Infant Room Daycare
Our infant program is designed to offer a secure place with knowledgeable teachers who honor your family s routine and who know every day that they re not caring for any child but the most important child yours.
Infant room daycare. Infant caregivers care for babies during their developmentally rich first year of life. Sheets swaddles and sleep sacks. They may work in. Create a separate room for this when possible to allow for a noise free environment for babies to rest.
If possible at nap time ensure that children s naptime mats or cribs are spaced out as much as possible ideally 6 feet apart. View our infant curriculum fun learning activities that will help stimulate baby s development through play songs rhymes easy exercises sign language and simple learning games. Brainstorming daycare name ideas. You want to know your child is safe and well cared for.
Daycare forms infant daily report forms this is a nice general form that is easy to fill out. Furnish with adult rocking chairs cribs and other daycare furniture. Some day care centers require that you provide crib sheets and it is best to start with one your baby has slept on for one night at home. Infant daily schedule infants are typically categorized as newborns to one year old.
A little more flexibility is needed within infant daycare scheduling as it will largely be based around their biological schedule of when they need to eat and sleep. The maximum number of children in a group is called the group size. Place bottle station nearby. Of course you should gear the name toward the kids who will be attending but don t forget it is the parents who will ultimately decide if their child will attend.
Your baby will notice the familiar scent from home and it can ease the transition to sleeping in the crib at day care. View our curriculum for infants with fun learning activities designed for babies ages 1 12 months. Keep each group of children in a separate room. When thinking of daycare names ponder the following.
They provide for the physical emotional developmental and social well being of infants. In a family child care home the group is all the children who are receiving care at any one time. Our easy to use lesson plans include lots of fun hands on heuristic and sensory activities play based learning. Infant care has to do more than look right it has to feel right.