Pooh & Friends Learning Center

Our monkey’s curriculum focuses on developmentally appropriate practices utilizing each child’s strengths, needs, and areas of interest. The infant classroom is designed to promote the cognitive, communicative, sensory and motor development of each child. Our art activities such as finger-painting and scribbling teach the infants to control small hand muscles and coordinate eye and hand movement. We encourage language and communication development throughout all activities where we teach the babies basic sign-language and pair the signs and gestures with the words. Our infants also enjoy the playground and go around our neighborhood. If the weather permits we do take buggy rides daily and enjoy the great outdoors.

Our toddlers follow Creative Curriculum to develop their lesson plans and activities. With this curriculum, the focus is on development. Appropriate practices and using strengths, needs, and interests of each child to guide lessons and activities. In the toddler class we focus a lot on exploring our environment in various ways. We love to take walks around our neighborhood and discuss all the things we see, hear and touch on these journeys. Also enjoy having stories read to them. At least one book each day is related to our theme of the week. The children enjoy hearing stories about animals and then they get to pretend to be the animals. The dinosaur is a favorite because the children have fun stomping and roaring around the classroom!

Our goal is to have your preschooler develop and grow to their fullest potential and to prepare them for a successful Pre-K experience. We stay busy with a variety of activities throughout the day including things such as circle-time, academics, and free play. To help us to achieve our goals, we follow curriculum where knowledge builds on knowledge. The curriculum focuses on content within 7 core areas: language arts, literature, history and geography, math, science, music, and visual arts.