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Seeds, 6 weeks to around 18 months old.

What the Seeds room looks like, and how your baby's day fits into it.

The Seeds room

Infant Programs: ideal for infants to feel safe and nurtured while they learn and explore. We give babies individual attention from specialized teachers so they can thrive.

Two young girls sit together on a yellow playground glider with black steering wheels on green artificial turf, with a white trailer labeled 'TROOP 86' behind a chain-link fence.

What to expect

THERE ARE FOUR COMPONENTS TO OUR INFANT PROGRAM:

A baby's day here covers four areas of growth. Language: sounds, words, and back-and-forth. Physical: fine motor and gross motor, using the five senses, music and movement. Cognitive: exploring materials, cause and effect, problem solving. Social and emotional: calming, connecting, and trusting a familiar adult.

SEEDS 1

Infants from 6 weeks to over a year old who are fully mobile share this room. It has a calm feel, relaxing music, and learning pods with sound-making items, books, and photographs. Each child gets a crib or cot, storage space, and a refrigerator for bottles or breastmilk. Footwear comes off at the door and siblings stay outside the room.

Physical

Babies build small-muscle control reaching, grasping, and picking up objects, and large-muscle control rolling, sitting, crawling, and pulling up. They take in the world through sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Music and movement carry much of the learning, so you will see swaying, bouncing, and hands on everything.

Language

Teachers talk with babies all day, naming objects and answering coos. Books sit within reach, and photographs with text hang at a child's eye level so looking is comfortable. This builds vocabulary, awareness of sounds, and the habit of telling you something and waiting for your answer.

Activities

Children handle real materials for literacy, math, social studies, science, art, and sensory play. That may mean turning pages, stacking and sorting, scooping, or pressing paint. The point is doing, not watching. Ask the teacher which activity your child returned to today.

Yet

We use the word yet on purpose. A baby who cannot roll over can often do it with practice. Teachers name what a child is working on and keep offering it, so children build a can-do attitude, a positive picture of themselves, and the habit of trying again.

What this looks like in practice

In a Seeds room, babies move between sleeping, eating, and floor time at their own pace. Teachers sit on the floor, hold babies, and narrate what is happening. Music plays, lamps stay low, and toys sit in pods a baby can reach. Parents send a monthly routine update, and staff follow it.

The payoff shows up at home. A baby who is used to being answered starts babbling back and forth. One who reaches and grasps at daycare starts feeding themselves sooner. Naps may settle into a pattern. Most of all, your baby learns that a familiar adult shows up when they call. Ask us how we handle a hard drop-off morning.

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