Toddler Room
16 months - 33 months
Toddler Program
The toddler’s creativity, imagination, need for exploration and manipulation, awakening social skills, attention span and need for language development activities guides the curriculum for this group. Inherent throughout our program are the goals of developing self confidence and a good self image. We strive for a balance between quiet, active, structured and unstructured activities.
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Developing Social Skills
Much emphasis is place on the rights of individuals, waiting turns, helping and sharing with each other, solving behavior problems, good manners, not interrupting, and developing appropriate table habits.
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Self-Sufficiency
Independence and self sufficiency is reinforced by encouraging and teaching our toddler’s how to do things by themselves. Things that are emphasized are toileting, hand washing, and dressing without assistance.
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Developing Imagination
Toddler’s role play with dress up clothes. We use environment changes, special interest corners such as kitchen and dolls, to help encourage creative play.
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Music Movement and Large Muscle Development
Use of skill development activities, circle games, and basic movement. Creative movement activities such as moving like things in nature and dancing to music.
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Small Muscle Development and Manipulative Toys
Encouraging learning through investigation and concrete experiences. Examples include, but are not limited to, simple to difficult puzzles, matching games, classification games, counting pieces, beading, sorting games, and play dough.
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Cognitive Goals
Colors, rhyming songs, finger plays, matching, counting to ten, classifying, two-part sequences, name recognition, language development, knowing body parts and directional terms.