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Statement of Services

Garden of Infants is a year-round program that offers all day care for children ages from 1month old to 6 years old. Our daily activities and program consist of a flexible schedule that has been created to provide diversity and challenge for children in all age groups. We offer a structured program for children of all ages that includes a year-round curriculum. Our activities include school readiness skills, arts and crafts, games, music, outdoor play and story time. We offer a Full-Time contract, which is for children present at the center over 6 hours per day, and we offer a Part Time contract, which is for children present at the center for less than 6 hours per day.

Infant Curriculum

We will keep your child on his/her daily schedule as much as possible. During the day, we will do activities with your child to help them develop their social, emotional, cognitive, language and physical skills. These activities may include, playing with toys, art, pretending, enjoying stories and books, discovering sand and water, music, and exploring outdoors.

Daily Schedule

Although your child’s schedule varies somewhat day to day, a typical flow of a day’s activities is below.

Activity Time: Activities specific to the weekly theme are presented along with basic activities such as puzzles, table manipulatives, dramatic play, blocks, etc.

Group Time: Group times are child-centered participative sessions. The planned group activities include reading, music, movement, finger plays, discussion, dramatization, games, and experience stories.

Outdoor time: The playground is an extension of the classroom. Children can participate in an activity of their own choosing. Inclement weather, special events, or celebrations will occasionally affect the scheduling of outdoor time.

Snacks and Meal Time: Staff sits with children while they are eating, encouraging and participating in quiet conversation.

Rest Time: Children are given the opportunity to nap or rest each day.

Specific activities vary based on age, all are posted weekly in each room.


Summer Camp

A summer camp program is offered during the summer months for children of all ages. The camp is built around weekly themes. Activities include various art projects, music, water fun, sports, stories, cooking, theatre and field trips. A separate summer program fee is generally charged to help cover transportation costs, and a summer camp T-shirt.




Preschool Curriculum
The preschool curriculum will cover the following areas:

Movement and Coordination
  • Physical attention and relaxation
  • Gross motor skills
  • Eye-hand, and eye-foot coordination
  • Group games
  • Creative movement
Autonomy and Social Skills
Sense of self and personal responsibility
Working in group setting

Work Habits
  • Memory Skills/
  • Following directions
  • Task persistence and completion
Language
  • Oral language
  • Nursery rhymes, poems, finger plays/songs
  • Emerging literacy skills
  • We speak English
  • Hablamos español
  • Nou pale kreyol
Mathematics
  • Patters and classifications
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Numbers and numbers sense
  • Basic Addition and subtraction
  • Money
Orientation in time and space
  • Vocabulary
  • Measure of time
  • Passage of time (past, present, future)
  • Actual and represented space
  • Simple maps
  • Basic geographical concepts
Science
  • Human, animal, and plant characteristics
  • Physical elements (water, air, and light)
  • Tools
Music
  • Attend to different sounds
  • Imitate and produce sounds
  • Listen and sing
  • Listen and move
Visual arts
  • Attend to visual detail
  • Creating art
  • Looking at and talking about art