Baby Tree Mandarin Immersion preschool

Baby Tree Family Child Care is an Mandarin Immersion program. It is a licensed facility providing se This is Perceptual and Motor Development.

At Baby Tree, we offer a warm and respectful environment for children. Our ratios are low which allows for plenty of one-on-one interactions, cuddling and playing together between teachers and children, and between peers. Our teachers support children's Social Emotional Development as they:
• Form attachments; knowing that they have grown-ups in their lives who love and care for them
• Learn to be

part of a group and feeling as if they belong
• Learn to manage their emotions and empathize with others
• Develop a sense of responsibility to themselves and to others
• Understand that there are different rules for different places

We provide a Mandarin Immersion environment to support children as they develop their Second Language Development:
• Receptive language skills; the ability to understand words and increasingly complex communications.
• Expressive language skills; the ability to produce the sounds of language and use vocabulary and increasingly complex communications.
• Communications skills, the ability to communicate, both non-verbally and verbally.
• Interest in print and a love of books

Children Learn Through Play and Experiences. Our role is to facilitate their learning through intentional experiences and activities, environments, and interactions. Through play and experiences, your infant or toddler will develop the following Cognitive skills:
• Cause-and-Effect; the understanding that one event brings about another
• Spatial Relationships; the understanding of how things move and fit in space
• Problem Solving; figuring out how things work
• Imitation; mirroring, repeating, and practicing the actions of others, either immediately or later
• Memory; storing information for later retrieval
• Number Sense; the understanding of number and quantity
• Classification; grouping, sorting, categorizing, or connecting objects according to their attributes
• Symbolic Play; using actions, objects, or ideas to represent other actions, objects, or ideas
• Attention Maintenance; attending to people and things while interacting with others and
• Understanding of Personal Care Routines; understanding and participating in personal care routines such as eating, dressing, and diaper changing or toileting. Kids learn about the world (and people) around them through their senses. We provide a sensory-rich environment for children to safely explore and to be the scientists they naturally are. We also provide the space, equipment, materials, support and encouragement that allow our toddlers to develop both gross and fine motor skills. Our lesson and activity plans, routines, experiences and environment are to ensure that the children in our programs are healthy, happy, and enter kindergarten with the foundation they need to be successful.