These classrooms provide a nurturing, caring environment for our youngest students to grow.  Our infants learn through age-appropriate play and exploration of the world around them.  

Teachers provide authentic materials and active, hands-on learning experiences, creating secure connections and motivating exploration.  These classrooms will follow your baby's home schedule as best as we can in a classroom setting, providing a structured and predictable routine.

Blooming Blossom’s 6wk-6 months

AR Ratio: 1:5

CCA Ratio: 1:4

Social-Emotional:

• Builds foundational relationships by forming strong attachments with caregivers.
• Expresses a range of basic emotions through sounds and facial expressions.
• Begins to recognize familiar people and respond to comfort and nurturing cognitive development.
• Explores objects with senses, showing early curiosity about the environment. Begins to understand object permanence.

Physical Health: Gains early motor skills like holding up the head, grasping objects, and pushing up during tummy time. Focuses on health through feeding routines and regular care .

Language Development: Recognizes familiar voices, reacts to changes in tone, and begins cooing and babbling. Communicates needs through crying and simple vocalizations.

Creativity: Displays responsiveness to sounds and music, often calming to familiar melodies or rhythmic movements.

Lil’ Lollipops 6-12 Months

AR Ratio: 1:5

CCA Ratio: 1:4

• Social-Emotional: Engages in simple back-and-forth interactions like peek-a-boo. Demonstrates stranger anxiety and shows preference for familiar caregivers. Expresses joy through laughter and increased emotional range .
• Cognitive: Expands understanding of cause by shaking toys or dropping objects. Shows improved memory by anticipating routines or searching for hidden items .
• Physical and Health: Progresses in gross motor development including sitting, crawling, and pulling to stand. Begins self-feeding with support and explores objects with hands and mouth .
• Language Development: Develops a wider range of sounds and may form simple words like “mama” or “dada.” Responds to names and simple instructions like “hi” or “wave”.
• Creativity: Reacts to interactive activities. Enjoys banging objects around  and participates in simple imitative play.

At 12 months, children begin to integrate into a classroom community schedule. Children will begin to do daily activities as a group including meal times and nap time. Daily outdoor play on the playground is introduced as well as attending J.A.M. Students can begin to have school lunch. 

Caterpillars and Explorers 12-18 months

AR Ratio: 1:5

CCA Ratio: 1:5

• Social-Emotional: Shows increasing independence while frequently checking in with caregivers. Enjoys parallel play alongside peers and begins to express preferences in toys or activities .
• Cognitive: Improves problem-solving skills by stacking blocks or completing simple puzzles. Learns with curiosity through exploration and experimentation.
• Physical and Health: Learns to walk independently, explore new environments, and testing all boundaries!  Uses fine motor skills with small objects like crayons and utensils.
• Language Development: Expands vocabulary to include multiple words, gestures, and imitative speech. Begins to combine words to form early phrases. 
• Creativity: Engages in early pretend play, such as mimicking adult activities. Enjoys drawing with crayons and experimenting with textures and sensory play! 

The children in these classrooms learn manners, friendship skills, how to play with others, and basic communication and language skills.  Our toddlers learn through active play, manipulation, and exploration of the world around them. 

This classroom follows a predictable schedule.

The children learn through ideas, games, songs, and activities within centers, whole groups, small groups, and one-on-one instruction.  The children follow a schedule that provides routine and structure throughout the day.  

CCA supports and can assist with potty training during the toddler years. CCA will provide routine potty practices while taking into consideration the child's readiness and development.

Butterflies  18-24 months

AR Ratio: 1:8

CCA Ratio: 1:6

Busy Bee's  24-30 months

AR Ratio: 1:8

CCA Ratio: 1:6

Spider Monkeys  2.5-3 years

AR Ratio 1:12

CCA Ratio 1:7.5