JUST STARTING PROGRAM: (6 WEEKS – 12 MONTHS)
Preparing your Little Angels for their next development milestones.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT:
The Just Starting Program at LITTLE ANGEL’S FAMILY DAY CARE in Green Brook, New Jersey, is designed to support your infants early development through a thoughtful and responsive curriculum. With a loving and nurturing environment, our educators recognize and respect each child’s individuality while fostering strong foundation for future learning.
Through attentive care and developmentally appropriate experiences, we support your infant’s growth by responding to their unique personality, needs, and emerging abilities. Our program encourages exploration, early communication, and social interaction, helping each child build confidence as they progress toward the next stage.
Our educators support this critical stage of development by creating opportunities for children to explore, respond to, and learn about senses. Through carefully designed activities that connect sights, sounds, texture, and movement, children begin to build meaningful associations and develop a greater awareness of the world around them. These experiences encourage curiosity, early problem-solving, and active engagement with their surroundings.
Focus Areas:
Developing and understanding of object permanence
Participating in rich sensory experiences
Exploring similarities and differences among objects
Engaging in imaginative and creative play.
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
Our educators consistently engage in meaningful communication with infants to help them begin recognizing sounds, speech patterns, and foundations of language, Through attentive interaction, teachers speak, respond, and model language in ways that support early listening and communication skills.
Infants participate in developmentally appropriate activities that encourage them to express themselves while also learning to interpret communication from others. These experiences help children begin to understand both verbal sounds and nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions, gestures, and body language, supporting the development of early social and communication skills.
Focus Area:
Recognizing and responding to and imitation sounds and rhymes
Recognizing and interpreting facial expressions
Developing awareness and recognition of familiar voices and everyday sounds with their environment
Discovering the joy of books through shared reading experiences that faster early listening and pre-literacy skills
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH
We create a safe and secure environment by providing warm, nurturing, and individualized care while attentively responding to each child’s cues and needs, Consistency in caregivers allows children to build trusting relationships with familiar teachers, supporting a strong sense of comfort and emotional security.
Within this supportive setting, children participate in developmentally appropriate activities that encourage cooperation, social interaction, and imaginative play, helping to faster confidence, creativity, and positive early learning experiences.
Focus Areas:
Loving and nurturing healthy interactions
Developing and displaying social gestures
Imitating actions
Learning self-awareness
GROSS & FINE MOTOR SKILLS
Our teachers support each child’s physical development by guiding them through activities that strengthen coordination, accuracy, and balance. Through developmentally appropriate tasks and positive reinforcement, educators encourage children to build confidence in their physical abilities while developing important motor skills. These experiences help promote healthy movement, indigence and overall physical growth.
Focus Areas:
Engaging sensory play
Developing core muscles groups
Grasping objects
Developing eye-hand coordination.
LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC
Our age-appropriate curriculum supports the development of your child’s language skills while introducing them to the world around them. Through our LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC program, children engage in songs, rhythms, and movement activities that encourage listening, communication and early vocabulary development, These musical experiences help foster love of learning while strengthening language, memory, and social interaction skills.
Focus Areas:
Listening to music
Developing rhythm and tempo through dance
Recognizing songs
ALL ABOUT ME & MY WORLD PROGRAM (13 MONTHS – 18 MONTHS)
Our ALL ABOUT ME & MY WORLD PROGRAM at LITTLE ANGEL’S FAMILY DAY CARE at Green Brook, New Jersey supports each infant’s individual development needs. Our educators build caring relationships and provide a nurturing environment where sensory-based experiences encourage exploration, curiosity and early learning.
COGNITIVE LEARNING
At LITTLE ANGEL’S FAMILY DAY CARE, our teachers support the development of language and motor skills, helping infants are meaningful connections that enable them to engage with and respond to their environment; because we believe every moment with your infant is a learning opportunity.
Focus Areas:
Following one step instructions
Exploring objects for cause and effect
Making choices in objects
Identifying and sorting objects
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT:
Our dedicated teachers support infants in progressing from nonverbal to verbal communication, guiding them in expressing needs, thoughts, and emotions through emerging language skills.
Focus Areas:
Naming and identifying items
Answering questions
Repeating words and phrases
Intruding to books
Increasing vocabulary
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROWTH
Infants naturally explore and learn from their surroundings. At Little Angel’s Family Day care, we provide a safe and supportive environment that encourages infants to develop emotional awareness and understanding in a healthy, positive way.
Focus Areas:
Developing sense of pride in accomplishments
Forming independence of thought
Developing calming skills
Forming relationships
Imitating actions
GROSS & FINE MOTOR SKILLS
At this stage, infants are naturally active. Our educators guide them through momovement-based activities that promote motto skill development in a safe and supportive environment.
Focus Area:
Walking independently
Manipulating simple classroom tools
Increasing balance and strength
Developing large muscle control
LEARNING THROUGH MUSIC
According to researchers music improves cognitive development, communication, memory and learning skills. Our age-appropriate curriculum develops your child’s language skills through songs.
Focus Areas:
Understanding rhythm through dance
Listening to music
Joining in with songs and rhymes
Creating musical soundsINFANT PROGRAMS
INFANT PROGRAMS