Infant (6 Weeks - 12 Months)
Our infant program provides the highest quality care designed with the parent and child in mind.
Your infant needs a safe, secure home away from home where they can learn, play and grow. We offer a nurturing, warm, and loving environment for your infant starting at six weeks old. We are committed to making a smooth transition from your home to our Center. Creating a strong bond with your child is our priority. Our infant program provides a soothing environment and a variety of experiences through individual daily routines which meet your child's rapidly developing needs.
Activity & Exploration
Our infant room is filled with educational and age-appropriate toys and materials. We follow a weekly curriculum including the following areas:
- Music & Movement/Story Time: Includes self-expression, songs, books, instruments and finger plays.
- Art & Sensory: Includes simple art projects, coloring and many different items to help with sensory development.
- Gross Motor Play
- Fine-Motor Play & Self: Help Skills Building—Includes stacking blocks, connecting toys, cooking projects and manipulative toys.
- Play & Learn Time: There is scheduled time at the beginning and end of each day for the kids to explore the room and play with their favorite toys. This is a good time for them to develop language and social skills.
We invite you to visit our Infant Room. Contact us to schedule a tour!
Toddler I ( 12 Months - 24 Months)
Preparing Your Child for Life-Long Learning
Our experienced staff are here to provide nurturing guidance while laying out the foundation for continuous growth and development. Our classrooms are safe and conducive to meet the needs of each child. Our classrooms have multiple teaching staff members and floaters that help facilitate developmentally-appropriate activities and classroom management daily.
Children at this age are learning to:
- Transition from bottle to a sippy-cup
- Communicate through practical sign language
- Build expressive vocabulary
- Develop fine motor skills
- Explore the environment in a positive way
- Engage in sensory activities
- Refine gross motor skills, balance and coordination
- Express independence
- Enter beginning stages of cooperative play
- Gain an understanding of basic phonetic and mathematics concepts, opposites, colors and shapes
We invite you to visit our Toddler I room. Contact us to schedule a tour!
Toddler II (2 - 3 years old)
Our Toddler Program offers opportunities for children to learn through play.
We provide an engaging environment with intentionally planned learning experiences which encompasses every aspect of life in the classroom. While individually nurturing each child, our teachers also provide a high level of interaction with daily whole group instruction to promote social skills development, balanced attention to play time, development of each child’s confidence, self-esteem, and the love of learning. We are focused on learning areas such as dramatic play, creative arts, language, and sensory exploration.
At this age, children are discovering they are separate individuals, Independence and the developing of self-awareness, exploding into language, and strengthening their bodies every day.
This program is designed to gently introduce your child to the experience and the community of the classroom environment.
A warm and cozy classroom welcomes each child. The space is carefully prepared to meet the needs of children in this age group.
Here we encourage children to observe, question, and seek answers. The curriculum focuses on enriching vocabulary, building receptive and expressive language skills, and fostering self-awareness and socialization. Children are free to move around the classroom and select materials and activities that spark their interest. Children are engaged with classroom materials, model grace and courtesy, and are gently encouraged as they establish everyday life skills, such as feeding themselves snack, cleaning up, and using the toilet.
We invite you to visit our Toddlers II room. Contact us to schedule a tour!
Early Learners and Pre-K (3 - 5 years old)
Our Preschool and Pre-K program is designed for children ages three to five years old. Introducing math, science, literacy and social skills while learning one step at a time. Our daily routine includes a deliberate mixture of independent learning opportunities and teacher-led learning activities. Children are encouraged to explore and are challenged to learn. Making friends and developing self-confidence strengthens the individual independence of each child.
It is our goal to prepare each child for their kindergarten experience.
Discovery & Exploration
A good preschool program can make a difference in a child's future school years. We offer individual programs for children to help them learn in an environment that is stress free and fun. Here your child will explore music, science, math, language arts and manipulative play.
Our Preschool/ Pre-K Program ensures that your child’s mind is engaged and helps create a life-long love of learning and exploration. Your child is introduced to new experiences which develop independence, self-esteem and self-confidence. Children begin to form stronger friendship groups and our educators help them learn how to play cooperatively and belong to a community.
Our curriculum includes:
- Language and Literacy
- Mathematics
- Science and Technology
- Social Studies
- Art
We invite you to visit our Early Learners / Pre-K Classrooms. Contact us to schedule a tour!
School Age Children: Walter V. Long Elementary-Before and after school care (5 - 12 Years old)
Children's Learn and Play offers a stimulating environment that promotes good citizenship, communication skills, respect for one another, fair sportsmanship and offers many wholesome activities.
Children will be given the opportunity to participate in games, group activities, art and crafts, and many other fun learning experiences.
Every school age child has homework. As an important activity, our teachers are here to help. While it is not mandatory, help is available for all school age children whose families choose this option.
We pride ourselves on our quality before and after-school program serving only families and children that attend the Walter V. Long Elementary School.
Designed specifically for elementary school age students, we provide them with age-appropriate activities in a safe and secure environment that allows children to be children.
We invite you to visit our classroom. Contact us to schedule a tour!
Summer
Learning shouldn’t stop when school is out for the summer. At Children's Learn and Play, we work to ensure your child has an educational and fun summer through our curriculum and summer program. We use games, arts and crafts and various fun activities to teach your child and to reinforce what they have already learned in school.
Pre-registration is required with limited spots for boys and girls ages preschool to school age. We provide a unique and exciting learning experience through various activities:
- Arts and crafts
- Indoor and outdoor games
- Sports
- Nature
- Educational enhancement projects
- Music
- And much more!
Summer camp at Children's Learn and Play is all about fun, but it’s also much more. It gives kids an opportunity to explore, create, investigate and design as they develop existing skills and learn new ones. We invite your children on a new adventure here at Children's Learn and Play for the summer.
We invite you to visit our classroom. Contact us to schedule a tour!
