Program Details
The Infant Program:
Infants, Waddlers, Crawlers, Walkers
(Six weeks to 18 months)
There are four essential components to our infant program:
-language development
-physical development
-cognitive development
-social and emotional development
Our infants engage in age-appropriate activities to promote cognitive and social development in a warm, nurturing environment. Our infant teachers have training, professional development in curriculum, and a welcoming attitude. TCV recognizes the importance of a child’s first teacher and parent interaction on a daily basis. Each child’s feeding schedule and progress is assessed every day.
The Toddler Program:
Our purpose and goal is to support each child so they will begin to acquire learning approaches that support development and school success, develop personal relationships, develop self-awareness, self-control, and self-expression.
Two year-olds (18 – 36 months)
- Begin to develop gross motor skills
- Controls body movement
- Demonstrates coordination and balance
- Express creativity through movement
- Begin to develop fine motor skills
- Controls hands and fingers
- Shows eye-hand coordination
- Begin to acquire self-help skills
- Feeds self
- Helps with dressing
- Helps with personal hygiene
- Helps with routine tasks
- Begin to practice healthy and safe habits
- Pays attention to safety instructions
- Begins to attend to personal health needs
- Names different foods
- Begin to develop personal relationships with adults
- Build relationships with adults
- Shows feelings of security and trust
- Begin to develop personal relationships with peers
- Demonstrates beginning social skills with other children
- Shows sensitivity to other children’s feelings
- Begins to develop friendship with other children
- Begin to acquire self-awareness
- Shows behaviors that reflect child’s self-concept
- Demonstrates confidence in own abilities
- Begin to demonstrate self-control
- Begins to regulate own emotions and behaviors independently
- Begins to follow simple routines and few rules in a group setting and independently
- Begin to engage in self-expression
- Express self creatively through art and music
- Demonstrates imagination through dramatic play
- Begin to acquire learning approaches that support development and school success
- Shows curiosity in learning new things
- Shows persistence in activities of interest
- Begins to find novel solutions to problems
- Begin to construct meaning from spoken words (receptive language)
- Respond to spoken words
- Follows directions and requests
- Begin to express thought with sounds, words and gestures (expressive language)
- Communicates nonverbally, using motions and gestures
- Demonstrates oral language skills, using words
- Uses oral language in social situations
- Uses oral language for creative expression
- Asks questions
- Begin to develop foundations for reading
- Begins to follow what happens in a story
- Shows beginning book awareness
- Becomes aware of pictures and symbols in print
- Being to distinguish the different sounds of language (phonological awareness)
- Begin to develop foundations for writing
- Scribbles
- Draws simple pictures
- Dictates messages
- Expresses creatively using skills for writing
- Begin to develop the foundations for mathematical reasoning and logical thinking
- Begins to identify basic shapes
- Begin to sort and match objects
- Builds beginning number concepts
- Builds beginning measurements concept
- Begins to solve simple problems using logical reasoning and mathematical thinking
- Explores concepts related to patterning
- Thinks creatively using logical reasoning and mathematical thinking
- Begin to demonstrate early scientific inquiry skills
- Actively explores the environment
- Uses language to describe thing in the environment
- Asks questions about the environment
- Uses tools to experiment
- Begin to develop the foundations for social studies
- Recognize family roles and personal relationships
- Recognize obvious individual preferences and differences
- Recognizes community roles and relationships
- Explore concepts of place and location
Three Year-Old Program:
Our purpose and goal is the build-on the three year-old, “I can do it!” attitude. We will use integrated hands-on activates to challenge our three year-olds. Our teachers use experimentation and exploration to build a higher level of thinking, language, math, social, and motor skills. We incorporate fun with challenging learning experiences.
