Life Long Learners 212 is a full-day child care center in Downers Grove serving infants through pre-kindergarten across multiple age-specific classrooms.
Life Long Learners 212 is a neighborhood child care center that serves infants through pre-kindergarten in age-specific classrooms. The Curtiss Street location is described as having eight classrooms, each aligned to developmental milestones for its age group.
The program uses a play-based approach with a Reggio-inspired emphasis in the preschool years, incorporating all five senses, loose parts and outdoor learning. Instructional goals include early academic skills for school readiness plus social and emotional development, self-regulation, and independence. The program introduces activities such as basic sign language for infants, music, books, science experiments, classroom jobs and opportunities for problem solving.
Leadership and teaching staff include individuals with formal education and credentials in early childhood education and Illinois early childhood/ director qualifications. The center lists multiple on-site roles covering infant, toddler and preschool teams and leadership focused on quality and training.
Infant program emphasizes sensory exploration, cuddling and milestone support, with exposure to books, music and basic sign language and routine updates provided to families via the Brightwheel app.
Toddlers learn through purposeful, hands-on play and begin participating in organized group activities such as music, story time and arts and crafts while teachers focus on social-emotional skills and vocabulary growth.
Days are more structured to prepare children for preschool; teachers support potty training, fine motor development, early literacy and numeracy concepts, and social skills.
A play-based, Reggio-inspired preschool that uses sensory, loose parts and outdoor learning to build academic skills, confidence, independence and social-emotional competence; activities include science experiments, caring for a class pet and environmental projects such as recycling and gardening.
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