Infants
An infant room lives or dies on consistency. The same few faces, the same hands at the same moments, so a baby learns that being hungry, tired or upset is always followed by someone coming. Everything else is built on that.
Naps run on your baby’s clock, not ours
The schedule below shows three nap windows because that is what an infant room needs to hold. Inside them, a baby who is tired sleeps and a baby who is awake gets a teacher. We follow the sleep pattern you send us in and tell you what actually happened.
What this room is built to support
- Secure attachment through consistent, familiar caregivers
- Sensory development tied to monthly milestones
- Emotional regulation through Conscious Discipline routines
- Early communication with music, gesture, expression and talk
- Daily notes home, plus a weekly note from the curriculum
- Free movement and daily tummy time, indoors and out
A day in Infants
The doors open at 7:00 AM and close at 5:30 PM. The plan below is the teaching day inside those hours. Arrival, breakfast and free play cover the early part of the morning, and the last block runs until pick-up.
Morning
- 7:30am – 8:00amArrival, breakfast and free play
- 8:00am – 8:30amLanguage experience
- 8:30am – 9:00amMorning meal and handwashing
- 9:00am – 9:15amDiapering and handwashing
- 9:15am – 10:15amMorning naps and developmental activities
- 9:25am – 9:50amOutside time
- 9:50am – 10:15amArt experience
- 10:15am – 10:55amDevelopmental activities
- 11:00am – 11:20amLunch and handwashing
- 11:20am – 11:35amDiapering and handwashing
Middle of the day
- 11:35am – 12:05pmPhysical experience
- 12:05pm – 2:00pmMid-day naps and developmental activities
- 1:10pm – 1:20pmDiapering and handwashing
- 1:20pm – 2:00pmDevelopmental activities
Afternoon
- 2:00pm – 2:10pmDiapering and handwashing
- 2:10pm – 2:35pmOutside time and afternoon naps
- 2:35pm – 2:50pmSocial and emotional experience
- 2:50pm – 3:10pmAfternoon meal and handwashing
- 3:10pm – 3:30pmAfter-nap diapering and handwashing
- 3:30pm – 3:45pmMusic and fingerplay songs
- 3:45pm – 4:00pmDiapering and handwashing
- 4:00pm – 5:30pmPack up, pick-up and free play
The other rooms
Toddlers
Room to move, words for big feelings, and a routine predictable enough to lean on.
3 to 4 yrsPreschool
The year a child learns how to be part of a classroom, and how to learn.
4 to 5 yrsPre-K
A full year aimed squarely at kindergarten, without turning five-year-olds into students too early.
Come and stand in the infants room
The schedule above is what we do. A visit is how you check that it is true, and how you meet the people who would actually be with your child. Call (631) 650-0564 or ask for a time.