The Honeybee Room has 10 children, ages 6 weeks to 20 months, with 3 teachers in the room at any given time. The teachers are Missy Draper, Colleen Million, Abby O’Dell.

We believe in an emergent, play-based curriculum, and enhance the children’s learning with daily “special” activities.  These are designed to meet the children’s specific interests and developmental stages. Our activities fall into three major categories: Body - which includes gross motor/large muscle activities; Mind - which includes hand-eye coordination, fine motor development, sensory, and literacy ideas; and Spirit - which encourages social and personal development.

Isomil formula is provided, as well as rice cereal and jar baby food (used only after introduced by the family). You are welcome to provide your own food if a special formula, type of food or breast milk is used. As the child grows into eating a regular diet, we provide freshly prepared family-style meals and snacks, served at a low table, right in the infant room.

We promote teacher-child communication, as well as language development, through the use of simple sign language. Signs such as “more”, “all done”, “stop” and “help” enable the children to communicate their needs, even though they may not have the words to tell us.

Infant Sign Language

“More”

“Stop”

“All Done”