(Age One & Walking Through Three & Potty-Trained)
Our terrific toddlers are busy all day long. Our energetic teachers and small group atmosphere is an ideal environment for your child to grow and learn. Toddlers are beginning to think about their actions, solve problems and understand language. During the school day, your child will engage in activities such as jumping, rolling, walking and waving. Teachers will introduce concepts such as sharing, talking, self-discipline and simple table manners. We will also provide your child with a variety of cognitive concepts. Your toddler will be introduced to colors, numbers, shapes, as well as letters and pre-emergent phonetic sounds using the Whole Language approach. Your toddler is welcome to learn with us!
Sense of Self
- Expressing initiative
- Distinguish “me” from others
- Solving problems encountered in exploration and play
- Doing things for themselves
Social Relations
- Forming attachment to a primary caregiver
- Building relationships with other adults
- Building relationships with peers
- Expressing emotions
- Showing empathy toward the feelings and needs of others
- Developing social play
Creative Representation
- Imitating and pretending
- Exploring building and art materials
- Responding to and identifying pictures and photographs
Movement
- Moving parts of the body (head-turning, grasping, kicking)
- Moving the whole body (rolling, crawling, cruising, walking, running, balancing)
- Moving with objects
- Feeling and expressing steady beat
Music
- Listening to music
- Responding to music
- Exploring and imitating sounds
- Exploring vocal pitch sounds
Communication and Language
- Listening and responding
- Communicating nonverbally
- Participating in communication give-and-take
- Communicating verbally
- Exploring picture books and magazines
- Enjoying stories, rhymes, and songs
Exploring Objects
- Exploring objects with the hands, feet, mouth, eyes, ears and nose
- Discovering object permanence
- Exploring and noticing how things are the same or different
Early Quantity and Number
- Experiencing “more”
- Experiencing one-to-one correspondence
- Exploring the number of things
Space
- Exploring and noticing location of objects
- Observing people and things from various perspectives
- Filling and emptying, putting in and taking out
- Taking things apart and fitting them together
Time
- Anticipating familiar events
- Noticing the beginning and ending of a time interval
- Experiencing “fast” and “slow”
- Repeating an action to make something happen again, experiencing cause and effect
