Little Learners Child Development Center

🌱✂️ Our Butterfly Classroom has been busy growing and learning!

The students planted grass at school and eagerly watched as it began to sprout and grow. Once the grass was established, it was sent home so they could continue practicing an important fine motor skill—using scissors safely and effectively!

By trimming their growing grass, students are strengthening hand muscles, improving coordination, and building confidence with cutting skills in a fun, hands-on way. We love seeing learning continue beyond the classroom walls!

Keep up the great work, Butterfly friends! We can’t wait to hear about your grass-cutting adventures at home. 💚🦋

Come Join Us! 🍎

We’re a play based program, meaning we get busy and messy! We meet developmental standards with our age appropriate practices & research based curriculums!

We’re known has a high quality program; being rated by New Jersey Grows for Kids & being NAEYC accredited! Our Progra

We’re a 12 month program, so we have fun all year round! We have spots available and tours every weeknight!

If Interested? Reach out!
Call us at 201-478-6106 or text us at 201-528-5059!

let's talk about pencil grasp development and FUNCTIONAL grasps: https://www.theottoolbox.com/pencil-grasp-development

Wishing a Special Mother’s Day to Our Ms Dawn! 💐

Today we celebrate not only an amazing director, but an incredible mother as well! 💐💖

Your love, patience, guidance, and dedication make Little Learners Child Development Center feel like a second home for so many children and families. Thank you for all that you do each and every day to lead with kindness and care.

Wishing you a beautiful Mother’s Day filled with love, joy, and appreciation — you deserve it all! 🌷

Happy Mother’s Day to all moms.

To the biological moms.
The stepmoms.
The foster moms.
The bereaved moms.
The adoptive moms.
And the chosen

Some moms are celebrating today.
Some are grieving today.
Some are simply trying to make it through the day.

But every mother deserves to be acknowledged.

Happy Mother’s Day to every kind of mom.

©️Momming On Empty

Happy Mother’s Day to all of our amazing moms, grandmothers, and mother figures! 💐💖

We loved celebrating you at our “Muffins with Mom” event on Friday and creating special memories together. Thank you for all the love, support, and care you give each and every day. Your little learners are so lucky to have you! 🧁✨

Wishing all of our families a beautiful and love-filled Mother’s Day! 🌷

Today is Child Care Provider Appreciation Day, and I just want to say something to the provider who is running on caffeine, cold coffee, little sleep, and pure love.

To the one who gets up before the sun to prepare for the day before anyone else even arrives…

To the one who wipes tears, noses, bottoms, tables, counters, and somehow still manages to comfort everyone else while ignoring her own exhaustion…

To the one who feels guilty when she takes a day off, stressed when a parent is unhappy, and wonders if she’s doing enough…

You are.

You are doing more than enough.

These children may never remember the crafts, the meals, the songs, or the toys. But they will remember the feeling of being safe with you. Loved by you. Comforted by you.

And parents are handing you the most precious thing in their entire world every single day because they trust you that deeply.

That matters.

Even on the hard days.
Even on the loud days.
Even on the days you end up sitting in silence after everyone leaves because you are completely touched out and emotionally drained.

What you do is important.
What you do is valuable.
And the love you pour into these children every day changes lives more than you probably realize.

So today, I hope you stop for just a second and realize how incredible you truly are.

Happy Child Care Provider Appreciation Day. ❤️

As an occupational therapist, I look at color learning as more than just an early academic milestone. The ability to recognize colors, name colors, and use colors is directly connected to how a child participates in everyday activities. And, we use these skills in every therapy session!

Think about a typical therapy session: pick up the green craft pom poms and sort them into the green cup. This is a visual perceptual skill and we use these multi-step directions as part of our skill therapy interventions.

Or, maybe we use the colors of the Alert program when working on self-regulation. Then, we use color directions to work on handwriting skills (stop at the red baseline on modified paper).

Learning, viewing, recognizing, and manipulating objects of different colors is a therapy intervention strategy and functional task. Here's more on these milestones and how to support this skill: https://www.theottoolbox.com/learning-colors/

When people talk about kindergarten readiness, academics tend to get all the attention 📚
But the skills kids truly need to succeed in the classroom start long before worksheets ✨

We are breaking down the foundational skills that support learning, participation, and independence—like:

🧘‍♀️ regulating emotions and calming the body
🔁 transitioning between activities
🚽🧼 using the bathroom and washing hands
🧥🥪 managing clothing and lunch containers
👂📋 attending, listening, and following directions
🤝⏳ sharing, waiting, and taking turns

These are the skills that help children function in a real classroom—and they grow through play, daily routines, and supportive experiences over time 🎯

Kindergarten readiness isn’t about being ahead.
It’s about being ready for the day 💛

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