Our Innovations infant curriculum is intended to identify the major milestones in
infancy and construct developmentally appropriate experiences to guide each infant. We
would like to build a trusting relationship with parents and infants to share the milestones
of their child’s growth and development. The primary task of a teacher in infant care is
to provide a loving, learning environment that allows children to learn naturally at their
own rate. Our teachers are trained in First Aid, Child CPR, Child Abuse, and
Communicable Diseases.
Because a child’s first early experiences are so crucial to development this comprehensive curriculum follows all Ohio’s Infant Guidelines birth through eighteen months. These guidelines include six developmental domains: physical health, emotional development, social development, motor development, language and communication
development, and cognitive development. By involving children in these developmentally appropriate activities, we are able to see and guide each child’s growth and development.
Academic Guidelines
Physical Education-Protect children from illness and injury, and provide them with individually appropriate nutrition.
- Provide a sanitary environment that reduces the risk of infectious disease.
- Provide healthy nutritional needs
- Provide proper diapering needs
Emotional Devleopment-The emerging ability to become secure, express feelings, develop self-awareness and self-regulate.
- Form appropriate relationships with caregivers
- Form attachments to caregivers
- Begin to smile and show emotion to caregivers
- Express joy by waving and kicking legs
- Express sadness by crying
- Begin to understand that they are their own separate person
- Use terms to compare objects such as: lighter, heavier, bigger, and smaller
- React to own name
- Begin to explore my own abilities by movement
- Communicate my needs to my caregiver by crying
- Depend on caregivers to meet his or her needs
Social Development-The understand of self and others
- Smile when approached by parent or caregiver
- Cry out or follow as parent leaves the room
- Show pleasure in dealing with people and things
- Match facial expressions of an adult
- Interact with others by touching and grabbing
- Respond to caregiver or parent with a smile
 Motor Development-Using your body to interact with the environmentGross Motor:
- Begin to hold head up at 2 months
- Roll from front to back or back to front
- Hold self up, first on two hands then on one, while on tummy
- Scoot backward on belly
- Crawl forward on hands and knees
- Reach for toys
- Use Furniture to pull self up
Fine Motor:
- Grasp mom or caregivers finger
- Follow a moving person with eyes
- Move arms when a toy is in view
- Clasp hands together
- Reach and grasp an object
- Release grasp on a toy to watch it fall to the ground
- Begins to use index finger and thumb to pick up food and bring to mouth
Language Development-Communicating successfully with other to build relationships, share meaning and express needs in multiple ways.
- Turn head towards a loud sound
- Watch a face as they talk
- Reach for bottle when asked, “Do you want a bottle?”
- Coo using single vowel sounds (eh, ah, uh)
- Use several different cries for different needs
- Use gestures or expressions to indicate wants and needs
- Look at pictures in a book
- Reach for pages of a book
Cognitive Development-Building thinking skills
- Turn toward sight, sound, or smell of mom
- Explore objects by mouthing, banging, shaking, or hitting them
- Show anxiety or fear towards unfamiliar faces
- Use a wooden spoon, pots and pans, in various combinations to make sounds over and
over again
- Track and object that moves out of sight
- Experiment with how objects fit in space: stack, sort, dump, push, pull, twist, turn
- Look for what is making a sound
- Imitate an adult’s facial expression or sounds
Visit one of our three convenient locations today to inquire about our great Infant programs and find out why Creative Early Learning Center is truly…
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