"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". Nelson Mandela
Infant Program
Environment
Our Infant Care Program provides a warm, nurturing, and responsive environment for babies 6 weeks through 12 months of age. We understand that every infant is unique, which is why each child is cared for according to their own individualized schedule and needs, while going above and beyond all state licensing rules and regulations by being apart of a Pyramid Model Initiative Site, requiring higher standards and credentials.
Our teachers work closely with families to maintain consistency between home and the center. Infants are fed, changed, and put down for naps according to their individual routines rather than a one-size-fits-all classroom schedule.
Materials
Each infant has their own designated crib, providing a familiar and comfortable space for rest.
Families provide bottles, diapers, formula or breast milk, and food once solids are introduced. The Whole Child Center provides wipes and crib linens for your child while in our care.
Documentation
Throughout the day, teachers carefully document each infant’s feedings, diaper changes, and naps, so families have a clear picture of their baby’s day. We value open communication with parents and believe that a strong partnership between families and caregivers is an important part of providing exceptional infant care.
Quality Care
Most importantly, our infant classrooms are designed to be a safe, loving, and engaging first environment for learning. Through nurturing interactions, age-appropriate play, tummy time, movement, songs, stories, and plenty of individual attention, our teachers support each baby’s social, emotional, physical, and developmental growth as they reach new milestones during their first year. We also have lower ratios than the State Licensing standards, we provide a 3:1 Staff/ Child ratio because of the importance of emphasis on a responsive level of care.
One Year Program
Our One-Year-Old Program is an active, nurturing environment designed for a year filled with exciting growth and discovery. As children become more mobile, curious, and independent, our teachers provide plenty of opportunities to explore, communicate, play, and build new skills in a safe and supportive setting.
Schedule
Children in our one-year-old classrooms follow a consistent daily schedule, including meals and snacks, indoor and outdoor play, learning activities, and rest time. Throughout the day, teachers document each child’s meals, snacks, diaper changes, and naps, keeping families informed about their child’s daily routine and care.
Language Development
At this age, language and communication development are an important part of each day. Teachers encourage new words through conversation, repetition, songs, stories, and naming familiar people and objects. We also incorporate simple sign language to give children another way to communicate their wants and needs as their verbal language develops.
Motor Development
One-year-olds are constantly on the move! Our program provides opportunities to strengthen gross and fine motor skills through walking, climbing, dancing, pushing and pulling toys, stacking, grasping, sensory activities, and other hands-on experiences. Children are encouraged to safely explore their environment and develop greater coordination, balance, and confidence in their physical abilities.
Learning Through Play
Play is at the heart of learning at this age. Through both teacher-guided activities and child-led exploration, children begin developing early problem-solving skills, curiosity, creativity, and independence. Stories, music, art, sensory experiences, and age-appropriate toys and materials are incorporated throughout the day.
We place a strong emphasis on outdoor play and exploration, giving children opportunities for fresh air, movement, and discovering the world around them. Outdoor time provides a wonderful setting for developing physical skills while experiencing nature, different textures, sounds, and seasonal changes.
Social & Emotional Development
Social and emotional development is equally important. One-year-olds are beginning to form relationships with their teachers and peers, express their emotions and preferences, imitate others, and learn the earliest concepts of sharing, taking turns, empathy, and playing alongside other children. Our teachers provide reassurance, encouragement, and positive guidance as children develop these important skills.
Throughout this stage, we celebrate each child’s individual development—from first words and growing vocabularies to walking, climbing, feeding themselves, following simple directions, identifying familiar objects, and becoming increasingly independent. Our goal is to provide a loving environment where every child feels secure and confident as they learn through play, relationships, movement, and exploration.
Two Year Program
Our Two-Year-Old Program is designed for a wonderfully busy stage of development when children are becoming increasingly independent, expressive, social, and curious about the world around them. Through a balance of structured routines and play-based learning, our teachers provide a nurturing environment where children can explore new interests, practice emerging skills, and gain confidence in what they can do on their own.
Children follow a consistent daily classroom schedule that includes meals and snacks, learning activities, free play, outdoor time, stories, music and movement, and rest. Teachers continue to document each child’s meals and snacks, diapering or toileting, and naps, providing families with information about their child’s day.
Language & Communication
Language development grows tremendously during the two-year-old year. Teachers encourage children to expand their vocabulary, begin combining words into phrases and sentences, name familiar people and objects, express their wants and needs, and follow simple directions. Stories, songs, conversations, repetition, and imaginative play are incorporated throughout the day to encourage communication and a love of language.
