Programs
- Infants (6 months – 12 months)
- Eating, Sleeping and Diaper changes
- Well-being and Development milestones
- Special moments
- Feeding and toilet training
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Intellectual stimulation for brain growth
- Language skills
- Music appreciation
- Emotional and social development
- Young Toddlers (12 months – 18 months)
- Eating, Sleeping and Diaper Changes
- Well-being and Development milestones
- Special moments
- Feeding and toilet training
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Cognitive development
- Language skills
- Music appreciation
- Emotional and social development
- Toddlers (18 months – 24 months)
- Playschool (2 years – 2 years 6months)
- Feeding and toilet training
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Cognitive development
- Language skills
- Art
- Emotional and social development
- Feeding and toilet training
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Intellectual stimulation for brain growth
- Language skills
- Music appreciation
- Emotional and social development
- Preschool (2years 6 months – 3 years)
- Feeding and Toilet Training
- Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skills
- Language Devlopment
- Coignitive Skills
- Social and Emotional Skills.
- Nursery ( 3 years – 4 years )
- Balanced nutrition and rest
- Gross and fine motor skills
- Cognitive development
- Language skills
- Art
- Emotional and social development
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:
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 :
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
Hand-holding the way to greater independence
The Young Toddler program is another first from Sparrows. The program is meant to help children who have outgrown infancy but are yet not big enough to participate in a regular playschool program. The program takes in children around eighteen months of age when they are walking around, eating light solids and are on the verge of developing a small vocabulary and be toilet trained. The program helps children develop adequate self-sufficiency to better articulate their needs, develop eating and napping schedules, enhance their cognitive, motor and social skills, and transition into our play-school program after about six months.
The constant individual attention from our infant program is continued into the young toddler program as well with better than even the most stringent international ratios between teachers and young toddlers being maintained.
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 toddler’s activities and developmental milestones. The daily report includes:
All-round Development
Our teachers facilitate the development of young toddlers through individual love and attention. They work on various aspects of development by engaging the child in developmentally appropriate activities through age appropriate toys, music, board books, blocks and other equipments:
Feeding
Our program is designed to develop a proper feeding schedule consisting of breakfast, lunch and evening snack. We also help children develop greater independence in self-feeding themselves. However, given young toddlers are still graduating from the infant stage and their fine motor skills are not sufficiently developed, the program flexibly aids children with feeding them and with irregular bottle and snack requirements while they adjust.
Toilet Training
We help children, when they are ready, to start toilet training while still in diapers. Depending on their overall progress, we then slowly reduce their dependence on diapers, with the objective of eliminating it completely within the young toddler program or early in the playschool program.
Movement
During this stage, toddlers expand their range of movement and gain more confidence in pushing, pulling, throwing, catching large balls, emptying, filling etc They also enhance their fine motor skills by stacking, stringing etc
Our activity center is equipped to provide children the right environment to appropriately develop their motor skills under the nurturing eyes of our teachers. Given children are still not fully in control of their movements, the center is designed to be very safe for children to expand the full range of their movements.
Cognitive Development
Mentally, young toddlers begin to get a better understanding of cause and effect, motion and patterns. Our teachers help stimulate development of their cognitive skills by leading various activities including stacking, sorting, sequencing, arranging, matching and moving using puzzles, toys, blocks etc These activities lay the foundation for experimental understanding, as well as, mathematical, perceptual discrimination and logical reasoning skills. We also make music an integral part of the child’s day to help develop aesthetic and rhythm appreciation. Colors and crayons are also introduced.
Language Development
From enhancing their understanding of spoken words to articulating thoughts themselves, the young toddler is going through an exciting phase of language development. Our teachers constantly encourage spoken conversation, while also expanding book reading for story telling to develop the import of written words. Children also like to scribble at this stage and begin to enjoy holding crayons and pencils.
Emotional and Social Development
Children begin to acquire an understanding of various roles and are most impressionable by their caregivers. Pretend play can start at this stage with children mostly play acting adult activities they observe in their homes and at the center. Our teachers are trained to leverage toddlers imitative skills to help them develop social skills like sharing, playing co-operatively, following adult instructions, appropriately displaying their emotions and learning the importance of every-day tasks.
Our teachers hand-hold your child at each step of the way while helping her develop greater independence, realize her potential and move forward self assuredly and positively.
Learning Autonomy
The playschool program takes in children at around two years of age when they are ready for learning autonomy in various activities. Our teachers work with these little children in a play classroom setting and encourage them on as the children go through rapid physical, mental and social development. Close partnership with the parents is maintained through parent’s classroom participation. Our teachers work with each child on an individual basis to help transition the child into being comfortable while being away from home and parents. Our aim is to ensure that by the time your child enters pre-school, she is happy, autonomous and raring to go.
