Green and Blue Rooms

(6 weeks – 17 mos.)

All children must arrive by 9:30 AM and all families must transition from the classroom at 4:30pm (core day) or 5:30pm (core day + PM) for building closure.   

The classrooms in the Infant Centers operate on a very flexible timetable geared to meet the infants’ individual and group needs.  Children eat and nap according to their own schedules.  Diapering occurs throughout the day as needed and at regularly scheduled times.  The time, number, and nature of changes are recorded as is time and amount at feedings and time and length of naps.

Each week, experiences based on observations of the children are planned to provide a daily balance of the following: indoor/outdoor, active/quiet, individual/small group, gross motor/fine motor, child initiated/staff initiated.  The curriculum includes play experiences based on the children’s cues that foster growth in the Personal/Social, Cognitive, Sensorimotor and Language/Communication domains.  Weather permitting, children play outside every day.

 

Over the course of the day, our schedule includes:

Arrival in the common room and a variety of explorations including: sensory, gross and fine motor experiences, books, songs, cause and effect, peer and teacher interactions

Morning meals, diapering, naptime (individualized schedules)

Indoor and outdoor explorations including: sensory, gross and fine motor experiences books, songs, cause and effect, peer and teacher interactions, tummy time

Mid day meals and rest time according to children’s needs

Indoor and outdoor explorations including: sensory, books, songs, cause and effect, gross and fine motor experiences, peer and teacher interactions, tummy time