INFANTS AND TODDLERS
6 WEEKS TO 23 MONTHS
INFANTS
At Explora Learning Center, our experienced teachers and staff help facilitate your infant’s learning. Our infant program will pair your baby with a primary teacher who will provide personalized attention, care, and education through every milestone. Amid each infant’s individualized care and education, our goal is to help your child grow and transition as part of the greater Explora Learning Center family.
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NEW BEGINNINGS PROGRAM
Our New Beginnings Program ensures that infants will have the best opportunity to discover the world around them. We design our infant classrooms to provide a secure and nurturing environment, in order to provide the best cognitive and social growth for our little ones.
CURRICULUM
At Explora Learning Center, our lead teachers and assistant teachers are constantly working together to create weekly lesson plans and curriculum that is comprehensive, flexible, and developmentally appropriate for your infant. When designing our curriculum, it is important for infants to receive education in the following:
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Understanding object permanence through educational games
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Developing the five senses through hands-on activities
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Problem-solving through working puzzles, and distinguishing between different shapes and colors
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utilizing sign language to communicate wants/needs
LANGUAGE AND COMUNICATION
Imitating and repeating sounds and rhymes through songsDistinguishing between colors and words in booksMaking associations between facial expressions and sounds
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Understanding object permanence through educational games
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Developing the five senses through hands-on activities
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Problem-solving through working puzzles, and distinguishing between different shapes and colors
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utilizing sign language to communicate wants/needs
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL GROWTH
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Bonding with teachers and other infants
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Developing identity and self-awareness through music
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Learning how to take turns and play alongside classmates
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Developing independence by spending time completing activities and playing alongside peers
MOTORS SKILLS
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Infants will practice lifting, holding and turning their heads, rolling over, sitting up and crawling through daily activity Building leg muscles by using devices that promote walking Learning how to feed them selves Exploring the outdoors through daily walks in strollers and playing outside in the playground