Children’s Learning Adventure in West Las Vegas, Nevada understands that children are born with a vast capacity to learn when placed in a loving, nurturing, and stimulating environment. Our Infant Care is designed to stimulate infants cognitively through individual daily routines.
INFANT LEARNING STANDARDS
Physical Development and Health
Coordination of body and muscle control are developed during ‘Tummy Time’. Teachers engage infants in activities that enhance the development of gross and fine motor areas: including increasing the ability for awareness during teacher-child interactions, and attention seeking conversations.
Social Emotional
Infants form secure attachments with others through activities that focus on bonding. We implement a consistent caregiver model called primary care groups.
Language and Literacy
Language development is among one of the most important tasks of the first five years of a child’s life. Teachers implement our ‘Everyday Play’ activities including sign language to improve your infants’ communication skills. Infants interact with books every day, developing early book knowledge and print awareness.
Content areas promoting development in all disciplines:
Everyday Play
Infants need to have meaningful play in their daily activities. These activities create an environment that enables your infant’s brain to connect learning skills. These ‘Everyday Play’ activities will provide infants with opportunities to control and guide their learning.
Read to Me
Children’s literature is instrumental in early literacy from learning to turn the page to sharing a favorite story at the same time each day. Read to Me activities are more than just reading through a book. These activities provide opportunities for teachers to truly share the reading experience with infants.
Tummy Time
Infants develop their muscles by spending quality time on the floor, learning to stretch, and lifting their heads. Initially, this time can be uncomfortable for infants, but by directed activities with the teacher, infants will learn to love holding their heads high and seeing their new environments.
Mealtime Chatter
Mealtime is a wonderful time to interact and promote attention, bonding, and communication with infants during their feedings. Mealtime should be a calm, relaxed experience that initiates the infant bonding with their teacher, while engaging in a very vital component of development.
Rest and Relaxation
As infants experience many activities throughout the day, they need to have an opportunity to learn to relax in their environments with the guidance and direction of their teachers. As infants discover how to calm themselves, they learn that they can control their environments.
Talking Through Transitions
Infants experience several transitions throughout their day, beginning with the good-bye to their parents, first thing in the morning. Transitions need to be recognized as learning experiences and opportunities to provide attention, bonding, and on-going communication for an infant. These transition activities provide the teacher with an understanding for moving smoothly through the day from one transition to the next.
Routines and Repetition
Research has proven that repetition is imperative for learning to occur. Routines are essential in creating a sense of security and predictability for infants in their classroom environments. Establishing routines and repetition in the infant’s day-to-day activities creates a positive, warm, and nurturing environment.
Children's Learning Adventure is the best infant care provider in West Las Vegas, Nevada.
Schedule a visit to tour our West Las Vegas, Nevada campus. Meet with our friendly staff, knowledgeable teachers and educators, and discuss if our infant care is right for your child. Or, call us at 702-263-1292 to discuss your questions and educational goals for your child.
