We focus on four main areas of your child's development: Physical development. Babies love to move, and all actions are learning activities for them. As your baby tries new skills and masters them—standing, walking, climbing—his caregiver responds to his growing independence by giving him more complicated toys and materials to explore safely. Social and emotional development. From the moment infants are born, they're ready to learn through meaningful interactions with people who care for them. As your baby grows, his caregiver will be there helping him learn how to share, take turns, treat others gently, and make friends. She'll encourage and guide him when necessary. Thinking (cognitive) skills. Your child is curious about the world around her. Your child's caregiver provides experiences that help her learn about cause and effect, imitate adults in her play, and use her problem-solving skills. Language development. Your child's caregiver helps him learn new words—and how conversation works—when she talks to him, waits for his response, and then responds to his sounds.

The two-year-old classrooms utilize The Creative Curriculum five star rated by the Maryland Department of Education, a research-based early child care and education curriculum. At this age, your child is learning at a rapid rate, and as they grow and develop, the teacher adapts the curriculum, as well as the environment to meet both your child’s needs as well as their interests. Each classroom has a lesson plan created weekly, with activities individualized to the specific needs of each child in the classroom. Each activity on the lesson plan is purposeful and intentionally planned based on the teachers’ observations of each child in the classroom.

We can only begin to imagine the future careers that today’s children will take on, which is why it’s so important that we provide them with a strong foundation. Research shows that a whole child approach to education – one where children develop not only math and literacy skills but also the social-emotional, physical, and cognitive skills necessary to communicate, think both critically and creatively, and solve complex problems – is developmentally appropriate and better prepares children for life well beyond their time in a classroom.