Classrooms | Light Of Mine

NURSERY - 6 weeks to 1 year of age.

During infancy, children develop motor skills, experience tummy time, explore and learn through interaction with their teachers. Our caregivers use this opportunity to work on stretches, leg movements, and ensure the children are practicing hand-eye coordination in order to prepare themselves for the next stages of early childhood development.

As they reach late infancy, our caregivers work with children to develop those core muscles. They’re learning to crawl, express their emotions, and move their legs and arms. Cognitively, they are learning to identify and recognize family members and caregivers as they walk into the room. They’re even learning to produce those first adorable babbling sounds we love to hear.

What our curriculum for infants includes:

Regular playtime including belly and music time, exploration, stimulation, as well as nap and feeding times that we keep consistent with your baby’s individual schedule.
Sign language is introduced to increase early advancement in children’s ability to communicate.
All infants have their own personal cubby and crib.
Toys, gliders, cribs and changing stations are sanitized daily.

TOTS - 1 year to 2 years of age.

As toddlers enjoy their newfound mobility and explore the world around them, our curriculum introduces them to American Sign Language, manners and etiquette and physical fitness programs. By this stage, a child’s leg muscles are ready - once they stand up and take those first steps, they’re off and running, eager to explore. Our toddler education program offers them the opportunity to do so safely. Our program also allows them to develop cognitive skills as they build language, graduate to one to two-word sentences, learn to hold a crayon and eat finger foods.This is also when our toddlers acquire self-helping skills, such as communicating their needs or picking up after themselves. A typical day for our toddlers is filled with stimulating, age-appropriate activities and materials. Our early childhood development toddler curriculum focuses on eye-hand coordination, motor development and problem solving.

Toddlers will experience:

Interactive play, music, stretch and grow fitness, art, yoga and dance.
Outdoor time encourages social engagement with plenty of fresh air and sunshine.
Age-appropriate fitness toys and toddler exercises to keep toddlers on the move.
Self-help skills such as washing hands, picking up after themselves and sharing are taught to toddlers in order to foster social assimilation.

PRESCHOOL PREP - Potty Training Ready

Our Curriculum includes American Sign Language, manners, etiquette and physical fitness for curious preppers who are eager to stay active while learning through discovery and exploration.

Preppers still have the need to explore, but with far more to learn and experience—while still having lots of fun! Up until now, most of the play with infants and tots has been independent. To get preppers more accustomed to social participation, we start each morning with group circle time.

This stage also marks the beginning of a child’s potty-training journey. Our staff frequently asks each child if they have to go to the restroom, and then guides them through the process. Before you know it, you have a potty-trained child.

Our curriculum helps preppers explore, and nurtures their increasing need to communicate. By this point in their early childhood development, preppers have expanded their language skills, and our curriculum helps to enhance their ability to communicate verbally.

What our curriculum for preppers includes:

Daily circle time to encourage social participation and verbal communication skills.
Interactive play, music, stretch and grow fitness, art, yoga, fun with food, experiments and dance.
Manners and etiquette lessons that teach the importance of sharing and kindness.
Outdoor time encourages social engagement with plenty of fresh air and sunshine.

Age-appropriate exercises keep twos active and on the move.
Self-help skills such as washing hands and picking up after themselves to foster social assimilation.
Introduction to potty training with the help of our loving educators and caregivers.

PRE SCHOOL

Our curriculum for pre school includes American Sign Language, manners and etiquette, physical fitness, and an introduction to hands-on technology and stimulating workbooks to prepare children for our pre-k program and beyond.

The pre school program was designed to meet the special needs of maturing children to build a perfect bridge to the classroom that will come next.

As children reach this stage, they experience rapid increases in physical, cognitive, developmental and social skills. We introduce them to a curriculum designed to challenge those skills and to teach children about language, letter recognition, shapes, colors, numbers, science, manners, etiquette, math, art, music and physical fitness.

Reinforced potty training - Once children are mature enough to handle “potty time” by themselves, they may enter our pre-k program, where continued potty training is reinforced and teachers are prepared for “potty accidents.”

What our curriculum for pre school includes:

Our pre school curriculum teaches and reinforces concepts such as colors, shapes, numbers, sequencing and letter awareness.
Interactive play, music, art, science experiments, sensory play and dance.
Continued manners and etiquette lessons that teach the importance of good behavior, sharing and kindness.
Outdoor time encourages social engagement with plenty of fresh air and sunshine.

Physical fitness lessons, yoga, stretch and grow fitness, that promote staying healthy and active.
Continued potty training support with the help of our loving educators and caregivers.

PRE-K LEVEL 1 and 2

Our curriculum includes American Sign Language, a phonics program, manners and etiquette, physical fitness, STEM, and a philanthropy program that teaches children the value of selflessness and giving.

Our pre-k classroom is growing up—potty trained and ready to conquer the world! At this stage, they absorb all of the information around them and are eager to master the new skills they acquire. That’s why we equip our pre-k classrooms with challenging equipment and toys to help satisfy the children’s appetite for knowledge.

Our pre-k classroom is broken up into two separate learning environments, according to chronological age and developmental stage. We do this to provide an environment where children can be independent and exercise a variety of personal, social, and emotional skills with children at similar stages of development.

What our curriculum for pre-k includes:

Vital cognitive skills, such as matching, sequencing, storytelling, and writing are all incorporated into the preschooler’s daily routine.

Socio-dramatic play is encouraged at our imagination station.
Hands-on STEM activities that encourage problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Introduction to our philanthropy curriculum that teaches the values of selflessness and helping others.