Security and Warmth of Loving and Nurturing Care

Sparrows has pioneered the infant program in India to provide you the complete satisfaction of knowing that your precious little ones will receive love and nurturing care in a world- class facility.

Starting at six months of age when infants are barely beginning to crawl, our infant program continues beyond twelve months of age around which time they take their first tentative steps. At around eighteen months, when they are confidently pottering around, we help them transition to our young toddlers program.

We know and understand the importance of constant individual attention at this age. We maintain better than even the most stringent international ratios between teachers and infants to ensure one on one care and love.
Building Relationships of Trust

We want you to feel totally connected with your child while in our care. We encourage you to partner with us to develop a custom plan for your child’s transition. In addition, we enable parents to visit the facility and monitor their child from inside or outside (through closed circuit television) the classroom to monitor their child’s adjustment and development.

At the end of each day, our teachers provide you with communications about your baby’s activities and developmental milestones. The daily report includes:

• Eating, Sleeping and Diaper changes
• Well-being and Development milestones
• Special moments

All-round Development

Our teachers facilitate the many stages of infant development by providing for each child's individual needs. Our infant curriculum is designed to provide developmentally appropriate and engaging activities focusing on all round development of your baby in the following learning areas:

• Feeding and toilet training
• Gross and fine motor skills
• Intellectual stimulation for brain growth
• Language skills
• Music appreciation
• Emotional and social development

Feeding
Our program is designed to wean babies from bottles and gradually introduce sippy cups. We also introduce solid foods starting with lightly mashed fruit and vegetables and graduating them to small bite sized pieces. The program is geared to help development of an eating schedule by the time they move into our young toddlers program.

Toilet Training
Through the infant program, we recommend the use of diapers. We frequently check for dirty and wet diapers, and change them regularly. We ensure your baby remains clean at all times to ensure hygiene and prevent nappy rash. At later stages in the program, depending on the baby’s interest and readiness, we might start toilet training.

Movement
During this stage, babies go through multiple stages of development including, learning to sit by them without support, rolling from back to stomach, crawling, standing, and walking, to probably kicking a ball. We provide a safe environment where our teachers facilitate smooth progress of your baby through the various stages of gross motor development.

We provide activities to help babies develop age appropriate fine motor skills starting from picking up increasing small objects to being able to finger feed themselves and scribble using crayons.

Exploring
Research shows that an infant desires constant new stimuli. The lack of stimuli produces boredom, which researchers have determined can delay development. Providing a variety of stimulating experiences enables babies to begin making the cognitive and social-emotional development connections necessary for enhanced learning. Early childhood experiences affect the development of the brain and lay the foundation for intellectual growth and emotional health for the entire lifetime. Our goal is to provide a nurturing and stimulating environment for building that foundation. From providing a safe and clean environment where the little ones explore the world with their mouths to helping them understand cause and effect and match colors and shapes through developmental toys, puppets, board books and activities, we make sure your child gets the right start in life. We also make music an important part of the day to help develop aesthetic and rhythmic senses.

Language Development
Infants learn an abundance of new skills from recognizing their names to pointing at objects to vocalizing and imitating speech sounds and saying their first words. These milestones are not only key events of infant development; they are building blocks for acquiring language skills in their toddler stage. Providing a stimulating environment and someone to talk to constantly during everyday moments from feeding to changing help ensure that these milestones happen as per nature’s plan.

Emotional and Social Development
Infants begin capturing emotional cues like tone of voice early in life and also start expressing themselves through smiling, crying and hand gestures. They also pass through a phase where they feel uncomfortable and upset with strangers. From self-recognition in mirrors to playing alongside other children to wanting an adult with them, your child develops the foundations to relate to the world around them. We understand that and are alongside the children encouraging them and providing a positive environment at every step of the way.