Nurturing & Encouraging

Younger children often suffer from separation anxiety when they are left in someone else's care. At Pitter-Patter Child Care Inc., we try to make the situation less stressful for them and their parents. We offer the type of nurturing infant and toddler care that you would give them, which helps children feel at home in unfamiliar surroundings.

Infant Program

Bring your child to us for high quality care for infants six weeks through 15 months old. Our infant room teachers work according to babies' schedules, and they spend quality time with each infant while also encouraging independence. They are well-trained to care for a baby's physical and emotional needs by creating a warm and welcoming classroom. We provide proper stimulation in an ideal environment that will help infants' minds grow, and this approach helps create happy and healthy children. The infants in this room create bonds with their teachers and the other babies which is a social skill that will help them through their entire life. Our Infant room is filled with the sounds of music, babies, toys, and LOTS of love.

Highlights of our infant program:

• Personalized schedules designed for each infant's individual needs. We work hard to mimic your infants home schedule within our classroom to make a smoother transition for our infants and their families.  We understand that each day for an infant can be and usually will be different in some way, shape or form and our teachers are well trained to be able to recognize the needs of each infant.
• Each infant is provided with adequate tummy time.  We understand the importance of tummy time at a young age and how it aids in the development of growing infants.  It helps develop core muscles that infants will use to begin rolling and crawling around.
• Infants are introduced to baby sign language.  We incorporate this concept into everyday activities such as playtime, meal-time and story time.  We work on the basics such as; please, more, eat, milk etc. Our teachers take great pride when our infants start repeating their baby sign language!
• Daily reports are provided for the families to inform them of their infant's day.  We record when your infant feeds, naps and every diaper change as well.  The teachers will also provide additional information about their day such as the song of the day, book of the day or what your infant might have made for art!

Two-Year-Old Program

Two year olds struggle with issues of dependence versus independence. Pitter-Patter Child Care Inc. provides both the security of structure for these children and the freedom for them to make simple choices. We challenge this age group to become more self-sufficient, learning self-help skills like putting on their own shoes and coats. Potty-training is encouraged positively, and children receive positive encouragement with accomplishment.

We understand learning is built into activities, but the pressure to learn is not. Children learn letter and shape recognition, and they play matching games and puzzles. We recognize that language skills increase through regular communication, so speaking with our students is enlightening for them and us. Children learn best through play, so we feel that if the child is having fun learning, the experiences will carry on with them throughout his or her entire school career!

Goals for our two year old room:

• Learn the ABC song and be able to sing it themselves.
• Play matching games to help encourage color, size and alphabet recognition.
• Begin to tell the difference between big/small and same/different concepts.
• During circle time be able to sit for longer periods of time and begin to work on calendar concepts, such as the days of the week and months of the year.
• Begin to use a fork during meal time instead of a spoon and use a cup without a lid for drinking.
• By the time they exit this classroom and move into the beginning preschool classroom they will be able to understand the concept of using the bathroom and can go with little to no aid from the teacher.