Jamestown Early Learning Center
Infant Curriculum
Our infant curriculum is based on the Rhode Island Early Learning Standards. Each of the 9 standards are mastered through daily lesson plans, daily observations and a complete assessment book that is given to parents when the child moves to the younger toddler classroom.
Social and Emotional Development
- Relationships with Others
- Infant forms relationships with caregivers
- Infants turn to caregivers for comfort and security
- Infants explore using a caregiver as a secure base
- Infant shows interest in other infants
- Sense of Self
- Infant shows interest in their body and its movements
- Infants watch and use their hands, begin to self feed finger foods and manipulates toys
- Infant feels competent and proud of what they can do
- Infant comforts self by seeking out special object or caregiver
- Infant is comforted by caregiver’s words, touch or sound of voice
- Infant is comforted by daily routines and anticipation of feedings
Language Development
- Receptive Language
- Infant responds to comforting tones
- Infant responds to toys, music and sounds
- Infant responds to voices
- Infant gazes at faces
- Older infants respond to simple requests
- Older infants respond to their names
- Expressive Language
- Infants make different sounds for different purposes
- Infant responds by cooing, smiling etc when they see a familiar person
- Infants look towards adults for stimulation
- Infants imitate sounds and words
- Infants repeat actions that mean something they want
C.Pragmatics
- Infant looks towards person when they are speaking
- Infants express “more” interaction by kicking legs or squealing etc.
D. Language Development of Dual Language Learners
- Infant responds to an adult voice in any language
Cognitive Development
- Logic and Reasoning
- Infant explores objects using senses
- Infant repeats activity to make sounds
- Infant develops learning schemes
- Infant begins to discover cause and effect
- Infant develops person and object permanence
- Infants respond to caregivers differently than unfamiliar people
- Older infants remember location of meaningful objects
1.Infant responds to simple command
2.Older infant will attend to book for short time
D.Cognitive Flexibility
1.Infant is able to self soothe to self soothe
2.Infant will use a familiar object in different ways
3.Infant can use their body as a tool
4.Older infants will show comfort in routines.
Literacy
A. Phonological Awareness
- Infant shows interest in books
- Infant vocalizes and gestures to communicate
- Infant will respond to adult reading a book
- Infant will respond to visual stimulus
1. Infant will show interest in books among toys
2. Infants will explore books by holding and touching
3. Older infants will look at books alone and point to pictures when named by adult
D. Comprehension and Interest
1.Infants will explore books with senses
2.Infants will listen to caregiver when they are reading
3.Older infants will ask to be read to
4.Older infants will show an interest in a favorite book
E.Literacy Development for Dual Language Learners
1.Infants will respond to books read in any language
F.Emergent Writing-Learning Goal 6a
1.Infant responds and is attentive to facial gestures
2.Older infants will explore writing tools by scribbling
G.Emergent Writing-Learning Goal 6b
1. Infant will respond to stimuli in environment
2.Older infants will use art media to mark or scribble on paper.
Creative Arts
A.Experimentation and Participation in the Creative Arts
1.Infants will be exposed to different genres of music
2.Infants will be exposed to repetitive rhymes and songs
3.Infants will use their body to show pleasure in hearing music
4.Infants will use objects to make sounds
5.Older infants will explore art using multiple media
Physical Health and Motor Development
A.Health and Safety Practices
a.Children engage in structured and unstructured physical activity
1.Infants engage in physical activity
2.Infants will move from floor activity, to bouncy, to movement with caregiver
3.Older infants will participate in active physical play
b.Children become increasingly able to identify unsafe situations and gradually learn strategies for responding to them.
1.Infant responds to unfamiliar person
2.Infant responds to stressful situations
3.Older infants begin to respond to redirection
c.Children develop self-help skills
1.Infant will express physical needs
2.Infant will respond to needs being met
3.Older infants will begin to feed self
4.Older infants will participate in health care routines
B. Gross Motor Development
a.Children develop large muscle control, strength, and coordination
1.Infants move body, arms and legs with increasing coordination
2.Infants develops movement in body, to move from place to place
3.Older infants develop balancing skills
b.Children develop travelling skills
1.Infants learn to use bodies to get from one place to another
2.Older infants master walking
C. Fine Motor Development
a.Children develop small muscle control, strength, and coordination
1.Infants reach for, touch and hold objects purposefully
2.Older infants use fingers and whole arm movements to manipulate and hold objects
b.Children develop writing and drawing skills
1.Infants use pincer grip
2.Older infants experience writing tools
Science
A.Scientific Inquiry and Application
1.Infants explore toys using senses
2.Infants will experience and investigate manipulatives in their environment
3.Infant experiences cause and effect
4.Infant will recognize self and family members
5.Infants will recognize sounds in environment
6.Older infants will identify body parts
7.Older infants will recognize that they can move things
B.Children explore the characteristics of objects and materials that are living, non-living, manmade or naturally occurring
1.Infant will show interest and curiosity in people
2.Infant will show an interest about the natural world
3.Infants will explore body parts
4.Infant will explore the properties of objects and materials
5.Older infants will explore the characteristics of living things
Social Studies
A. Self, Family and Community
a. Children gain awareness of how they relate to their family and community, understand social roles and responsibilities, and recognize and respect similarities and differences in people.
1.Infant will learn acceptable and non acceptable behavior
2.Infant will demonstrate in interest in themselves
3.Infant will show expression when seeing someone familiar
4.Older infants will show difference between known and unknown people
5.Older infants will look to adult for assistance or reassurance
B.History and Geography
b.Children understand concept of time (past, present and future) and place.
1. Infants find comfort in daily routine
2. Older infants respond to changes in schedule or routine
Mathematics
A.Number Sense and Quantity
1.Infant will use sign language to represent “more”
2.Older infants shows concept of 1 and 2 and more and less
B.Number Relationships and Operations
1.Infants will explore relationships between objects
2.Older infants will demonstrate one to one correspondence
3.Older infants begin grouping objects
C.Classification and Patterning
1.Infants will recognize objects as similar
2.Infants will begin to repeat movements
3.Infants will begin to repeat vocal sounds
4.Older infants will begin to form sets
5.Older infants will experience patterning with rhythmic sounds
D.Measurement, Comparison and Ordering
1.Infants will explore size and shape through senses
2.Older infants will explore size through exploration
3.Older infants will begin comparison of objects
E.Geometry and Spatial Sense
1.Infants will explore shapes in their environment
2.Infants will develop spatial awareness
3.Older infants will explore the ways that shapes and objects fit together
4.Older infants will notice similarities and differences in the shape of objects