All-round Development
Our teachers facilitate the development of playschoolers through individual love, attention and encouragement. They work on various aspects of development by engaging the child in developmentally appropriate activities through age appropriate books, toys, music, blocks, models and other equipments:
All-round Development
Our teachers facilitate the many stages of infant development by providing for each child's individual needs. Our play-school 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
During the program, playschoolers get used to eating to a schedule consisting of healthy breakfast, lunch and evening snack. Children are also encouraged to self-feed themselves and finish appropriate sized portions to develop healthy eating habits. The program still allows for some flexibility as children enter the program with different levels of autonomy depending on their home environment and teachers work with each child to ensure that he gets appropriate nutrition. It is also the program’s aim to ensure toilet training is completed within a few months of the child entering the program.
Movement
By the time they are in our playschool program, children are not just walking confidently, they are ready to run, jump, kick and receive balls, scoot and ride. They also develop finer hand and finger co-ordination and love scribbling with crayons and colors.
We provide enough room to playschoolers to safely jump, stack, push, pull and exercise their full range of movements. We also provide them an enclosed outdoor activity area with padded flooring to play and run and another area to ride on wheeled toys. Our teachers help the kids develop their full range of gross motor movements, while also providing them enough opportunities to develop fine motor skills.
Cognitive Development
Playschoolers begin developing finer appreciation for the attributes of their physical surroundings including colors, shapes and textures. They also acquire the skills to match, sort, sequence and solve simple problems and obstacles. Their scribbles start making way into drawings. Our teachers through various age appropriate activities, games and equipment, nurture these foundational cognitive skills.
Art
From appreciating music to playing with musical toys, from scribbling to coloring and from free play to art and craft. The playschool program begins introducing children to a variety of art activities and mediums to broaden their artistic experience and senses and help them pick up whatever they have the most fun with.
Language Development
Talking, singing and reading aloud are key elements of the program that aid in language development for playschoolers. Simple plot stories, rhyming phrases and picture books help them further enhance their abilities to link ideas to language and expand their vocabularies.
Emotional and Social Development
Playing with other children, expressing their feelings through language and understanding of rules are all developed in this stage and encouraged gently through various classroom activities and repetition. The playschool program helps your little ones emerge more confident and autonomous to take on life in pre-school.
This is very important stage for a child. As you watch your chubby toddler becomes a special and self-dependent individual who runs, plays, talks and shows all the complex emotions of an adult. He or she shows a special interest towards developing social interactions. At this age the child has immense potential to grow mentally and emotionally, but at the some time he or she has the emotional maturity to sense any pressure. Hence our program is designed to prepare your child for our nursery program in a relaxed and fun way, so that he or she don't feel even the slightest bit of stress. During this stage, your child's individuality is more pronounced than the earlier stages, thus needs to be nurtured with care without interfering with the natural growth process. Therefore, we expose them to a lot of activities such as basic puzzles, patterns, sensory play materials so that their attention span grows in a natural way.
All Round Devlopment :
Our Preschool teachers facilitate the growth and development of your child through a balanced approach between FreePlay and Planned activities. During this stage the focus is on areas like :
Feeding and Toilet Training :
We provide a healthy and well balanced diet to all children consisting of three meals – breakast, lunch and evening snack..
During this stage at which the children are developing a sense of independence, we encourage them to self-feed. Our teachers supervise mealtimes guiding our preschoolers, so that they develop the habit of self- feeding with very little assistance. The transistion from “baby food” to “normal food” also takes place during this time.
As far as toilet habits are concerned, we initiate the children to toilet training during the toddler stage, but we reinforce it now, as the children are more capable of expressing themselves.
Gross Motor Skills and Fine Motor Skill :
During this stage the children are completely independent in their physical activities. They can walk, jump, crawl, roll and even climb without any assistance.All our classrooms are designed to encourage all kinds of physical activities. We provide equipments like trampoline to improve their gross motor skills.
However we pay a lot of importance in devloping their fine motor skills during this age. We provide activities to improve finger coordination and pre-writting skills. Our teachers guide children in doing planned colouring and paint activities.
Language Skills :
At this age Language Development is the most important area of focus. This is the area where even in the same age group there are some discrepancies.Some children are able to talk properly while some are still struggling with certain words and forming sentences. Our teachers work on language development through a lot of interactive Rhymes and Story sessions. We also encourage lot of group activities which involves a lot of verbal communication, so that the children learn from each other.
Cognitive Skills :
We introduce the concept of cognitive skills during the playschool stage. During this stage we finetune your child's cognitive skills. Our teachers through age appropriate educational toys, games and equipments, activity worksheets develop and nurture the cognitive skill in our Preschoolers. We introduce recognition of secondary colours, difference of rough and smooth surface, concept of space and quantity during this stage.
