Toddler Program
A toddler’s growing independence and desire for exploration demand an environment that is safe and rich in sensory activities and routines.
Our program offers toddlers the freedom to explore with purposeful guidance; our skillful teachers take each child’s lead, noticing interests and guiding children towards deeper and more purposeful play.
Daily experiences foster physical, sensory, social, emotional, and intellectual development.
Physical Care
Our toddler program begins to introduce your child to group structures and ensures that we meet your child’s individual needs by providing an adequate balance of activity and rest to adequately prepare your child for learning ahead. We provide nutritious meals and snacks to fuel your growing bundle of energy. We give children the time and guidance necessary to gain independence with self-help skills like hand washing and self-feeding.
Sensory Stimulation
Children roll up their sleeves and engage in finger paint, pour and splash their way through the water table, experiment with sand, and create masterpieces with playdough.
Motor Skills
Our children engage in activities such as painting, making music, solving puzzles, and building. We spend plenty of time climbing, running, and jumping.
Social-Emotional Skills
Core values such as kindness and curiosity are modeled through interactions with children and introduced through developmentally appropriate language. Teachers encourage the children to express what they are feeling, helping children recognize certain feelings by naming and describing. Teachers support children with clear limits and reminders of limits throughout the day.
Language Development
Our children begin to develop the habits and identities of emergent readers through well loved songs, read alouds, flannel board stories, and conversations. Our cozy reading nook surely isn’t the only place where children read and listen to stories! Our toddler teachers keep baskets of books relating to music, science, and dramatic play in different areas of the classroom. When children see and read books about food in the “kitchen,” for instance, they are learning that readers read for different purposes and that reading is a fun part of everything we do!