Our Center

The Sprout House has children ages 6 weeks to 2 years divided into 2 groups:  6 weeks - 12 months old and 12-24 months old.  Each group has a full-time lead teacher and an aide so our ratio is maintained at 3-4 children per adult.  Our center is unique in that the babies are able to move throughout the center and use all of the rooms and not be assigned to only one space.  We divide the groups as necessary based on age and development.  We have no more than 15 babies in the center at one time.  

Our daily schedule is set by the needs of the babies.  At around 1 year old, we start transitioning the babies to a more structured schedule, but until that time everything (feedings, naps) is done on each baby's individual schedule.  Because of our small numbers, even after a baby turns 1 year old we are able to transition the babies based on their individual needs.

The teachers choose the toys and activities based on the children's developmental needs and rotate them accordingly.  Children are allowed to move through the program areas freely and choose what they would like to do.  We take the babies outside daily, weather permitting.  

After the older group turns 2 years old, we transition the group all together to Rainbow.

Rainbow is our 2-5 year old house.  We have 20-25 children in the whole house with an on-site director and college students who work part-time maintaining a ratio of 5-7 children per adult.

Each room in the house both upstairs and downstairs is arranged with different activities, for example, a large motor room, a dramatic play room, an art room, etc. The children are divided into the rooms so there are no more than 4-5 per room at a time. We also go outside 2-3 times during the day all year round, weather permitting.

The younger children spend their day working on developing healthy social skills, language acquisition, large and small motor development, and potty training.  

As the children get older we start to focus on helping them learn the fundamentals they need for school (learning in a group, social skills, waiting, taking turns, math, science, language, pre-writing and writing) during all of the activities throughout the day.  We feel that learning is most successful when incorporated into every part of the day.