Programs

NURTURING ENVIRONMENT

Our Infants program goes beyond regular daycare. Our babies are made to feel safe, secure, and happy. This class gives warm, caring teachers an opportunity to bond and develop trust with little ones.

HITTING THE MILSTONES

Children enjoy Warm, nurturing classroom environments, stimulating activities with educational toys and exclusive milestone-based curriculum fostering: Physical Development, Cognitive Development, Language Development, Social and Emotional Development. Our infant rooms provide space for exploration, curiosity and discovery.

HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS

Our staff help little ones develop a foundation of important life skills by developing trust, forming healthy attachments, teaching impulse control and enhancing social interaction

MUSIC AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

Music plays an important role in shaping the brain and is critical to babies’ language development. Through playful baby songs, simple games, and rhythm-band instruments, little ones will be engaged through music, movement, and fun!

HEALTH AND SAFETY

We have all the essentials you need while your child is with us. Safe and secure buildings requiring a code to get in. Daily reports about your child with procare engage. We also have a daily professional cleaning crew that cleans and sanitizes our space.

LANGUAGES

Sign language and Spanish are also taught in our infant classrooms all through pre-school. Research shows that children learn how to gesture early to communicate emotions, desires, and objects prior to spoken language development. With guidance and encouragement signing develops from a natural stage in infants’ development.

ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENCE

Children develop independence from a young age by feeling safe. This comes from trusting their parents/caregivers and trusting themselves. We let them do it on their own in a safe environment. This gives them the confidence as they grow.

WE LOVE OUTSIDE PLAY

We love to spend time outside at least twice a day, weather permitting—including infants. Outdoor playtime is so much fun for infants, and it helps them grow and love playing with nature.

GROUP TIME

Group time happens every day in our toddler classrooms. It is their time to come together as a community and hear a read-aloud story and start off some learning. Children learn vocalization and identifying objects. Languages including American Sign Language and Spanish are introduced.

LITTLE EXPLORERS

Toddlers learn best by experimenting with their environment through hands-on activities and play.

TRAINING THEIR MUSCLES

Daily opportunities to exercise and increase coordination and strength. We run, jump, roll and bounce in our secure and closely monitored indoor and outdoor

FUN CHOICES

Eye level stations allow them to start achieving independence by choosing activities as they become aware of themselves and their surroundings.

FUN WITH OTHERS

Children become aware of other children around them. They learn to play alongside them. This encourages communication, attention, persistence and curiosity.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Fine motor skills are developed through coloring, painting, working puzzles and building with blocks. Activities give little ones plenty of opportunities to express creativity, solve child-sized problems, and develop curiosity.

GROUP TIME

Group times gets us together to learn about each other, exchange ideas, listen to stories, language development and many more group activities that encourage interaction among themselves, their environment and with the teacher.

EXPRESSING CREATIVITY

Guided activities to allow participation sensory participations, simple science investigations and creative activities.

BUILDING AND CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS

Developing critical thinking skills, cooperation, expressive and receptive vocabulary via dramatic play. Children also learn taking turns, kindness and emotion control.

OUTSIDE TIME

2-year-olds enjoy the entire world as their playground. They have increasing independence through exploration and problem-solving abilities.

LEARNING NEW THINGS

STEAM learning through exploration of sizes, sorting, matching, coloring, painting and making creative structures.

STRUCTURES EXERCISES

Developing ability to coordinate and combine large muscle movements through structured activities such dance, tumbling and Yoga.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Learning to interact with books, engaging read-alouds, learning concepts of print, rhyming songs and fingerplay build vocabulary skills both in quality and quantity.

REASONING AND PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS (STEAM)

Easy-to-use activities developed around early brain development to enhance problem solving skills and logical reasoning.

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT

Experiencing the joy of physical movement by playing games, dancing, tumbling and structured exercises in our secure and closely monitored indoor and outdoor play gyms.

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Using our fingers painting, making small projects, coloring, working puzzles and practice pre-writing skills to refine our fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

GROWING RELATIONSHIPS

Encouraging positive interactive play with peers, respecting other children’s feelings, kindness, sharing, taking turns and mastering self-help skills allows developing long term friendships. Following through commitment is also important at this stage.

CELEBRATING ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Enjoying accomplishing independent projects and getting back positive feedback.

GETTING KINDER READY!

We use Frogstreet pre-school program a core Pre-K program that develops the whole child. Frogstreet inspires big learning across all domains and grows early learners into confident kindergarten-ready students. We start introducing structure, routines, turns, and following instructions while maintaining good levels of independence.

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS

Pre-K learners need social-emotional connections every day because they help children relate to one another and the world they live in. We use Conscious Discipline®, a comprehensive classroom management and social-emotional component that creates a positive learning environment where children feel safe and loved and learn to treat others positively.

MOVING THOSE MUSCLES!

Best education for children is how to play and use their imagination. But we also know that structured physical activities are important in developing those large muscles and fine motor skils. We offer tumbling, swimming, karate and biking days. We also have weekly sports day doing a variety of sports activities.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT!

We introduce focused learning in PreK children and increase time on projects as we get closer to graduating pre-K. This allows the children to build their confidence. Routines for reading, collaborative work, Geometry and Spatial awareness, numbers, measurements, patterning, science, art and writing are introduced. Collaborative work teaches the children patience and builds friendships.

LARGE AND SMALL GROUP CENTERS

Frogstreet daily large circle time and small-group instruction in math and literacy, along with a variety of learning center activities, support learning independence. As small groups of students meet with the teacher, other students work independently in learning centers that are tailored each week to the theme and focus question.

CONFIDENT TEACHERS AND ROLE MODELS

Teacher training and support is provided by the frogstreet staff and Raising Stars is also part of the Collaborative for Children to ensure superior care and education for the children. Continuing education builds fidelity of instruction and student success.

FIELD TRIPS!!

Field trips encourage curiosity in children and sometimes enforces what they learn in the classroom. Learning about animals is fun at a petting zoo or learning planets at NASA or learning about plants in our own garden or taking a hike in the close by woods.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

We offer Spanish, sign language, karate, swimming and love our gardening program. The children learn to plan, weed and take care of the garden and are proud to eat fresh vegetables from their garden!

COMMUNITY FRIENDSHIPS

Some of our favorite activities is spending time with our friends in the nursing homes. We love to sing for them, play cards or do puzzles together! They love our costumes during Halloween. The children look forward to going there.