Toddlers are very adventurous, curious and often fearless. At this stage, the child will begin to develop social skills that will help them to form their first friendships. We encourage our children in these areas by participating in fun group activities like singing, story time and cooperative play activities. We support their emerging language by using age-appropriate phrases and by encouraging the children’s use of the new words they are learning every day.

We are hard at work (and play), with language development, early literacy, dramatic play, pre-math and pre-science activities. We also work on social skills and outdoor and indoor gross motor skills. We promote letter and number recognition, and children have opportunities for writing and dictation daily. Children take responsibility for our classroom by participating in classroom jobs and clean-up. They learn important self-help skills each day, like hand-washing, putting shoes and jackets on, and helping with snack/lunchtime setup. Meal times are family style, allowing discussion and promoting both expressive and receptive language and vocabulary.

Our days are very busy as we engage in many activities. Pre-literacy exercises with journaling, picture/story dictation, fine motor skill development and practice, word recognition, reading, and language exposure. We play word games and participate in large group discussions, including reporting on the weather, weekend news, and show & tell. We work on matching and memory skills. There is also the opportunity for small group and one-to-one letter/number practice. We participate in science activities, including observation, experiments, and documentation; math-based work such as number recognition, matching, counting, graphing, and separating and introduce simple addition and subtraction methods.