TODDLER PROGRAM

The toddler years are truly amazing. They are filled with magical discoveries, developmental achievements, and strides in independence and a multitude of challenges. The toddler staff is dedicated to ensuring that not only your child’s needs are met in a stimulating and developmentally appropriate environment, but also to helping parents embrace and savor the wonderful adventures that their toddler will lead them on.

Environment

The toddler classroom is set up to meet the developmental needs of the children and to provide them the opportunity to make choices. They contain four learning zones:

Gross Motor: This area encourages children to use their large muscles through climbing, block play, music and movement.

Dramatic Play: This area encourages children to engage in role playing activities with the use of props.

Quiet: This area allows children a space to retreat to for some quiet time and encourages children to develop language/literacy skills through the use of books and soft toys and develop fine motor coordination with the use of manipulatives.

Messy: This area encourages children to express themselves and be creative through art and to heighten their sensory awareness through a variety of sensory oriented activities.

Curriculum

The Toddler Program incorporates Developmentally Appropriate Practices as set forth The National Association for the Education of Young Children. The curriculum and activities implemented by the teaching staff reflects the developmental needs and upcoming milestones of the particular children in each group. Most of the activities will be hands on enabling the children the opportunity to explore the world around them in a secure and safe environment.