Frequently Asked Questions 

We offer early education programs for children from 6 weeks through kindergarten age. Program availability and classroom placement may vary based on your child’s age, developmental readiness, center policies, classroom capacity, and current openings.

Our programs include:

The Learning Experience offers programs from infancy through kindergarten and uses the L.E.A.P.® curriculum to support age-appropriate intellectual, social, cognitive, and physical development.

Yes. Our Infant Care program serves babies from 6 weeks to 15 months. The program combines responsive caregiving with age-appropriate sensory exploration, movement, music, stories, language exposure, and nurturing relationships.

Infant care is built around individualized feeding, rest, diapering, comfort, and play routines. Because every baby develops on a different timeline, teachers provide experiences that support each child’s current needs and milestones.

Our Toddler Care program supports children as they become more mobile, verbal, independent, and socially aware. Toddlers learn through active play, songs, stories, sensory experiences, movement, art, outdoor exploration, teacher conversation, and predictable daily routines.

Children may build early vocabulary, listening skills, balance, coordination, self-help abilities, emotional expression, and confidence participating in classroom activities. The Learning Experience describes its toddler program as safe, curiosity-driven exploration that supports emerging language and motor skills.

Our Preschool Program for 3-Year-Olds helps children explore early literacy, vocabulary, letter awareness, number concepts, STEM discovery, art, music, movement, imaginative play, and friendship skills.

Three-year-olds also practice classroom routines, emotional expression, problem-solving, communication, and growing independence. Teachers use hands-on activities and purposeful play to make learning engaging and developmentally appropriate.

Two-year-olds learn through hands-on experiences, repetition, play, movement, and responsive teacher guidance. In our Twos Program, children may explore:

• Communication and early language development
• Songs, stories, rhymes, and early literacy experiences
• Colors, shapes, counting, matching, sorting, and patterns
• Music, movement, art, and imaginative play
• Fine-motor skills through crayons, blocks, puzzles, and manipulatives
• Gross-motor skills through outdoor play, dancing, climbing, and active games
• Friendship skills, turn-taking, sharing, and positive classroom behavior
• Early independence through clean-up, handwashing, mealtime, and transitions

The Learning Experience’s Twaddlers® curriculum is designed to help many 2-year-olds bridge toddlerhood and preschool through language, social play, routine-building, and motor-skill development.

Our Pre-K program helps four-year-olds build skills that support a successful kindergarten transition. Children strengthen early literacy, phonics, writing, math, science, problem-solving, social-emotional awareness, motor skills, classroom participation, and independence.

Pre-K children may practice following multi-step directions, participating in group lessons, completing classroom jobs, managing transitions, using materials responsibly, and expressing ideas with growing confidence. The Learning Experience’s preschool programs immerse children ages 3 to 5 in the L.E.A.P.® curriculum and character-based lessons intended to support kindergarten preparation.

The best program depends on your child’s age, developmental stage, classroom availability, family needs, and the center’s current enrollment guidelines. During a personal tour, our team can learn more about your child and explain the available program options.

We encourage parents to ask about age-based placement, classroom transitions, daily routines, enrollment timing, and whether a specific program currently has openings.

The curriculum is organized around four connected learning areas:

The Learning Experience describes L.E.A.P.® as a hands-on, whole-child curriculum that combines these areas to build intellectual, social, cognitive, and physical skills.

L.E.A.P.® stands for Learning Experience Academic Program. It is The Learning Experience’s proprietary curriculum framework, designed to support the whole child through academic, social, cognitive, and physical learning experiences.

Yes. STEM learning is incorporated through age-appropriate science, technology, engineering, and math experiences. Children may explore cause and effect, nature, weather, plants, building challenges, measuring, sorting, patterns, balancing, and simple experiments.

The goal is to help children practice curiosity, observation, prediction, problem-solving, collaboration, and persistence—not simply memorize facts.

Yes. Art, music, creative expression, movement, and physical play are important parts of the L.E.A.P.® approach. These activities can help children build creativity, confidence, language, coordination, fine-motor skills, gross-motor skills, and social connection.

The Learning Experience identifies music, art, STEM, cultural awareness, and physical development through structured activities and play as parts of L.E.A.P.®.

L.E.A.P.® blends purposeful play with teacher-guided instruction and age-appropriate academic experiences. Children learn through stories, conversation, music, art, building, movement, experiments, outdoor activities, sensory exploration, projects, games, and real-life classroom routines.

For young children, play is an important way to explore ideas, build language, develop motor skills, practice social interaction, and solve problems. The Learning Experience states that its curriculum encourages children to learn through exploration and hands-on experiences.

Children need opportunities to move, build coordination, explore, and release energy. Our programs incorporate age-appropriate active play, music and movement, physical development activities, and outdoor time when conditions and schedules allow.

Activities may include running, climbing, balancing, ball play, dancing, movement games, obstacle courses, and playground exploration. The L.E.A.P.® approach includes gross-motor development and physical play alongside academic and enrichment experiences.

Teachers help children build confidence, identify feelings, communicate needs, practice friendship skills, navigate simple conflicts, take turns, show empathy, and recover from everyday disappointments.

Social-emotional learning happens throughout the day—in group activities, play, transitions, meals, outdoor time, creative projects, and classroom routines. Teachers use patient, age-appropriate guidance to help children learn skills rather than expecting them to manage every new experience independently.

Potty-training readiness varies from child to child. Little Innovators supports children with positive, encouraging routines when they are developmentally ready and when classroom placement and center policies allow.

Families should speak with the school directly about current toileting procedures, requirements, communication practices, and how teachers coordinate with parents for consistency between home and school.

Young children are still learning how to express emotions, wait, share, manage frustration, and solve problems. Teachers use calm, consistent, age-appropriate guidance to support children through challenging moments.

Depending on the situation, teachers may help a child name a feeling, use words or gestures to communicate, take a brief calming pause, make a safe choice, practice taking turns, or work toward a simple solution with support.

For example, if two children want the same toy, a teacher may acknowledge both children’s feelings, explain whose turn it is, offer another option, and help the waiting child understand what will happen next.

Family communication is an important part of quality early education. Teachers and center staff share relevant information about your child’s day, routines, care needs, activities, and progress according to current center procedures.

The specific format, technology, frequency, and type of updates may vary by classroom and location. During your tour, ask our team how daily reports, classroom updates, milestone communication, and family conferences work at Little Innovators.

The Learning Experience notes that its centers offer parent communication tools and daily updates, although availability and center-level practices can vary.