Infants
Curriculum
Infants are in the most vulnerable and important period of life. Initially, they are totally dependent on adults to meet their every need. We recognize that if the care and experiences a baby receives are nurturing, consistent, and loving, your child will flourish.
Almost every day you will see exciting changes as your child learns to trust, joyfully explore the environment that has been created, make discoveries, care about others, and begin to see themselves as competent learners. The foundation of our curriculum is to ensure that every infant receives high-quality care and learning experiences so that they become sociable, capable preschoolers who get along with others, demonstrate self-control, and love learning.
Our infant curriculum is developmentally appropriate and separated by age: 3-6 months, 6-9 months, and 9-12 months. It is multisensory and uses activities that actively engage and stimulates your baby through social interaction, talking, playing, moving, singing, reading, and signing. Specifically our curriculum uses activity cards, photographic books, plush puppets, and music CDs.
Activities are integrated across all domains of infant development including physical, emotional, social, and intellectual. Through our infant curriculum, an emotionally supportive environment and nurturing caregivers each child develops a wide variety of skills including: language acquisition, sense of self, sensory awareness, gross motor skills and more!
In addition, the infant curriculum at KKLC incorporates American Sign Language and baby yoga!
To ensure that infants are developing appropriately, our teachers informally assess each child on a daily basis. If they notice a milestone accomplishment, they will write down the objective number and the time that it happened. This information is placed in the infant’s portfolio and shared with parents during the goodbyes at the end of the day and/or during parent/teacher conferences.
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