Becoming a "Great Place for Babies" school with our Bright Horizons Family Soutions partner has been a joy for our congregation. Now, people of all ages have a special place here at Temple Israel.

Our Great Places for Babies program is designed to provide a warm, welcoming environment where your baby can thrive and grow from a bundle of joy to a bundle of curiosity. With our emphasis on creating a loving, healthy, and safe place for your child to feel secure, each baby’s primary caregiver is a nurturing child development professional who is responsible for your baby’s prime times: those critical one-to-one moments of caring, play, and communication.

Even these youngest of children are encouraged to learn about their world through our developmentally appropriate curriculum that invites exploration, celebrates each important milestone, and supports the transition from the sensory motor world of infancy to the increasingly social and self-directed world of toddlers.

Bright Horizons provides a child care experience that helps babies:

• Make sense of the world by exploring a rich sensory environment filled with different sights, sounds, textures, and sensations.
• Discover and develop all bodily powers with room to grow and soft, safe places to roll over and pull up, to creep and crawl, and to step out into the world.
• Deeply connect with others in a caring community that helps your baby form relationships that foster a sense of security and trust.
• Learn to communicate fully in a place filled with wonderful conversations, poetry, finger plays, singing, reading, and lots of smiles and hugs.
• Discover how everything works with quality educational materials and learning experiences that evoke and satisfy your baby’s natural curiosity. *

TWOSDAYS, A FREE drop-in for children approaching 2 years of age will begin later in the year. Watch our Website for the start date announcement or e-mail us to request notification by email.

* 2011 Bright Horizons Family Solutions LLC www.brighthorizons.com