Child Care Frequently Asked Questions

Curriculum Content 

Infant-Toddler Development

The educational content of Laalan Paalan infant-toddler programs is built around 41 focal developmental pointers  in 10 curriculum content areas.  These "key experiences," are early childhood milestones that guide caregivers as they plan and assess learning experiences and interact with children to support learning. 

"key experiences" :
Infant-toddler behavior reflecting knowledge and skills in
areas such as communication and language, social
relations, exploring objects, and movement. 

Curriculum Content Areas

• Sense of Self
• Social Relations
• Creative Representation
• Movement
• Music
• Communication and Language
• Exploring Objects
• Early Quantity and Number
• Space
• Time

A list of 41 infant-toddler key experiences


INFANT AND TODDLER

Sense of Self 

• Expressing initiative
• Distinguishing self from others
• Solving problems encountered in exploration and play
• Doing things for one's self 

Social Relations

• Forming an attachment to a primary caregiver
• Building relationships with other adults
• Building relationships with peers
• Expressing emotions
• Showing empathy toward the feelings and needs of others
• Playing with others

Creative Representation

• Imitating and pretending
• Exploring building and art materials
• Responding to and identifying pictures and photographs

Movement

• Moving parts of the body (turning head, grasping, kicking)
• Moving the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing)
• Moving with objects
• Feeling and experiencing steady beat

Music

• Listening to music
• Responding to music
• Exploring and imitating sounds
• Exploring vocal pitch sounds

Communication and Language

• Listening and responding
• Communicating nonverbally
• Participating in two-way communication
• Speaking
• Exploring picture books and magazines
• Enjoying stories, rhymes, and songs

Exploring Objects

• Exploring objects with one's hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears, and nose
• Discovering object permanence
• Exploring and noticing how things are the same or different 

Early Quantity and Number

• Experiencing "more"
• Experiencing one-to-one correspondence
• Experiencing the number of things

Space

• Exploring and noticing the location of objects
• Observing people and things from various perspectives
• Filling and emptying, putting in and taking out
• Taking things apart and fitting them together

Time

• Anticipating familiar events
• Noticing the beginning and ending of time intervals
• Experiencing "fast" and "slow"
• Repeating an action to make something happen again: experiencing cause and effect