Communication

All parent/teacher communication occurs through the Brightwheel app.  Teachers will be alerted immediately of your communication and will respond in kind.  Through the Brightwheel app you will be apprised of your child’s daily activities.  You will also be updated throughout the day of your child’s eating, sleeping and diapering experiences.

Arrival/Departure Policy

Attachment and separation are part of a process children must undergo from birth in order to become an individual: separate and be independent within the environment.

Children from birth work towards independence and constructing themselves.  In order to best assist your child towards being capable and building self esteem, we must provide a loving and supportive base for attachment.  It is from this strong base they can reach into the world and detach to explore their environment. The more confident you are in leaving, the more confident your child will feel in being left.

Food

Bottle-feeding should be introduced at home prior to the start of the program.  We have plenty of freezer and refrigeration storage space for breast milk and dry storage for formula.  Mothers are certainly welcome to come in and nurse their babies at any time.  We have created a cozy, quiet space just for this purpose.

For children who have started solid food, you will bring in their food daily in a labeled lunch box container.  This lunch box may contain jars or pouches of baby food, teething wafers and any finger food that you would like them to have.  All finger foods will need to be appropriately cut up into a small and safe size.

Freedom of Movement and Natural Development

Our prepared environment is set up so that children can move freely without restriction.  Our focus is on human interaction and natural simple materials for optimum development.

Gross motor development is usually seen as when an infant reaches a milestone such as sitting, standing, walking etc.  Allowing a child to move on its own will enhance the natural development and variety of its movements and over all development.  Our approach is to allow infants to do what they can, and that a child who is allowed to move freely develops a strong body and sense of balance, good body image, spatial relations, and a sense of balance.