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As an Infant/Toddler Educator, I am dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest quality of care that encourages children to develop their fullest potential in all areas of development, socially and emotionally. With more than 13 years of… As an Infant/Toddler Educator, I am dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest quality of care that encourages children to develop their fullest potential in all areas of development, socially and emotionally. With more than 13 years of experience, I believe each child is a uniquely important individual. At Cribs and Cradles, we are dedicated to creating and maintaining the highest quality of care that encourages and enhances children's growth and development in all developmental domains. We work closely with parents to meet each child's specific needs and create a positive environment for all of the children in our program. We help them learn, share, and most of all enjoy their childhood. Through play, exploration, and interactions with peers and supportive adults, children learn developmental skills such as: listening, cognitive, social, emotional, fine, and gross motor skills in a safe, warm and nurturing environment. Our literacy-rich program promotes early language skills and reading readiness, while playful, supervised activities support social interactions. Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold provide a range of multi-sensory activities to help each child grow, learn and develop in the way best suited to their needs. We also use The Creative Curriculum / Ages and Stages assessments tools to measure children's developmental progress and make curriculum adjustments to address and identified needs. Our curriculum plan is reviewed monthly to track progress in achieving milestones in four areas: social-emotional development, physical development, cognitive development, and language development. Infants are evaluated formally five times a year and toddlers three times. We use the results of assessments to track progress in these four areas and to shape our curriculum and instructional planning. Social-emotional development evaluates infant/toddler progress in learning about themselves and relating to others. Physical development evaluates progress through basic gross and fine motor skills. Cognitive development focuses on progress/learning about the world and how things work, and language development focuses on progress in learning in communication and expression. In addition to all of our day-to-day activities, we regularly go to storytime at our local library, go on field trips to the Franklin Park Zoo or the Children's Museum, and on Monday's during the school year, children that are two years and nine months or older attend the countdown to kindergarten program at the Kenny School. My kids and I look forward to participating in all the things we've missed this past year and a half.