Infants
Sonnets Academy’s Infant Program is designed to serve infants from 6 weeks to 15 months. The program’s purpose is to provide a safe, loving environment in which infants feel secure and grow physically, emotionally, socially, and cognitively.
The schools mission of continuity of care is designed to promote attachment. Infants and teachers develop close caring relationships that strengthen over time. The program continually looks at ways teachers can build trust and deepen understanding.
The Infant daily schedule follows the rhythm of the child by catering to individual eating and sleeping schedules. Infants participate in tummy time and work on achieving milestones such as rolling, crawling and holding their bottles with the guidance and assistance of our exceptional teachers.
Toddlers
Sonnets Academy’s Toddler Program serves children 15 to 24 months. Small groups support high quality interaction between teachers and children. In small groups, children are more cooperative, more likely to engage in spontaneous verbalization, and are more responsive to their peers.
Toddlers who are supported by the teachers and develop secure attachments are more likely to explore their environment. It is through this primary care-giving process that children develop a sense of trust, security and comfort.
Our Toddler Program balances child-directed play and teacher led activities in art, math, science, early literacy, and movement. Teachers promote process-based projects that build a toddler’s curiosity and encourage them to explore their environment. Developmentally appropriate materials and toys in our toddler classrooms promote fine motor skills and cognitive development.
The Toddler daily schedule focuses on language development through stories, movement and song. Toddlers also explore science through sensory materials, work with different art mediums and tools as well as express themselves through dramatic play and music.
Two’s
Sonnets Academy’s Two’s Program encourages the two’s curiosity and nurtures their imaginations. Through small group and child directed play, twos engage and participate in a number of different activities throughout their school day. Art activities are made to be tactile and sensory-based so students can explore all types of materials from sticky, wet glue to molding and crushing play dough.
Our teachers build language skills by encouraging our two-year-old students to use their words to describe experiences and to ask questions that make connections and turn their play into learning experiences. Through language we also build self-help and problem solving skills by motivating students to articulate and ask for what they need. They also practice self-help skills such as putting on their own coats, using the potty and washing their hands.
Our two-year-old students love to use their bodies and express themselves through movement, so we offer many opportunities for the twos to climb dance and run. A supportive environment is at the heart of our schools - to help the twos feel safe and fully enjoy their school experience.
Preschool
Sonnets Academy’s Preschool Program is designed for the development of the whole child. The inter-related aspects of development we focus on are: cognitive, physical, emotional and social development. In our program we help the child grow in independence, social skills, motor skills, self-esteem, self-control, thinking and reasoning skills, motor skills and language ability. We believe that our goals will help the child develop a positive self-concept: a good feeling about himself and the world.
Our Preschool Program focuses on building confident, life long learners by making our preschool curriculum challenging, but developmentally appropriate. Through small group activities teachers are able to focus on each child’s individual learning style to better challenge each student. Our goal is to build an excitement in learning that will last a lifetime.
Sonnets Academy’s Preschool program works with all learning objectives such as science, math, art, literacy, and social emotional development while incorporating new subject areas such as social studies. Our preschoolers learn about their community, different cultures and helping others. They start learning about themselves to build their own social and emotional confidence as well as shape their problem solving skills.