We continue to use simple sign language when helpful, while encouraging children to increasingly communicate through spoken language.
Learning Through Play
Two-year-olds learn best by doing. Our classrooms provide plenty of opportunities for hands-on exploration, sensory play, art, building, puzzles, pretend play, matching and sorting, and early exposure to colors, shapes, numbers, and other basic concepts.
Children are encouraged to make choices, experiment, solve simple problems, and use their imaginations. These everyday experiences help develop early thinking skills while allowing children to learn at their own pace.
Growing Bodies & Motor Skills
Our program supports developing gross motor skills through running, jumping, climbing, dancing, balancing, throwing and kicking balls, and other active play. Outdoor play is an important part of our daily routine and gives children the space to move their bodies, explore nature, and build confidence in their physical abilities.
Fine motor development is encouraged through activities such as drawing and scribbling, stacking blocks, completing simple puzzles, manipulating play dough, turning pages, using utensils, and other hands-on activities that strengthen coordination and prepare children for more advanced skills.
Social & Emotional Development
At two, children are beginning to develop a stronger sense of “me” and independence while also learning how to be part of a group. Teachers help children begin practicing sharing, taking turns, playing alongside and with peers, recognizing emotions, and using words to communicate feelings and needs.
Big emotions are a normal part of being two! Our teachers provide patient, positive guidance to help children begin learning self-regulation, appropriate ways to express emotions, and simple strategies for working through frustrations and conflicts.
Building Independence
Two-year-olds love to do things for themselves, and we encourage that growing independence throughout the day. Children are given opportunities to practice feeding themselves, washing their hands, helping with simple cleanup, making choices, following classroom routines, and completing age-appropriate tasks independently.
As children begin showing signs of readiness, teachers also work in partnership with families to support the transition from diapers to toilet learning, approaching the process positively and according to each child’s individual developmental readiness.
Throughout the year, we celebrate all of the growth that happens during this exciting stage—from expanding language and imaginative play to stronger physical abilities, friendships, independence, and emerging self-help skills. Our goal is to provide a safe, loving, playful environment where children feel confident exploring, learning, and becoming increasingly independent each day.
Three Year Program
Our Three-Year-Old Program is designed for a stage filled with imagination, conversation, growing independence, and an eagerness to learn. At three, children are beginning to better understand the world around them, form meaningful friendships, communicate their ideas, and take greater responsibility for themselves. Our teachers provide a nurturing, play-based environment that encourages children to explore these new abilities while building the skills they will need as they move toward preschool.
Children follow a consistent daily classroom schedule that includes meals and snacks, learning activities, free choice and center play, outdoor time, stories, music and movement, creative experiences, and rest. Teachers continue to communicate with families about important parts of each child’s day and developmental progress.
Language & Early Literacy
Three-year-olds are rapidly expanding their vocabulary and becoming much more conversational. Teachers encourage children to speak in longer sentences, ask and answer questions, describe their experiences, follow multi-step directions, and participate in conversations with adults and peers.
Daily stories, songs, rhymes, and classroom conversations help develop listening comprehension, vocabulary, storytelling, and early literacy skills. Children also begin exploring letters, recognizing their own names, noticing print in their environment, and developing an understanding that written words have meaning.
Early Math & Thinking Skills
Learning happens naturally through hands-on experiences and play. Children are introduced to early concepts such as counting, colors, shapes, patterns, sorting, matching, comparing sizes and quantities, and recognizing similarities and differences.
Puzzles, building materials, science and sensory activities, and open-ended questions encourage children to think creatively, make predictions, solve simple problems, and understand cause and effect.
Learning Through Play & Imagination
Pretend play becomes especially important at three. Our classrooms provide opportunities for dramatic play, building, art, sensory exploration, music, movement, and open-ended activities that allow children to use their imaginations and express their own ideas.
Through play, children practice language, problem-solving, cooperation, creativity, and many of the social skills they are developing at this age.
Physical Development
Children are given plenty of opportunities to strengthen their growing bodies through running, jumping, climbing, balancing, throwing, catching, dancing, and other active movement. Outdoor play continues to be an important part of our program, providing opportunities for exercise, exploration, nature experiences, and developing confidence in physical abilities.
Fine motor activities such as drawing, painting, using play dough, stringing beads, building, completing puzzles, and beginning to use child-safe scissors strengthen the small muscles and hand-eye coordination that will eventually support writing and other classroom skills.
Social & Emotional Development
Three-year-olds are moving from primarily playing alongside one another to becoming increasingly interested in playing together and forming friendships. Teachers help children practice sharing, taking turns, cooperating, joining group activities, and beginning to solve simple conflicts with words.
