Programs·Infants6 weeks – 12 months
Infant care in Winter ParkI can discover.
Babies learn through relationships, movement, their senses, and thousands of small discoveries. Responsive care is not the thing that happens before the curriculum here — at this age it is the curriculum, because a baby who feels safe explores more.
What a day holds
Infant days run on your baby’s clock, not ours. What is fixed is the adult: the same faces, every day.
One primary caregiver
Your baby has a person. Feeding, changing, settling and the daily note come from the same teacher wherever possible, because continuity is what makes a baby brave.
Their own rhythm
Sleep and feeds follow the schedule you give us, updated as it changes. We do not move babies onto a room schedule.
Floor time, not container time
Time out of swings and seats, on a clean floor with real objects, is how rolling, sitting, crawling and reaching get built.
Outside every day
Even in a stroller under the oaks. Light, air and the noise of the street are language input too.
Under the play
What we are actually building
Nothing on a worksheet. Three things, and they are the foundation everything after age three stands on.
Attachment
A baby who trusts an adult will leave that adult’s lap to investigate something new — and come back. That loop is the first version of the thinking cycle.
Language density
We narrate. Constantly. What we are doing, what you are doing, what just happened. The number of words a baby hears in a day predicts more than almost anything else we could do.
Cause and effect
Drop it and it falls. Push it and it moves. Cry and someone comes. Every one of those is a hypothesis being tested for the first time.
Why we talk so much to babies
A quiet room is a missed year.
Language is the one thing at this age that compounds. So our infant teachers narrate — the nappy change, the walk to the window, the name of the thing your baby is staring at. Not baby talk. Real sentences, all day.
One morning in the infant room
A teacher narrates the nappy change, the walk to the window, the name of the thing your baby is staring at. By lunchtime that is thousands of words, nearly all of them about whatever she was looking at.
real sentences, all day — not baby talk.
What narration sounds like
“You are watching the fan. It is going around and around. It makes a soft noise, can you hear it? I am going to lift you now — one, two, up.”
And what we do with it at home
Nothing to buy, nothing to practice. Say what you are doing while you do it. Bath, kitchen, car seat. That is the whole intervention, and it is the strongest one there is at this age.
A moment from this room
A seven-month-old spent four minutes with a metal whisk and a wooden bowl. Bang, listen. Bang softer, listen. Turn it over, try the handle. Her teacher sat close and said almost nothing, which was the hardest and most important part of the job that morning.
four minutes is a very long time when you are seven months old.
The practical part.
Small groups, capped by room, with the ratio posted on the door. Bottles, breast milk, formula and solids all handled to your written plan. Daily notes go home in the app — sleep, feeds, nappies, and one thing that happened.
Programs & ages
Every age, one method. Pick a room.
Come watch them think.
Twenty minutes in this room on an ordinary weekday morning will tell you more than this page can.