Infant Care - Nicholasville, KY
Our infant program focuses on providing a safe and nurturing environment where you can feel confident in your child’s care. We keep low child to teacher ratios to offer your child individualized attention, a calm and soothing environment, and responsive caregiving through routines and experiences. Routines offer the opportunity to build relationships and promote trust. During routine moments, such as diapering, feeding and soothing, our qualified staff will use the opportunities to develop curiosity, security, and language. When children form a secure attachment, they will begin to explore their environment. Through daily experiences, our staff will engage your child through playing with toys, imitating and pretending, and reading stories. Teachers work independently with children, helping them to master gross motor skills such as rolling over, crawling, and walking. Teachers also work on labeling objects and people to help expand each child’s language.
Meet Our Teachers
The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos
Our approach to children from birth through 3 years is “Responsive Caregiving Through Routines and Experiences” that structure each day and enable children to develop a secure, trusting relationships and gain confidence in themselves as learners. Routines offer the opportunity to build relationships and promote trust. During routine moments, such as diapering, feeding, and soothing, our staff will use these opportunities to develop curiosity, security, language, and create a warm and nurturing environment. Through daily experiences, our staff will engage your child through playing with toys, imitating and pretending, reading stories, creating with arts and crafts, and so much more.
Our monthly themes allow our toddlers to learn through play, observation, and exploration. With a wide array of topics that our toddlers can relate to directly, we carefully introduce and foster language development, cooperative play, sensory awareness, colors, manipulatives and self-expression to your little one.
We focus on nine areas of development and learning, four of which are on child development: social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and language:
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
a. Manages feelings
b. Follows limits and expectations
c. Takes care of own needs appropriately
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
a. Forms relationships with adults
b. Responds to emotional cues
c. Interacts with peers
d. Makes friends
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
a. Balances needs and rights of self and others
b. Solves social problems
PHYSICAL
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
a. Uses fingers and hands
b. Uses writing and drawing tools
8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
a. Comprehends language
b. Follows directions
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
a. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
b. Speaks clearly
c. Uses conventional grammar
d. Tells about another time or place
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
a. Engages in conversation
b. Uses social rules of language
COGNITIVE
11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
a. Attends and engages
b. Persists
c. Solves problems
d. Shows curiosity and motivation
e. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
12. Remembers and connects experiences
a. Recognizes and recalls
b. Makes connections
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
a. Thinks symbolically
b. Engages in sociodramatic play