Children are also becoming better able to identify and communicate their emotions. Teachers help them learn to name their feelings, recognize how others may be feeling, develop empathy, manage frustration, and begin using age-appropriate strategies to regulate their emotions.
Independence & Self-Help Skills
Growing independence is encouraged throughout the classroom. Children practice washing their hands, cleaning up after themselves, putting away belongings, using utensils, making choices, following classroom routines, and completing simple tasks with less adult assistance.
Toileting independence is also an important developmental area during this stage. Teachers work collaboratively with families to support each child as they become increasingly independent with using the toilet, managing clothing, washing their hands, and recognizing their own body’s needs.
Preparing for the Next Step
Throughout the three-year-old year, children begin developing the skills that create a strong foundation for future learning. Rather than focusing only on academics, we emphasize the whole child—communication, curiosity, creativity, physical development, independence, confidence, and the ability to participate successfully in a classroom community.
Our goal is for each child to leave the Three-Year-Old Program feeling capable, curious, connected, and excited to learn, with the social, emotional, physical, and early academic foundations they need for their next stage of development.
Preschool Program
Our Preschool Program is designed for children who are becoming more independent, imaginative, social, and eager to understand the world around them. During the preschool years, children make tremendous strides in language, problem-solving, emotional development, physical coordination, and their ability to participate in a classroom community.
Our program combines play-based learning with intentional, age-appropriate teaching, giving children opportunities to learn through exploration, creativity, conversation, movement, and meaningful hands-on experiences. Children follow a consistent daily schedule that includes learning activities, classroom centers, meals and snacks, outdoor play, stories, music and movement, creative activities, and rest.
Language & Early Literacy
Preschoolers are developing increasingly complex language skills and learning how to communicate their thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Teachers encourage children to participate in conversations, ask and answer questions, tell stories, follow multi-step directions, and use increasingly descriptive vocabulary.
Through daily read-alouds, songs, rhyming activities, storytelling, and exposure to print, children begin developing important pre-reading skills. They explore letter recognition and sounds, recognize their own names and familiar words, practice sequencing stories, and begin understanding how books and written language work.
Early Math, Science & Problem-Solving
Early academic concepts are incorporated naturally into play and everyday classroom experiences. Children explore counting, number recognition, shapes, colors, patterns, sorting, measuring, comparing, sequencing, and spatial relationships.
Science and sensory experiences encourage children to observe, experiment, ask questions, make predictions, and discover cause and effect. Rather than simply giving children answers, our teachers encourage them to think, wonder, investigate, and problem-solve.
Creativity & Learning Through Play
Play remains an essential part of learning during the preschool years. Classroom centers provide opportunities for dramatic play, blocks and building, art, sensory exploration, puzzles, manipulatives, books, music, and imaginative experiences.
Through open-ended play, children develop creativity while strengthening language, early academic concepts, problem-solving abilities, and social skills. Teachers build upon children’s natural interests and curiosity to make learning engaging and meaningful.
Physical Development & Outdoor Play
Active movement is an important part of every preschooler’s day. Children strengthen their balance, coordination, body awareness, and gross motor abilities through running, jumping, climbing, throwing, catching, dancing, and other movement activities.
We place a strong emphasis on daily outdoor play, giving children opportunities to be active, explore nature, use their imaginations, and develop confidence in their physical abilities.
Fine motor development is also incorporated throughout the classroom through drawing, painting, puzzles, building, play dough, cutting with scissors, stringing, manipulating small objects, and beginning writing activities. These experiences strengthen the hands and coordination needed for increasingly independent tasks and future writing.
Social & Emotional Development
Preschool is an important time for developing friendships and learning how to successfully participate in a group. Children practice sharing, taking turns, cooperating, listening to others, expressing their needs appropriately, and solving conflicts with increasing independence.
Teachers help children recognize and name emotions, understand the feelings and perspectives of others, develop empathy, and learn strategies for handling frustration or disappointment. Children are encouraged to build confidence, resilience, self-control, and a positive sense of themselves.
Independence & Responsibility
Preschoolers are ready to take greater ownership of their daily routines. Children are encouraged to manage personal belongings, clean up after activities, wash their hands, make choices, complete age-appropriate classroom responsibilities, and care for themselves with increasing independence.
Teachers provide guidance when needed while also giving children the time and encouragement to try things for themselves. These everyday opportunities help develop confidence, responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment.
Building a Foundation for Future Learning
Our Preschool Program focuses on much more than preparing children academically. We believe school readiness includes the ability to communicate, make friends, follow routines, listen and participate in a group, solve problems, manage emotions, work independently, and approach new experiences with curiosity and confidence.
