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Baby Crawling

Infants

Ages 6 weeks to 1 year

Our two infant rooms offer a safe, loving environment where the youngest learners are cared for based on their individual needs and developmental milestones. With a focus on bonding, sensory exploration, and personalized care, infants follow their own natural schedules throughout the day.

Curriculum and Development

The following standards are from the Connecticut Early Learning and Development Standards and used as a foundation for our curriculum.

Cognition

  • Cognitive Flexibility

  • Initiative/Motivation

  • Engagement in Learning

  • Logic and Reasoning

Language and Literacy

  • Receptive Language

  • Expressive Language 

  • Literacy

Social and Emotional Development

  • Regulation

  • Emotional Expression

  • Sense of Self

  • Relationships with Adults

  • Relationships with Peers

Creative Arts

  • Appreciation and Engagement in the Arts

Physical Health and Development

  • Gross Motor

  • Fine Motor

  • Self-Help

  • Physical Health

Physical Health and Development

  • Gross Motor

  • Fine Motor

  • Self-Help

  • Physical Health

Individualized Care, Just Like Home

In our infant classrooms, there is no one-size-fits-all schedule. Your baby's needs always come first. Each infant follows their own feeding, sleeping, and diapering routine, just as they would at home. Diapers are checked at least every two hours and changed whenever needed. Your preferred schedule is our standard, and our caring teachers work closely with you to provide consistency, comfort, and support every step of the way.

We know every child develops at their own pace, and milestones are simply a guide. Some babies may walk early, which other may not until they are 18 months old, but both are perfectly normal. Through playful, engaging daily lesson plans, we encourage each child to meet milestones in a fun and stimulating way. If at any point we feel a child may need extra support, we partner with families, encourage consultations with pediatricians, and provide helpful resources. With family approval, outside agencies and specialists are always welcome in our classrooms to work with individual children, ensuring every baby is supported and celebrated. 

What Your Child Needs to Bring

  • Pre-made bottles labeled with your child's name

  • Food/snacks labeled with your child's name

  • Lunch box/bag

  • Fitted crib sheet *

  • Arm-free sleep sack (if used)

  • Picture(s) of your child's family to hang over their crib *

  • Diapers

  • Wipes

  • Diaper/rash cream (if used) **

  • Sunscreen *

  • Pacifier (if used)

  • Extra clothes (2-3 outfits) *

  • Bag or backpack for extra clothes

  • Shoes for outside (if your child is walking)

* The indicated items will be left at school in the child's designated bin and/or cubby. Sheets will be laundered weekly or if soiled. Parents will be notified if more of anything needs to be sent in. 

** Diaper cream must be brought in unopened and in its original container. It must remain at Beach Babies in the child's designated bin and/or cubby. Parents must sign a diaper cream form provided by us. 

Please do not send in weighted blankets or sleep sacs of any kind!

Please do not send in any stuffed animals, lovies, blankets, or other items for your infant to sleep with as per state guidelines, nothing is allowed in the crib with the child other than a pacifier. 

All items should be clearly labeled with the child's first and/or last name!

A Week As An Infant

Our infant classrooms follow the weekly theme of the center. Below are examples of activities we do with our babies.

0-6 Months

6 Month Milestones

  • Copies sounds

  • Sits without support

  • Plays with others, especially parents

  • Responds to own name

  • Strings vowels together when babbling (ex: "ah", "eh", "oh")

Milestones

Read

A Hug for You

All Eyes on the Pond

Literacy

Look at pictures of farm animals and say their name

*Our teachers talk to the babies when we feed them, change them, rock them, and play with them

Language and Communication

Fluffy Footprint Sheep

Art
Cognitive
  • What sound does this animal make?

  • Move around the room and make animal sounds to encourage the baby to look towards the sound.

Social Emotional

Mirror Play

Place a mirror so the baby can see themself. Move the mirror. Does the baby look for their reflection?

Offer the baby a clean, soft animal teething toy to reach for and practice putting in their mouths.

Tummy Time

With farm animal toys in front of the baby to explore and try to reach for.

Bunny Hop

While laying down, move the baby's legs like they are hopping.

Fine and Gross Motor
Music

Sing and listen to Old MacDonald and make animal noises.

"Brewster the Rooster" and "5 Little Speckled Frogs"

Sensory

Sponge Play

Reach for and squeeze the wet sponge.

6-12 Months

12 Month Milestones

  • Uses and copies simple gestures (ex: waving "bye-bye")

  • Responds to simple spoken requests

  • Says "mamma" and "dada"

  • Pulls up to stand

Read

A Hug for You

All Eyes on the Pond

Literacy

Look at pictures of farm animals and say their name

*Our teachers talk to the babies when we feed them, change them, rock them, and play with them

Fluffy Footprint Sheep

Wiggle our toes in the mud

  • Which animal makes this sound?

  • Move around the room and make animal sounds to encourage the baby to look towards the sound.

  • Hide animal toys in containers, under scarves, in tissue boxes for the babies to find.

  • Stack blocks and knock them over, then rebuild.

Circle Time

Babies sitting in a circle singing, looking at each other, exploring, and communicating.

Hide-and-Seek

Move out of the baby's sight to encourage them to move around to look for you. Reassure the baby that you are still there often by letting them see you, then hiding again

Stack Blocks

Tummy Time

With farm animal toys visual but out of the baby's reach. Encourage the baby to reach for, move, or crawl towards.

Bunny Hop

Hold the baby but let their legs bounce or "hop like a bunny"

Sing and listen to Old MacDonald and make animal noises.

"Brewster the Rooster" and "5 Little Speckled Frogs"

Sponge Play

Sponge squeezes and absorbs

Sensory Table Play

  • Make fake mud with pudding

  • Sensory bottles with different colors, sounds, and objects to look at

  • Finger painting

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