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New Beginnings
For 6 weeks to 12 months
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Preparing Your Infant for Life's Next Developmental Milestones
The New Beginnings program at Kiddie Academy[ofACADEMY], through our Life Essentials® curriculum, reinforces your infant’s individuality within a loving, nurturing environment. Your baby’s caregiver will support development, catering to your child’s unique personality.
Explore Our Infant Curriculum
Cognitive Development
Language & Communication
Social & Emotional Growth
Gross & Fine Motor Skills
Character Essentials®
Music & More
Learn On®
Explore Our Infant Curriculum
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Development
Helping Your Baby Make Sense of Their Environment
Our educators nurture this critical stage in your child's development by allowing them to respond, adapt to, and learn about their surroundings using all of their senses. By engaging in activities that help them make associations between sights and sounds, children develop an awareness of their environment.
Key Focus Areas
- Understanding object permanence
- Creating sensory experiences
- Exploring similarities and differences with objects
- Engaging in imaginative play
Language & Communication
Language & Communications
Learning How to Express Wants and Needs
Our educators are constantly communicating with your infant to help them make sense of sounds and speech patterns. They’re engaged in activities to help them express and understand both verbal sounds and nonverbal body language.
Key Focus Areas
- Learning words in sign language
- Responding to and imitating sounds and rhymes
- Identifying facial expressions and sounds
- Discovering the joy of books
- Recognizing familiar voices
Social & Emotional Growth
Social & Emotional Growth
Nurturing Environment for Socialization and Personalized Care
We create a safe and secure environment by providing warm, nurturing, personalized care, and responding to your child's signals. Your child will see consistent and familiar faces and engage in activities that encourage cooperation and imaginative play.
Key Focus Areas
- Nurturing healthy relationships
- Developing familiarity with other children
- Learning self-awareness
- Displaying social gestures
- Imitating actions of others
Gross & Fine Motor Skills
Gross & Fine Motor Skills
Developing Strength and Coordination
Our educators assist your child's physical development through tasks that improve coordination, accuracy, and balance. They receive encouragement and positive reinforcement every step of the way.
Key Focus Areas
- Developing core muscle groups
- Engaging in sensory play
- Experiencing active movements indoors and outdoors
- Grasping objects
- Emerging eye-hand coordination
Character Essentials®
Character Essentials®
Introducing Your Child to a Wide Variety of Character Traits
Through our proprietary Character Essentials curriculum and nurturing everyday experiences, we incorporate themes adapted to each age group that help children better understand themselves and each other. Character development activities are individualized to each child.
Key Focus Areas
- Bonding and connections with peers
- Social and emotional support
- Confidence-building techniques
- Self-regulation
Music & More
Music & More
Learning Through Song and Movement
Research shows music improves cognitive development, learning skills, communication, and memory. Our age-appropriate curriculum develops your child’s language skills and teaches them about our world through song using our proprietary Music and More program.
Key Focus Areas
- Listening to music
- Exploring instruments
- Developing rhythm and tempo through dance
- Tracking the source of sound
- Recognizing songs
Learn On®
Learn On®
Learning Beyond the Classroom
There is no end to learning, and there is potential in every moment, everywhere. We designed our Life Essentials curriculum with this in mind, giving you access to projects and activities that extend the learning from your child’s classroom to your home through our Academy Link® app.
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A Day In Our Infant Child Care Program
From drop-off to pickup, we keep the learning fun and consistent for your infant. We work with parents to find out each infant’s napping, feeding, and diapering routine so that we can adapt their schedule accordingly. If your infant isn’t in a routine yet, we’ll help develop one.
Welcome hugs and cuddles
Infants thrive on routines
We work with parents to discover the best routine for each child to help ease the transition from home to Academy.
Learning language through reading, singing, and talking
Gross motor skill development
Fine motor skill development
We help infants build both small and large muscle groups as they explore the world around them.
Nap time…Zzzzz
Play time outside
Sensory play with touch-and-feel toys
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Infant Child Care FAQs
What is your health and safety policy?
Each Kiddie Academy has secure entries, authorized pick-up procedures, cleaning protocols, and completed background checks for all staff. To keep children healthy, Kiddie Academy follows our Health Essentials℠ guidelines to uphold the highest level of health precautions and cleanliness.
What are your teacher qualifications and training requirements?
All Kiddie Academy educators must meet or exceed the state requirements for child care providers, including background clearance, education qualifications, and ongoing professional development.
Do you provide diapers?
We ask parents to provide diapers, wipes, and ointments that are best suited for their child.
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Park Ridge, IL60068
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