Little Sprouts program is more than schedule and routine. The caregiver responds to children's developmental needs by offering throughout the day opportunities for nurturing and learning. The program is flexible and allows for independent, curious and creative learners.
Schedule, routine and transition serve as a framework from which children gain trust, self-confidence, security and order.
The program planning of Little Sprouts Family Daycare takes into consideration five areas of a child's development; and those children learn by doing:
- Physical: Children need to learn self-help skill, health, safety habits and physically manipulate objects and themselves.
- Intellectual: Children need to develop solving problems, be curious about their environment and be allowed to make sense of their world. Activities such as art, music, movement, imaginative play, story and construction are needed.
- Language: Children are encouraged to develop good communicational skills (receptive and expressive).
- Emotional:Children need to be encouraged to express their feelings and develop self-concept and perception of themselves.
- Social: Children need to be encouraged to work cooperatively with others; to respect other's feelings and property and to develop acceptance social skills.
