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At Bright Beginnings Nursery and Preschool we work with you as a team to help shape the future of your child.  As parents, you are the primary influence and teacher in your child’s life and we believe that only by working closely as a team we can accomplish the goal of providing the highest quality care for your child.

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Our Infant and Toddler Program provides a caring, welcoming environment where your baby can grow from a bundle of joy to a bundle of curiosity. In this loving, healthy, safe place, your baby will receive individualized attention for development, care, and play.

Your baby’s primary caregiver is a nurturing child development professional focused on keeping your baby happy, engaged, and secure. We develop a personal care plan for each infant based on his or her unique schedule, nutritional guidelines, and any other special attention he/she requires.

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An Exceptional Place for Your Baby to Thrive

More than just daycare, at Bright Beginnings your baby will experience an environment that invites exploration, celebrates each milestone, and supports his or her exciting progression through babyhood. The infant program is designed for babies to:

• Make sense of the world by exploring a rich sensory environment of stimulating sights, sounds, textures, and sensations

• Discover and develop all bodily powers in soft, safe surroundings – to roll over and pull up, to creep and crawl, and to step out into the world

• Connect deeply with a caring community and form relationships that foster security and trust

• Learn to communicate, surrounded by wonderful conversations, poetry, finger plays, singing, reading, and lots of smiles and hugs

• Discover how things work with quality educational materials and learning experiences that spark and satisfy natural curiosity

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Keeping You Part of Your Baby’s Day

At the end of the day, you’ll know just what excited, delighted, and comforted your child that day. From bottle to nap times, from songs we sang and more, we love to show and tell your child’s experiences through daily communications. Regular phone calls and conversations are all part of this important partnership.

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The Infant and Toddler Program

Bright Beginnings Nursery and Preschool recognizes that the first two years of life are an extraordinary time that sets the stage for all the years that follow.

During these years, children need to acquire what psychologist Erik Erikson called "basic trust," a pervasive sense of the essential trustworthiness of oneself and others. It is the sense of safety and security that comes from responsive, predictable care from familiar people to whom one is attached. Without this sense, the world is far too scary a place to cope with and learn about.

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The child's first two years are critical for the development of the brain and language development. During this period, the child's life experience plays a fundamental role in the "hard-wiring" of the brain, laying the foundation for all intellectual and emotional development to follow. From birth, babies are marvelous learners, immediately investigating the sights, sounds, and feel of the world. Long before walking and talking, they are exploring their own bodily powers and what the world has to offer. They need a safe world rich with opportunities to actively explore and enjoy: to see, hear, feel, touch and move. They need a world filled with responsive interactions and language: many "conversations" with others, books (for even the youngest babies), songs, and a great deal of listening and responding to their vocalizations and words.

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Infants and toddlers are sensory motor beings. They explore the world with their senses and developing motor skills. Long before they understand concepts like "under" or "far" with their minds, their bodies are learning to navigate the up and down, over and under of the physical world. Their perceptions are sorting out sizes, colors, and shapes. The curriculum provides infants and toddlers with a rich learning environment with appropriate learning centers planned and organized to maximize:

• Large and Small Motor Experiences: For younger babies: reaching, grasping, kicking, holding, pulling and standing, creeping and crawling in, out, over, under. For toddlers: gripping, throwing, manipulating, walking, climbing, pushing, pulling, etc.

• Sensory Experiences: Explorations of texture, color, patterns, size and shape, smell, taste, weight.

• Cognitive Experiences: Object permanence, spatial relationships, classifying, collecting and dumping, cause and effect experiences, problem-solving.

• Language and Music: Adult-child conversations, reading and language play, explorations in music, rhyming, and sound explorations.

• Personal Expression: Art, movement, imitation and beginning dramatic play, doll and stuffed animal play.