Infant
Program
What They Will Learn
Our curriculum is thoughtfully designed to cater to the specific needs of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. We understand that each age group requires a different approach to learning, and we embrace this diversity to foster optimal growth and development.
Made for Infants Designed for You!
How We Support You
- Ready-made and flexible infant curriculum
- Resources to manage daily infant transitions such as sleeping, crying, and feeding
- Infant activities such as floor play, mirror play, water play, and discovery baskets
- Webinars with Q&A, with focus on topics such as Infant Language Development and Caring for Your Infant
- 1×1 consultations with experts to support your infant’s journey into toddlerhood
How We Support Your Infant
- Guided Baby Massages
- Music and Movement activities – exploring different instruments, music, and dance with scarves and fingerplays
- Sensory-rich activities – water play, bubble play, and exploration of paint
- Social outdoor exploration for baby + adult
How We Support Your Infant
Targeting priorities of infancy such as secure attachment emotional well-being, sensory, and motor development, our curriculum and resources provide the support you need to ensure your infant will thrive. Examples include:
- Guided Baby Massages
- Music and Movement activities – exploring different instruments, music, and dance with scarves and fingerplays
- Sensory-rich activities – water play, bubble play, and exploration of paint
- Social outdoor exploration for baby + adult
How They Will Learn
Our program provides you with holistic resources to implement at home with confidence and ease. Each month you will receive:
- Suggested activities that target all domains of development (social-emotional, language, motor, and cognition).
- Documents that encourage music and movement exploration.
- Daily tips on how to make your day special with your infant.
- Resources on how to support and encourage your child’s play.
- And so much more!
Why No Worksheets and Crafts?
Our goal at We Skoolhouse is to foster authentic and meaningful learning experiences that promote creativity, critical thinking, and self-expression. Therefore, we prioritize hands-on, child-led activities that encourage exploration and problem-solving, allowing children to actively construct their knowledge and develop a deep understanding of the world around them. By valuing the process over the final product, we celebrate each child’s unique abilities and interests, promoting a lifelong love for learning.
Our Approach
The first five years of life are truly the most critical and formative. Your child’s everyday experiences not only affect how they approach the world right now, but will also drastically influence and shape their emotional, social, and cognitive abilities as an adult – as well as every age and stage in between! Understanding the delicacy and preciousness of this timeframe, We Skoolhouse combines progressive, science-backed methodologies to offer your child the most meaningful experiences that will spark and sustain a lifelong love for learning.
Our thoughtful programs are uniquely tailored for every age group to ensure developmentally appropriate practice. Not only are we guided by developmental milestones, but we also utilize these Domains of Development to promote holistic care and growth of your child.
Cognition
- Creativity, Imagination, & Innovation
- Cause-and-effect & Trial-and-error
- Experimentation & Problem-solving
- Inferences and Prediction-making
- Discovery & Reasoning
- Focus, Attention, and Recollection
- Symbolic Awareness
Social and Emotional
- Independence & Initiative
- Self-awareness & Self-esteem
- Verbal and Nonverbal Self Expression
- Autonomy and Initiative
- Mindful Decision Making
- Empathy, Understanding, & Compassion
- Collaboration & Effective Communication
Motor
- Gross Motor Strength (Head, Trunk, & Limbs)
- Fine Motor Strength (Wrists, Hands, & Fingers)
- Balance, Coordination, Stabilization
- Hand-eye Coordination & Visual Perception
- Self-care Skills (Feeding, Dressing, & Brushing)
- Crawling, Walking, Running, Skipping
- Grasping, Maneuvering, and Controlling Objects
Language and Literacy
- Receptive Skills (Understanding Language)
- Expressive Skills (Using Language)
- Non-verbal Communication
- Fluency, Articulation, Volume, Pitch, & Tone
- Exploration & Recognition of Print Concepts
- Interest & Engagement with Books & Music
- Reciprocity & Dialogue with Others
What they'll Learn by age
Babies are born with uniquely wonderfull personalities paired with innate curiosity and wonder. The first year of life is marked by exceptional growth, In which tittles ones depend on consistent nurture and guidance from caregivers. Babies also heavily rely on their senses to learn about the world around them, while also formulating their sense of self and belonging to their family.
Cognition
Social Emotional
Language
Motor
Sensory rich experiences are the building blocks for your baby’s cognition. By touching, tasting, seeing, hearing and eating, your baby is processing the world at hand, making connections around them.
Besides food, nothing is more important than the connection and closeness to their caregiver. During the first year, your baby will spend most of their time close to your body, fulfilling their sense of safety and security.
Babies hear and process language at an exceptional rate. Within their first year, babies will begin using verbal (saying “mama,”) and non verbal language shake head “no”) to communicate with their caregivers.
Physical growth happens fast in the first year. Babies go from being immobile, to rolling, crawling and even walking. With regards to fine motor skills, little ones can grib, grab, throw objects and feed themselves.
Our Approach
Our thoughtful curriculum welcomes your baby to safely explore various materials that range in size, shape, texture, and color, to stimulate the senses.
Opportunities for bonding with your baby are embedded in all of our daily activities. We’re here to make those read-alouds, music, and play sessions much sweeter.
Caregivers are guided on how to maximize your baby’s exposure to diverse and robust language, all used in context that is relative, meaningful, and engaging.
From tips and tricks during tummy time, to techniques that prompt your baby’s movement, we have all the tools you need to get your little one going!
Cognition
Sensory rich experiences are the building blocks for your baby’s cognition. By touching, tasting, seeing, hearing and eating, your baby is processing the world at hand, making connections around them.
