The Infants – 3 Program provides abundant opportunities for active learning and is designed to develop awareness, communication skills and relationships with people and the surrounding environment. Young children learn by actively engaging with their environment, through their senses and through social interactions. Riverfield’s personalized curriculum meets the needs and interest of our rapidly developing children. Creative, discovery-based, and social play experiences establish a foundation upon which learning success is built.

Safe Nurturing Environment

Teachers play a vital role in the social development of young children, forming partnerships with parents to provide continuity for the child between home and school. Warm, positive, interactive relationships with adults help children develop a sense of trust in the world and a feeling of success and competence. The sense of well-being and emotional stability fostered by our teachers creates a secure setting in which children learn and thrive – supporting their growing independence as they learn self-help skills such as feeding, hand-washing, dressing, and toileting.

A Day in the Life…

Each day offers children time for structured and self-directed play. Classrooms are extended to include spaces such as the mini-ateliers (art studio) for hand on learning and expressive development, the library for research and the commons, multi-purpose room, and playgrounds for large motor and social development. Our out door environment including nature trails and barnyard, provides frequent on-campus field trip experiences for even the youngest children.

We are committed to continually broadening children’s communication skills, understanding of self, and the community in which they live.