Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers

Garden of Blessings provides a LEARNING ENVIRONMENT for Infants and Toddlers

SENSE OF SELF

• Expressing Initiative
• Distinguishing Self from Others
• Solving Problems Encountered in Exploration and Play
• Doing Things for One's Self

SOCIAL RELATIONS

• Forming an Attachment to Primary Caregiver
• Building Relationships with Other Adults
• Building Relationships with Peers
• Expressing Emotions
• Showing Empathy toward the Feelings and Needs of Others
• Playing with Others

CREATIVE REPRESENTATION

• Imitating and Pretending
• Exploring Building and Art Materials
• Responding to and Identifying Pictures and Photographs

MOVEMENT

• Moving Parts of the Body (turning head, grasping, kicking)
• Moving the Whole Body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing)
• Moving with Others
• Feeling and Experiencing Steady Beat

COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE

• Listening and Responding
• Communicating Non Verbally
• Participating in Two Way Communication
• Speaking
• Exploring Picture Books and Magazines
• Enjoying Stories, Rhymes, and Songs

EARLY QUANTITY AND NUMBER

• Experiencing "More"
• Experiencing One to One Correspondence
• Experiencing the Number of Things

EXPLORING OBJECTS

• Exploring Objects with One's Hands, Feet, Mouth, Eyes, Ears, and Nose
• Discovering Object Permanence
• Exploring and Noticing How Things are the Same or Different

SPACE

• Exploring and Noticing the Location of Objects
• Observing People and Things from Various Perspectives
• Filling and Emptying, Putting In and Taking Out
• Taking Things Apart and Putting Together

TIME

• Anticipating Familiar Events
• Noticing the Beginning and Ending of Time Intervals
• Repeating an Action to Make Something Happen Again: Experiencing Cause and Effect

MUSIC

• Listening to Music
• Responding to Music
• Exploring and Imitating Sounds
• Exploring Vocal Pitch Sounds