Infant Curriculum
Cognitive Development
Infants actively seek to make sense of every experience they have. Through responsive interactions and a thoughtful selection of materials, teachers provide opportunities for children to explore and make discoveries. Infants learn about the world through play, exploration, and interactions. We support infants' cognitive development by creating activities that allow infants to explore the relationship between cause and effect, identify the permanence of objects, experiment with tools, develop an understanding of spatial relationships, and learn by imitating the behaviors of other people.
Language Development
Infants are naturally attentive to language and, as they grow, actively practice using it. Language development naturally occurs through active and ongoing interactions with adults in our bilingual environment. We make communication and language fun by engaging infants in daily conversations, books, songs, and stories to help infants expand their language.
Perceptual and Motor Development
As infants develop increasing motor competence, they use perceptual information when choosing which motor actions to take. We tailor a unique developmental pathway for each infant toward the attainment of important motor milestones.
Social-Emotional Development
Infants experience, express, and perceive emotions before they fully understand them. Responsive caregiving helps infants begin to regulate their emotions and develop a sense of predictability, safety, and security in their social environments. Our small group setting allows teachers to be responsive to each infant's unique needs.
Preschool Curriculum
Potty Training
Childen usually start potty training at the age of 2-3.
Health and Safety
Providing a safe and healthy environment is our priority. We provide all meals that include snacks and lunch for children over 1-year-old. Meals are made fresh using organic fruits and vegetables. We start implementing health and safety in our curriculum, such as washing hands, and wearing masks to help children build a hygiene routine, as well as monthly or bi-monthly drills.
Project-Based Learning
With project-based learning, children
tackle problems that connect them to
their lived experience. Children develop
projects through observation and
questions and learn through hands-on
activities.
Sensory and Imaginary Play
Children enjoy sensory and imaginary play as they are essential to their brain development. Children in Happy Care can learn and enjoy themselves in a variety of theme-based sensory and imaginary play.
Reggio Emilia Approach
The Reggio Emilia Approach empower children to take pride in their own learning so that they have positive experiences in their learning pathway and feel passionate to continue to learn and explore. Children are encouraged to discover their interests by exploring the well-prepared classroom freely.
Bilingual Environment
We support children’s language development
through talking, singing, and storytelling in both
Mandarin and English throughout the day, to enhance children's understanding of both languages, in addition to routines involving weather, calendar, letters, conversation, and numbers.
Process Art
Process art is child-directed, choice-driven, and celebrates the experience of discovery. In process art, the final product is always unique, and the focus lies in the creation of the work, not the outcome. Process art is all about creating something new by experimenting with different materials and seeing what happens. We provide different tools and materials for children to create their art based on our weekly themes. By expressing themselves by combining traces, colors, and textures in their artwork, children get to know about art.
Well-rounded Curriculum
Our curriculum follows the guidelines of California Learning Foundations and Frameworks, focusing on the domain of Cognitive Development, Social-Emotional Development, Language and Literacy Development, Physical Development, Visual and Performing Arts, Math, and Science.
Music and Movement
Music and movement activities are a great way to help children learn and develop their motor skills; both fine motor skills and gross motor skills.
Moving to music encourages brain development, vocabulary growth, social skills, spatial awareness, balance, and stress regulation in children.
In addition, creativity and imagination are promoted through exploring a variety of types of music and musical instruments.
Positive Guidance
Children need boundaries, and they start to enjoy setting rules with adults in this period. Letting children know what to do by singing songs and giving reminders are the ways we help them with building good habits and routines.