By supporting the whole child—socially, emotionally, physically, creatively, and academically—we help children develop a strong foundation and, most importantly, a genuine love of learning.
Pre-Kindergarten Program
Our Pre-Kindergarten Program is designed to prepare children for a confident and successful transition into kindergarten while continuing to honor the importance of play, creativity, exploration, and childhood. At this age, children are ready for greater independence, more complex thinking, deeper friendships, and new academic challenges.
Our teachers provide a balance of intentional instruction and hands-on, play-based learning, helping children develop the academic, social, emotional, and physical skills they will need for kindergarten and beyond. Children follow a consistent daily schedule that includes teacher-led learning, classroom centers, small and large group activities, meals and snacks, outdoor play, stories, music and movement, creative experiences, and rest or quiet time.
Early Literacy & Language
Pre-kindergarten children are developing the foundational skills that will eventually support reading and writing. Through stories, conversations, songs, rhyming activities, games, and hands-on experiences, children work on letter recognition, letter sounds, rhyming, beginning sound awareness, name writing, vocabulary, storytelling, and understanding that letters and words carry meaning.
Teachers encourage children to express their ideas in complete thoughts, participate in group discussions, retell familiar stories, ask and answer questions, and listen to others. Children are also given frequent opportunities to explore drawing and early writing as they begin communicating their ideas on paper.
Math & Early Thinking Skills
Math concepts are incorporated into everyday classroom experiences in meaningful and engaging ways. Children practice counting, number recognition, one-to-one correspondence, sorting, patterns, sequencing, comparing quantities, shapes, measurement, and early mathematical reasoning.
Games, manipulatives, building materials, puzzles, and real-life classroom experiences allow children to develop these skills through exploration rather than memorization alone.
Science, Discovery & Problem-Solving
Pre-kindergarten children are naturally curious, and we encourage them to ask questions, make predictions, investigate, experiment, observe changes, and talk about what they discover.
Through science, nature, sensory experiences, building challenges, and classroom projects, children begin developing important critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. Teachers encourage children to try different solutions, learn from mistakes, and understand that there can be more than one way to solve a problem.
Social & Emotional Readiness
Being ready for kindergarten means much more than knowing letters and numbers. A major focus of our Pre-Kindergarten Program is helping children develop the social and emotional skills needed to confidently participate in a classroom community.
Children practice taking turns, cooperating, sharing ideas and materials, listening while others are speaking, participating in group activities, and forming positive friendships. Teachers help children learn to identify and communicate emotions, consider the feelings and perspectives of others, resolve conflicts with words, manage frustration, and ask for help when needed.
Children are encouraged to develop confidence, empathy, patience, resilience, and an increasingly positive sense of themselves as capable learners.
Independence & Classroom Responsibility
As kindergarten approaches, children are encouraged to take greater responsibility for themselves and their classroom. They practice managing their belongings, following multi-step directions, transitioning between activities, completing tasks, cleaning up materials, caring for personal needs, and participating in classroom jobs and routines.
Teachers encourage children to try independently before asking for assistance while always providing support when it is needed. These everyday responsibilities help children develop confidence, persistence, and a sense of ownership within their classroom.
Physical & Fine Motor Development
Daily movement and outdoor play remain an important part of our program. Children continue strengthening balance, coordination, endurance, and gross motor skills through running, jumping, climbing, throwing, catching, dancing, games, and other active experiences.
Fine motor activities help strengthen the hands and coordination needed for kindergarten tasks. Children have opportunities to draw, paint, cut with scissors, use writing tools, manipulate small objects, complete puzzles, build, and create, supporting increasingly controlled pencil and tool use.
Creativity, Music & Play
Even as children prepare for kindergarten, play remains an essential part of how they learn. Dramatic play, art, music, movement, building, sensory experiences, and open-ended classroom centers give children opportunities to use their imaginations and explore their own interests.
These experiences strengthen creativity while naturally supporting language, mathematics, cooperation, problem-solving, and critical thinking.
Ready for Kindergarten—and Excited to Learn
Our goal is not simply for children to enter kindergarten knowing certain letters, numbers, or academic concepts. We want them to leave our Pre-Kindergarten Program as curious, confident, kind, and increasingly independent learners who are comfortable asking questions, trying new things, making mistakes, solving problems, building friendships, and participating in a classroom community.
By supporting the whole child—academically, socially, emotionally, physically, and creatively—we help each child build a strong foundation for kindergarten while fostering a genuine excitement and love for learning.