Social and Emotional Skills :
During this stage we focus on finer aspects of social skills like good manners and compatibility within a group.At this age the development of social and emotional behaviour depends a lot on language. The teachers facilitate in improving social skills and emotional devlopment by oraginising interactive games, simulating activities and group activities. Playing with friends, initiation to good manners like sharing and polite speaking, understanding routine are gently but firmly encouraged so that your child understands them as a way of life and thus follows them without feeling stressed.
Little learners
The nursery program takes in children at around three years of age when they are relatively autonomous and introduces them to a pre-school setting. The three year olds are full of wonder and spend a lot of time perfecting motor skills and enhancing their understanding of the world around them. Our teachers help them in embarking on this voyage of discovery to imbibe the right set of attitudes to becoming good self-learners. The focus of our teachers is to help the children develop in an all-round balanced way and acquire the knowledge and skills that will prepare them for succeeding in their school years and beyond.
All-round Development
Our nursery teachers facilitate the development of children by guiding them in a diverse set of learning activities across our science and language; dramatic play and music; outdoor play and arts centers:
Balanced Nutrition and Rest
Through the day, children are provided balanced and healthy meals to ensure they get the right nutrition to fuel their activities and growth. They also get adequate rest in the afternoons to help them remain energetic for our early evening activities. Our teachers also oversee their toilet schedules to minimize the chances of any accidental wetting.
Movement
Nursery children develop a very wide range of gross motor abilities to run, jump, kick and receive balls, pedal tricycles, climb up and down small slides, walk short distances on tip-toe, hop on one foot etc. They also develop finer hand and finger co-ordination and begin to draw basic shapes, dress themselves (with some help), wash hands and feed themselves (with some spilling). Our teachers encourage children under their nurturing care to develop this full range of movements and practice to gain fluency and to develop self-confidence.
Cognitive Development
Nursery children are very curious and ask a lot of what, why and who questions. We encourage this curiosity and provide a highly stimulating environment to satisfy their curiosities and develop their knowledge of colors, shapes, objects, animals, phenomenon etc. We also introduce them to counting and the alphabet, as they are now well able to recognize the connection of written and printed words to spoken language. We also provide them appropriate puzzles, blocks and games that help them sharpen their problem solving and analytical acumen.
Art
Imitation and role-play are a lot of fun for three year olds and we leverage this interest through dramatic play to enhance their understanding of various social and family roles. Art and music are also focused on and children participate in a lot of fun activities to enhance their aesthetic sensibilities.
Language Development
Nursery children are able to speak in simple 4-6 word sentences and begin carrying conversations. We encourage their language and verbal skills through interactive story telling, rhymes and picture book based story development. Alphabet as the building block of language is also introduced at this stage.
Emotional and Social Development
We encourage the development of cooperation and sharing among three year olds, although it is still difficult for them to play and share with other children for extended periods of time. We also help them learn to follow adult instructions and suggestions. In addition to the group activities, we also allow enough room for individual activities and down time which children utilize to be by them and to observe others. The Nursery program provides that caring yet firm foundation which becomes the bedrock for their life long journey as confident learners.
Special Programs
- Mom and Me
- Academic Assistance ( Grade 1 – Grade 8)
- ExtraCurricular Activities
- Brain Gym Classes
- Concentration and Focus
- Memory
- Academics: reading, writing, math, test taking
- Physical coordination
- Relationships
- Self-responsibility
- Organization skills
- Attitude
- Learning Disability Assistance
A program specially designed for mothers and kids to spend some quality time together by doing some creative activities, music and songs together. They develop and stronger bond with each other as well as become a little comfortable in foreign environment. Children also become socially independent when parents are around to make them feel safe and secure. They interact with their age children and also get comfortable in the school. If parents want they can decide to start the preschool or daycare after 2-3 months of starting this program as the child will be adjusted to the new place by that time.
Homework assistance and tutoring
After-school children spend about 2-5 hours in our daycare. we utilize that time in doing after-school activities as well as homework. Our teachers will help the kids finish their homework and in case they have some exams coming up they will help kids prepare for those as well. Extra help is given if a parent asks for a particular subject tutoring.
Learning disability assistance
Our partner Empowerkidz of USA help us understand the problem areas of a child. If a problem is detected in a child which we will do by testing the child, we will try to help the child by video chat with our US consultant on a weekly basis. To know more about this program please call us or visit us at our center.
Brain Gym® movements, exercises, or activities refer to the original 26 Brain Gym movements, sometimes abbreviated as the 26. These activities recall the movements naturally done during the first years of life when learning to coordinate the eyes, ears, hands, and whole body. The twenty-six activities, along with a program for “learning through movement” were developed by educator and reading specialist Paul E. Dennison and his wife and colleague, Gail E. Dennison who say that the interdependence of movement, cognition, and applied learning is the basis of their work. Clients, teachers, and students have been reporting for over 20 years on the effectiveness of these simple activities. Even though it is not clear yet "why" these movements work so well, they often bring about dramatic improvements in areas such as:
