Infants
Love and Care for the Little Ones
Baby care is about more than just a beautiful and safe environment; it’s about how you feel.
Baby care is about more than just a beautiful and safe environment: it’s about how you feel.
Little Star Day School specialised in caring for the youngest children since its inception. In our small baby group, children ages 6 to 18 months feel safe and comfortable. The “nest”, as we affectionately call their room, provides an exciting and stimulating environment for them to explore, play and learn.
Our baby specialists are experienced and adhere to your dietary and routine guidelines. Unique to us is the Little Star Bottle Bridge © program that supports breastfeeding moms and their babies. Learn more about this program, available exclusively at Little Star Day School.
Our Nappy Curriculum©
Our research-based Nappy Curriculum© was developed by us to create a good start for your baby’s development and learning. Safe and stable attachments play just as important a role as learning through play in an environment that stimulates all the senses and encourages baby to explore the world around them. Our Nappy Curriculum© is supported by our MyWorld© and MyDay© concepts. For example, the inviting care rooms (the “nest”) under our MyWorld© concept have been carefully designed to support all of your baby’s exciting developmental milestones.
Daily Schedule with MyDay©
During the day, our educators provide age-appropriate activities. These activities invite the children to explore and discover. This playfully stimulates early childhood learning. At the core our unique program are the following components:
- Focus-Time: One-to-one interactions to build trusting relationships in everyday moments.
- Shared Reading: “Reading” and viewing age-appropriate picture books promotes listening comprehension, expands vocabulary, and grows a love of reading.
- Creativity: Painting with finger paints, songs and finger rhymes, and role-playing stimulate creativity.
- Motor skills: Babies develop their fine motor skills, for example, by clapping, picking up things and holding on to their favorite toy. This encourages hand and finger skills as well as hand-eye coordination.
- Baby hand signals: By making a few hand signals – such as “more” and “please” – babies can communicate needs at an early age, encouraging language development. In addition, this opportunity to communicate through hand signals reduces what is known as preverbal frustration by closing the gap between the desire and the ability to communicate.
- Activity Boxes: Natural and everyday objects that encourage exploration and stimulate curiosity. Children learn with their senses. Our activity boxes stimulate them in a variety of ways.
- Exploring nature: Spend time outdoors on walks and field trips to explore nature and stimulate motor and sensory development in a new environment.
- Focus-Time: the one-to-one interactions to build trusting relationships in everyday moments.motor and sensory development in a new environment.
- Shared Reading: “Reading” and viewing age-appropriate picture books promotes listening comprehension, expands vocabulary, and grows a love of reading.
- Creativity: Painting with finger paints, songs and finger rhymes, and role-playing stimulate creativity.
- Motor skills: Babies develop their fine motor skills, for example, by clapping, picking up things and holding on to their favorite toy. This encourages hand and finger skills as well as hand-eye coordination.
- Baby hand signals: By making a few hand signals – such as “more” and “please” – babies can communicate needs at an early age, encouraging language development. In addition, this opportunity to communicate through hand signals reduces what is known as preverbal frustration by closing the gap between the desire and the ability to communicate.
- Activity Boxes: Natural and everyday objects that encourage exploration and stimulate curiosity. Children learn with their senses. Our activity boxes stimulate them in a variety of ways.
- Exploring nature: Spend time outdoors on walks and field trips to explore nature and stimulate motor and sensory development in a new environment.
Little Star Bottle Bridge©
This offer for nursing mothers is unique. As a specialist in the care of babies, Little Star Day School has developed this innovation. With it, Little Star Day School supports breastfeeding mothers and their babies. This way, mothers can leave their baby with us with peace of mind and be sure that their baby is doing well.
Our decades of experience have shown us that the stresses on breastfeeding mothers are great. When it’s time to return to work, mothers are faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to continue breastfeeding their baby. Our trained baby experts bridge the gap by supporting each mother’s personal decision: whether it’s to breastfeed, provide breast milk from a bottle or bottle feed. Our team of baby experts has in-depth knowledge in the following areas:
- Respecting a mother’s decision to breastfeed.
- Building trusting relationships with the breastfeeding mother.
- Knowing the benefits and challenges of breastfeeding.
- Properly feeding expressed milk from a bottle.
- Proper handling and storage of breast milk.
- Preparing bottle feedings.
- Helping to start supplemental feedings of porridge and vegetables.