- Begin to develop gross motor skills
- Controls body movements
- Demonstrates coordination and balance
- Express creativity through movement
- Begin to develop fine motor skills
- Controls hand and fingers
- Shows eye-hand coordination
- Acquire self help skills
- Feeds self
- Dresses self
- Attends to personal hygiene
- Attends to routine tasks
- Begin to practice healthy and safe habits
- Pays attention to safety instructions
- Attends to personal health needs
- Identifies healthy food choices
- Relates own identification information
- Begin to develop personal relationships with adults
- Shows feelings of security and trust
- Use adults as a resource
- Begin to develop personal relationships with peers
- Demonstrates social skills with other children
- Shows sensitivity to the feelings of other children
- Develops friendships with other children
- Begin to acquire self-awareness
- Shows behavior that reflect child’s own self-concept
- Demonstrates confidence in own abilities
- Begin to demonstrate self-control
- Regulate own emotions and behaviors most of the time
- Follows routines and social rules in a group setting most of the time
- Begin to engage in self-expression
- Express self creatively through art and music
- Demonstrates imagination through dramatic play
- Begin to acquire learning approaches that support development and school success
- Shows curiosity in learning new things
- Finds creative solution to problems
- Begin to construct meaning from spoken words (receptive language)
- Respond to spoken words
- Follows directions and requests
- Begin to express thought with sounds, words and gestures (expressive language)
- Communicates nonverbally, using motions and gestures
- Demonstrates oral language skills, using words
- Uses oral language in social situations
- Uses oral language for creative expression
- Asks questions
- Begin to develop foundations for reading
- Acquires story sense
- Shows book awareness
- Builds print awareness
- Begins to distinguish the different sounds language (phonological awareness)
- Begin to develop foundations for writing
- Scribbles
- Draws simple pictures
- Dictates messages
- Expresses creatively using skills for writing
- Begin to develop the foundations for mathematical reasoning and logical thinking
- Identifies basic shapes
- Sorts and matches objects
- Builds number concepts
- Builds measurements concepts
- Solves simple problems using logical reasoning and mathematical thinking
- Arranges objects in simple patterns
- Thinks creatively using logical reasoning and mathematical thinking
- Identifies basic colors
- Begin to demonstrate early scientific inquiry skills
- Actively explores the environment
- Uses language to describe things
- Asks questions about the environment
- Uses tools to experiment
- Begin to develop the foundations for social studies
- Recognize family roles and personal relationships
- Recognize obvious individual preferences and differences
- Recognizes community roles and relationships
- Explore concepts of place and location
Pre-K:
Our Pre-K Program helps children become independent, self-confident and enthusiastic learners. The program encourages children to develop good habits and daily routines. TCV uses child-centered instruction that allows our teachers to facilitate learning in a rich environment that fosters children’s initiative, exploration, and collaborative interaction.
- Language and Literacy
- Focus on communicating and understanding through words, action and print
- Demonstrate understanding of new vocabulary words by following directions
- Repeats short rhyme or song
- Uses new vocabulary in conversation
- Attempts to write
- Retells a story in his own words
- Recognizes letters
- Math Development
- Focus on building connections in thinking by focusing on wonder, curiosity, and observation of how the world really works
- Match numbers to sets
- Match and recognize geographic shapes
- Counts by rote
- Use 1 to 1 correspondence
- Groups or orders item by sizes
- Compares sets of items
- Science Development
- Use a graph to collect and compare date
- Use senses to observe, describes, and compare objects and events to make predictions
- Use a variety of tools and measuring devices to gather information
- Social Studies Development
- States name
- Express pride in accomplishments
- Follows classroom rules or rules to a simple game
- Shows awareness of jobs and their requirements
- Shares family experiences and traditions
- Creative Development
- Moves to music
- Begins to create representational drawings
- Express creativity through a variety of art experiences
- Engages in role play
- Physical and Health Development
- Uses scissors and glue with control
- Builds with blocks
- Assembles puzzles
- Holds pencil/marker between thumb and fingers
- Laces through holes in lacing card
- Maintains balance when hopping on one foot
- Catches a ball
- Brushes teeth properly
- Washes hands properly
- Social and Emotional Development
- Taking a point of view of another
- Expressing, understanding, and discussing feelings of self and others
- Working out problems, social or task, encountered in play situations
- Attends to a single task for an increasing length of time
- Offers alternate solutions to a problem
- Sets personal goals and follows through
Before/After School:
(School Ages)
- We understand that for many busy and working parents, it is challenging to find and enriching environment for before and after care, summertime care, and school holidays.
- The Children’s Village has developed a program, Before/After School Care, school holidays, and summer camp. We instill love of learning for children ages 5 through 12 years old. We’re so excited to offer homework help, supervised activities, game room, and child-directed play in a safe, friendly, and clean environment. We encourage our
school-age children to develop long-lasting friendships.