Our Approach
Social Emotional
Besides food, nothing is more important than the connection and closeness to their caregiver. During the first year, your baby will spend most of their time close to your body, fulfilling their sense of safety and security.
Our Approach
Language
Babies hear and process language at an exceptional rate. Within their first year, babies will begin using verbal (saying “mama,”) and non verbal language shake head “no”) to communicate with their caregivers.
Our Approach
Motor
Physical growth happens fast in the first year. Babies go from being immobile, to rolling, crawling and even walking. With regards to fine motor skills, little ones can grib, grab, throw objects and feed themselves.
Our Approach
Toddlers are incredibly mobile and interested in getting their hands on everything and anything! Their evolving physical development will contribute to an abundance of experimentations; whether opening and closing cabinets and doors, to climbing furniture and stairs, to exploring how toys and various materials work (or may not work) together – Little scientists, indeed!
Cognition
Social Emotional
Language
Motor
Like infants, toddlers are still very dependent on their sense to make connections and learn about the world. We also begin to see more pretend play as they use tools in more imaginative ways (pretend a banana is a phone).
While it’s a remarkable time of growth, toddlers are often caught in a “catch 22” – They seek more independence, but still need your guidance and support. They have needs to verbally express, but they may lack the language skills to do so.
Your toddler is able to process your language more rapidly, and may respond to your questions and comments.They will begin communicating to you, while also sharing their observations (pointing to and labeling a car).
Prepared to be on your toes, as your little one is on the move with no intention of slowing down! They have the ability to get to-and-from while gaining fine motor strength that allows them to manipulate materials or opening doors, containers, and cabinets.
Our Approach
Prepared to be on your toes, as your little one is on the move with no intention of slowing down! They have the ability to get to-and-from while gaining fine motor strength that allows them to manipulate materials or opening doors, containers, and cabinets.
By understanding what’s developmentally appropriate at this age, coupled with the tools to best navigate toddlerhood, we’re here to switch the perspective from “terrible twos” to “terrific twos!”
Conversing with a toddler admittedly poses some challenges. What are they saying or trying to say? How can we expand upon and support emergent speech? We have you covered!
Movement is an essential aspect of healthy growth and development, and we are here to support your child’s motor skills by balancing healthy challenges through safe investigations.
Cognition
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Social Emotional
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Motor
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When we look back at the last few years of your child’s life, it’s remarkable to see how much growth has transpired. Your child is more likely to be able to engage in reciprocal conversations, while also showing an ability to attend to play scenarios for a longer period of time. Socially, your child may now be more curious & interested in engaging and playing with other children.
Cognition
Social Emotional
Language
Motor
In the preschool years, children combine toys and materials with their knowledge of the world to begin constructing stories, while also reenacting everyday experiences. Creative and imaginative play is at an all time high.
Evolving language, motor, and cognition skills contribute to your preschooler’s development. They may now demonstrate and practice more self-help skills, while also being more comfortable and/or curious when it comes to engaging with their peers.
Your preschooler’s speech is probably far more understandable. Not only is speech more clear, but you’ll notice greater detail in their questions. Receptive language is nourished throug dialogue and exposure to books.
Movement is an essential aspect of learning and development. Not only is your preschooler becoming stronger and more coordinated, but they’re also experimenting with their evolving abilities.
Our Approach
Our caregivers are provided with specific questions that prompt higher-level thinking, as well as engaging provocations to spark limitless experimentation, discovery, and wonder.
How much should we do for children versus how much should they do for themselves? How can we encourage greater independence & build self help skills? We have you covered.
Language, like any other skill, can be fostered and fueled. Our daily activities are thoughtfully designed to provide you with specific phrases & questions to prompt more robust language.
Learning is not just limited to a desk. Some of the most meaningful learning happens outside, and we’re here to explain the how and why – so let’s get out there and see what the natural world has to offer!
Cognition
In the preschool years, children combine toys and materials with their knowledge of the world to begin constructing stories, while also reenacting everyday experiences. Creative and imaginative play is at an all time high.
Our Approach
Our caregivers are provided with specific questions that prompt higher-level thinking, as well as engaging provocations to spark limitless experimentation, discovery, and wonder.
Social Emotional
Evolving language, motor, and cognition skills contribute to your preschooler’s development. They may now demonstrate and practice more self-help skills, while also being more comfortable and/or curious when it comes to engaging with their peers.
Our Approach
How much should we do for children versus how much should they do for themselves? How can we encourage greater independence & build self help skills? We have you covered.
Language
Your preschooler’s speech is probably far more understandable. Not only is speech more clear, but you’ll notice greater detail in their questions. Receptive language is nourished throug dialogue and exposure to books.
Our Approach
Language, like any other skill, can be fostered and fueled. Our daily activities are thoughtfully designed to provide you with specific phrases & questions to prompt more robust language.
Motor
Movement is an essential aspect of learning and development. Not only is your preschooler becoming stronger and more coordinated, but they’re also experimenting with their evolving abilities.
Our Approach
Learning is not just limited to a desk. Some of the most meaningful learning happens outside, and we’re here to explain the how and why – so let’s get out there and see what the natural world has to offer!
Why they'll Love it
In a nutshell, it’s fun! Meaningful learning will happen naturally through a developmentally appropriate curriculum that incorporates self-expression, movement, touch, art, story-telling, singing, dancing, playing, and ample outdoor time – all of which sings to the hearts, brains, and bodies of little ones, everywhere!
