Infant/Toddler Learning and Care
The Union City Day Care utilizes the Creative Curriculum to teach our infant and toddler students. The curriculum focuses on all areas of development:
- Social-Emotional Development: To learn about self and others - trusts known, caring adults, regulating own behavior, play with other children, learn to be a member of a group, and use personal care skills.
- Physical Development: To learn about moving - demonstrate basic gross motor skills, demonstrate basic fine motor skills.
- Cognitive Development: To learn about the world - sustain attention, understand how objects can be used, show a beginning understanding of cause and effect, show a beginning understanding that things can be grouped, use problem-solving strategies, and engage in pretend play.
- Language Development: To learn about communicating - develop receptive language, develop expressive language, participate in conversations, understand and use words, enjoy books and being read to, show an awareness of pictures and print, experiment with drawing and writing.
Infants (6 weeks to 1 year) Waddlers (1 to 2 years) Toddlers (2 to 3 years)
The curriculum for our Infant, Waddler, Toddler, and Catch-All learners engages both traditional and innovative methods grounded in the tents of early education. A safe, nurturing, and active participatory learning environment is provided to stimulate cognitive and physical development as well as foster self-esteem and guide the students to become self-directed learners, explorers, investigators and discoverers.
