L.E.A.P.® Curriculum
for infants
Our year-end milestones
While each day is a fun new adventure at TLE®, the lessons and creative infant curriculum are preparing your child to meet important end-of-year milestones—to ensure development at the right pace. For our Infants, those goals are:
- Be exposed to several unique early childhood techniques to build fine and gross motor skills
- Develop their way of communicating their wants and needs by vocalization (cooing) and gestural (pointing/infant sign language) that they can use to obtain adults’ attention
- Be encouraged to explore their curiosity by learning how to crawl and walk
- Work on building age-appropriate first-year developmental milestones
Our curriculum components
Starting in the Infant room, children participate in a new themed program each month that incorporates a wide variety of activities to support every little learner’s overall growth and development. Our monthly themes take children on new and exciting learning adventures through fun hands-on activities that are led by some of our favorite TLE characters.
Our programs for infants
American Sign Language
In this program, infants begin to learn early sign language to communicate their needs—including how to ask for “more” or sign that they are “all done” or “sleepy”—to their caregivers in their classroom, and with their parents at home. This is an important because it enables parental child communication before they even learn words, so caregivers and parents are able to provide for them.
Our daily schedule
6:30–8:30 Greeting the Infants: Parent Communication, Collecting Infant Belongings, Free Play
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:45 Fine Motor Skills: Cause and Effect, Tracking, Grasping, Turning
9:45-10:15 Outside Time: Balls, Push/Pull Toys, Strollers
10:15-10:30 Sensory: Touching, Feely Books, Textures
10:30–10:45 Morning Snack
10:45-11:45 Gross Motor Skills: Pushing, Pulling, Reaching, Crawling, Cruising
11:45-12:00 Lunch
12:00-1:00 Napping or Playground Activity
1:00–2:00 Fine Motor Skills: Pounding, Throwing, Targeting
2:00–2:30 Afternoon Snack
2:30–3:30 Gross Motor Skills: Climbing, Crawling, Rolling
3:30–4:30 Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Looking
4:30–5:30 Music: Rhythmic Movement, Singing, Listening
5:30–6:30 Free Play/Greeting Parents
(Diapering is provided and supervised on an as-needed basis. Infants are fed on an as needed basis.)
Our daily schedule
8:30-9:00 Breakfast: (According to Infant’s Needs)
9:00-9:45 Fine Motor Skills: Cause and Effect, Tracking, Grasping, Turning
9:45-10:15 Outside Time: Balls, Push/Pull Toys, Strollers
10:15-10:30 Sensory: Touching, Feely Books, Textures
10:30–10:45 Morning Snack: (According to Infant’s Needs)
10:45-11:45 Gross Motor Skills: Pushing, Pulling, Reaching, Crawling, Cruising
11:45-12:00 Lunch: (According to Infant’s Needs)
12:00-1:00 Napping or Playground Activity
1:00–2:00 Fine Motor Skills: Pounding, Throwing, Targeting
2:00–2:30 Afternoon Snack: (According to Infant’s Needs)
2:30–3:30 Gross Motor Skills: Climbing, Crawling, Rolling
3:30–4:30 Language Skills: Listening, Speaking, Looking
4:30–5:30 Music: Rhythmic Movement, Singing, Listening
5:30–6:30 Free Play/Greeting Parents
(Diapering is provided and supervised on an as-needed basis.)