Our Curriculum
Infants & Toddlers:
Normandale Family Childcare, nurtures Infants and Toddlers from 3 months to 36 months old. We understand that the experiences that an infant has during the early months of life are critical to healthy brain development.
Our Childcare is a nursery area that’s designed to create a “second home” like atmosphere for infants and toddlers. Special attention and meaningful relationships with parents is one of our top priorities here at Normandale Childcare so teachers will always vocalize any concerns about a child.
Each and every baby is very important to us and we know that every baby is different, which is why we generate a schedule and feeding plan that meets your baby’s specific needs. Our infant and toddler program provides a developmentally appropriate learning environment that allows babies to be confident, successful, lifelong learners.
Our infants are engaged with activities that stimulate their brain and encourage first words. Your little one will have an exciting day filled with learning, playing, and interactive activities among other children to help him/her grow in every way possible.
Here are some of our program focus areas:
- Imitating teacher’s speech, rhythms and inflections
- Interacting with picture books and listening to stories and songs
- Exploring self-expression through arts and crafts
- Lifting of their head, rolling from side to side and crawling
- Practicing standing and walking with direct support from attentive teachers
- Hand and body movements through song and dance
- Exploring the environment through sight, sound and touch
- Interacting with objects of different shapes and colors
Preschool:
Our Preschool program prepares children academically and sociably for Pre-Kindergarten. Normandale Family Childcare accommodates Preschool children from Three to Five years old. At this age, children are growing with expanding interests as they continue to explore their environment and experiment with their use of language.
We emphasize that all preschool children learn all the necessary skills to succeed in Pre-Kindergarten and to continue to thrive academically. Our preschool curriculum consists of activities that involve letter recognition, colors, shapes, and numbers.
Arts and crafts time is conducted by carefully and patiently dictating instructions. Children are involved in cutting, pasting, drawing, coloring, painting and more. Our qualified teachers ensure that the children develop positive social skills and learn to communicate among peers effectively, molding them into the confident, successful, lifelong learners they can be.
Children are introduced to a fun and safe classroom environment designed to build up their self-esteem and responsibilities while learning. All children are taught social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills appropriate for their age group.
Here are some of our curriculum highlights:
- Speech Performance: Cultivating and challenging children’s vocabulary and literacy improvement by forming short sentences, repeating, learning new words and numbers.
- Math Concepts: Building numerical skills to help children solve age appropriate problems.
- Discovery Science: Encouraging curiosity and analytical approach to science.
- Arts & Crafts: Promoting acknowledgment of the arts through self-expression. Projecting their imagination and creative thinking thru music and dramatic play.
- Nature’s Beauty: Enhancing children’s impression of responsibility and sympathy.
- Health comes first: Developing the knowledge and skills to practice healthy lifelong habits. Instructing of self-hygienic skills such as teeth brushing and hand washing.
- Social, emotional, physical and intellectual skills: Practicing conversation skills thru group story-telling. Playing alongside other children as a group to promote companionship and team play. Sharing and cooperating with each other and Indoor and outdoor play such as ball bouncing, jump rope, dancing and much more.