachs and look at and reach for books and toys to increase their core muscle strength. Infants may even participate in an obstacle course to motivate them to crawl or walk.

Cognitive Skills: Cognitive skills are the foundation of learning and knowledge. New Beginnings focuses on infants’ explorations of their environment. Your infant will be encouraged to make associations based on prior knowledge and explore the concept of cause and effect by dumping out toys, building and knocking down towers, and manipulating stacking rings.