Your Little Yellow Duck

Learns To Wiggle & Waddle In Their Home-Away-From-Home Environment

Infants (Yellow Ducks) | 6 Weeks - 15 Months | Serving Manhattan, IL

Personalized Care With An Extra Teacher In The Room

Your baby receives personalized, attentive care with an extra teacher in their classroom. Teachers use a schedule unique to your child’s progress, needs, nutritional guidelines and personality to offer high-quality, individualized care.

Highly Responsive Care Builds Strong Bonds With Your Baby

Responsive care gives your infant a sense of safety and security. When teachers respond quickly to your baby, it instills trust, encourages them to form secure attachments with their caregivers, and provides the foundation for future social-emotional development.

Daily Sensory Play Is The Best Way To Learn & Grow

Sensory play encourages your baby to learn through exploration, creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving. Loving teachers encourage your little one to use their senses to investigate their indoor and outdoor environment while singing, dancing, and storytime develop language and motor skills.

Matching Home Routines On Your Daily Schedule

Whether it’s time to play, nap, or feed, your baby relies on knowing what happens next to build security and emotional stability. Matching their routine at school to what they receive from you means you don’t have to start fresh at home.

A Strong Parent Partnership For Successful Early Learning

Success in the classroom begins with strong parent communication and involvement. Since you are your child’s first and most influential teacher, the more involved you are in their care and education, the less stress and anxiety your little yellow duck feels.

Teachers partner with you by offering:

An Ages & Stages Questionnaire so you and your child’s teachers can assess your child’s social-emotional and developmental milestones.
Bi-annual parent-teacher conferences allow you and their teachers to connect face-to-face in your baby’s early learning environment.
Help with finding services should observations or assessments present any delays or gaps that need addressing.

A Proud Illinois ExceleRate Silver Circle of Quality Center

You can trust in quality care and education and a deep commitment to excellence when it’s backed by the prestigious Illinois ExceleRate Silver Circle Of Quality Center award, not once, but for 9 years running!

Daily Explorations With Over An Acre Of Fun

Your little duck spends time familiarizing themselves with their outdoor surroundings every day with over an acre of fun exploration. Tummy time and crawling on the grass in a safe, fenced-in yard help them feel more comfortable in their natural environment.

Expect Daily Updates Straight From Your Baby’s Caregiver

Always know what your baby is up to with your handy free parent app! Continuous updates on naps, diaper changes, and feedings, and cute pictures, videos, activity updates, and classroom announcements ensure unmatched communication for long-lasting early learning success.

Jumpstart Language Skills With Daily Baby Signing

Your little one starts communicating right from infancy with daily baby signing. When they can share their wants and needs effectively, they quickly catch on to self-expression and build a strong foundation for learning.

FAQs

What are your operating hours?

We are open Monday through Friday from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., year-round.

What cleaning measures do you follow?

We have professional cleaners come in every day to ensure sparkling, germ-free spaces. Staff also sanitizes throughout the day, and we have air purifiers and electrostatic sprayers to eliminate any pesky microbes in the air or on hard-to-clean surfaces.

How do you keep children safe and secure?

All entrance doors require a coded fob for access, plus the yard is completely fenced. We also have internal-use security cameras throughout the center, and all staff members hold a current CPR certification.