The world’s youngest explorers! Children in this program discover, investigate, manipulate objects and use all their five senses in order to learn by experiences and to adapt to their environment. In other words: develop their minds and brain connections!
Commencing at a very early age, Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-School will nurture your child’s development and take care of his/her daily needs the same way you do at home. Our qualified infant teachers will a loving bond of trust with your baby and with you that motivates the child to become more self confident, eager to explore his/her surroundings and to achieve developmental milestones. Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-School offers an environment safe and rich in activities and exercise where our little explorers can be exposed to a wide variety of materials and sensory experiences that will help develop their maximum potential in an environment full of smiles and hugs! Every day, you will receive a log of your child’s feeding, sleeping, diapering and learning activities that we did throughout the day.
Skills that your infant will learn:
Cognitive Skills
Exploring and noticing things
Discover objects with one's hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears, and nose
Imitating and pretending
Discovering object permanence
Exploring art materials
Responding to and identifying pictures and photographs
Listening to music
Exposing the concept of "more"
Experiencing amounts of things
Repeating an action to make something happen again: experiencing cause and effect
Motor Skills
Moving parts of the body (turning head, grasping)
Moving the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing)
Filling and emptying, putting in and taking out, stacking objects
Responding to music
Hand and eye coordination
Coloring and Pasting
Communicative Skills
Listening
Communicating nonverbally
Participating in two-way communication
Speaking
Exploring picture books
Exploring and imitating sounds
Enjoying stories, rhymes, and songs
Social Skills
Forming strong trust bonds to the primary caregiver
Building relationships with other adults
Expressing emotions
Playing alone and with others
Sense of Self
Distinguishing self from others
Solving problems encountered in exploration and play
Doing things for one's self
Pre-School I: 2 years to 3 1/2 years (ratio 1:10)
Independence is the key! This is the time where the child learns and develops in many ways. The child's five senses get polished even further and everything the child learns is meaningful. During this time, toddlers strive to be independent and want to do everything themselves including imitating adults. We work hard in creating strong loving bonds between child and teacher that can promote trust, autonomy, self esteem and understanding to the child.
At Nelly's Childcare and Pre-School, we understand the key changes in the child's mind and the new skills that need to be explored by the child to help them become more independent. We believe that children learn through play, thus teachers promote them to participate in short class activities, arts and crafts and free play throughout the day. Nelly's Childcare and Pre-School provides an environment safe and rich in activities, such as dramatization, dancing, arts and circle time. We use many materials that will help develop their maximum potential in an environment full of smiles and hugs!
Skills that your toddler will learn:
Cognitive Skills
Exercise the sequence of actions
Imitating and pretending
Learn to categorized objects according to colors
Exploring building and art materials
Learn the alphabet and numbers
Experiencing colors and shapes
Learn to identify their name
Motor Skills
Climb on playground equipment
Throw and kick a ball, jump and hop
Run and walk
Hold crayons and paint brushes
Draw and color pictures
Paste paper
Dancing using all their bodies
Do simple puzzles, connect and separate manipulative toys and building blocks
Communicative Skills
Learn to talk in simple sentences
Learn to follow-up simple instructions
Learn new songs and sing along
Learn to express their feelings in simple words
Social Skills
Communicate emotions to others by using words
Learn to take turns
Learn to use the different classroom materials and how to handle them
Sense of Self
Learn to clean up after playing
Learn to wash hands before eating
Learn to brush teeth after eating
Start with potty training
Feeding themselves using utensils
Learn to dress by themselves
Pre-School II: 3 1/2 years to 4 1/2 years (ratio 1:12)
Discovery of their own uniqueness! We understand that children learn most through social interactions and experiences. At this time the child refines their motor skills while still exploring their surroundings. Children are most attentive to new stories, learning experiences and their environment. They are eager to do things right and in most cases, to do things over and over again!
Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-School program combines the areas of socio-emotional, language, physical and cognitive skills of the child. We strive to create a positive and nurturing environment in order to provide among others, a constructive attitude towards school, curiosity and critical thinking as part of their development. We recognize the importance of the early years in a child’s life and development. We are strong promoters of your child’s uniqueness and we encourage this via positive reinforcement, praising and discussions of child’s work to increase their self esteem and curiosity.
Skills that your child will learn
Cognitive Skills
Recognize and pronounce sounds of letters from A to Z
Identify and being able to count to 30
Identify colors and shapes
Differentiate between small and large
Develop concentration skills and memory skills
Begin to understand and learn new concepts
Understand concepts of over and under
Write and recognize their names
Motor Skills
Hold a pencil, crayon or maker properly and comfortably
Throw and catch a ball
Display hand preference
Cut with scissor from one side of paper to another following lines
Balance using one foot
Draw lines, shapes and pictures that are recognizable to adults
Perfecting skills such as jumping, climbing and running
Communication Skills
Expressing feelings verbally using complete sentences
Name people, objects, actions and places
Describe action taking place in the present
Identify alphabet letters
Repeat and use new vocabulary
Social Skills
Develop self control and consideration for others when playing
Develop of confidence and interest in learning
Learn to show appropriate behavior in situations
Learn to decide toys and appropriate tools when playing
Identify people by gender
Work independently and complete tasks with minimal assistance
Show leadership skills
Share and take turns
Self-help skills
Find and put back my materials independently
Dress and undress independently
Learn to take care of bathroom needs without assistance
Clean up after activities
Practice self control
Pre-Kindergarten: 4 1/12 years to 6 years (Ratio 1:12)
The Curious! Children are fast learners and are engaged in understanding their world in their own way. Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-school program includes fun and learning activities that will help them understand their surroundings in a nurturing and caring environment.
We realize that children are constantly active and eager to learn new things. Therefore, our program has been designed to not only respect your child’s individuality, but also expand their minds with new activities, games, and technology that can promote their cognitive development. Children are introduced to a variety of activities and concepts in an effort to enhance their creative minds and cognitive development during the Pre-Kindergarten program.
Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-School focuses on positive learning habits that stimulate, guide and challenge your child. This process will create confident individuals that have the necessary skills to have a good transition into 1st grade.
Skills that your child will learn
Cognitive Skills
Classify object according to size, shape and colors
Recognize shapes
Recognize simple patterns and repeats them
Understands concepts such as how many, more/less, big/little, short/tall
Counting to 100
Begin pre-reading and pre-writing
Motor Skills
Participate in physical group activities
Recreate demonstrated rhythms, beats and tempos
Move rhythmically and creatively
Complete activities such as lacing and beading
Work with more complex puzzles and toys
Participates in art activities such as drawing and clay modeling
Communication Skills
Follows directions given to a group and/or individual
Shows interest in stories and books
Tell story events in sequence
Make predictions in a story
Make meaningful connections between a story and their lives
Have memory for events and information
Begin to recognize combinations of sounds
Social Skills
Share and take turns with materials without adult intervention
Establish rules and routines
Have respect for the property of others
Clearly express feelings and ideas to adults and classmates
Interact with classmates cooperatively
After School: 5 years to 12 years
Our after school program is designed to give children a strong auditory foundation so that they will feel comfortable hearing and speaking in Spanish and to continue our immersion program. The classes consist of songs, games, and other fun activities followed by discussion and reinforcement of skills.
Nelly’s Childcare and Pre-School offers a playful curriculum that adapts to the Spanish proficiency level of your child, so that young children may have the opportunity to develop strong listening and speaking skills before beginning literacy instruction in Spanish, and for older children to continue forming a more extensive and rich vocabulary, followed by reading and writing in Spanish.
