Toddler Room

16 - 33 months

Toddler Daycare 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.

Our Toddler Program at Gaetz Child Care, Inc. aims to promote independence and social skills in a supportive environment. We focus on enhancing language development, encouraging exploration, and fostering positive interactions with peers. Through hands-on activities and structured routines, we help toddlers build confidence and essential motor skills while nurturing their curiosity and love for learning.

  • Developing Social Skills

    Significant attention is given to individual rights, taking turns, assisting and sharing with peers, resolving behavioral challenges, practicing good manners, refraining from interruptions, and cultivating appropriate table manners.

  • Self-Sufficiency

    Independence and self sufficiency are reinforced by encouraging and teaching our toddler’s how to do things by themselves. Skills that are emphasized include toileting, hand washing, and dressing without assistance.

  • 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.

  • Music Movement and Large Muscle Development

    Skill development activities, circle games, and movement exercises enhance large muscle growth in young children. Creative movements, like imitating nature and dancing, boost physical abilities and stimulate creativity. These structured activities encourage exploration of physical capabilities while enjoying movement.

  • Small Music 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.

  • 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.