Class Size:16
Child/Teacher Ratio: 1:8
Staff: Morning Teacher, Lead Teacher, Afternoon Teacher
Our Toddlers program includes a weekly theme, and age appropriate activities to reinforce children's interests. Children at this age are actively seeking to acquire new language skills, so all activities include simple vocabulary and songs or chants with familiar tunes to use with them to promote language development. This room uses activities that promote independence, and build self esteem such as toilet training, mealtimes, and individual hand washing. Learning centers are used in this room to provide opportunities for hands-on reinforcement of concepts and skills that have been introduced in a whole group setting. Because young children learn best through active exploration, and concrete experience, these centers are very important for each individual's growth.
Other areas in the school that are available to the children is the indoor gymnasium, theater room, and covered play area outside.
The toddlers room is a classroom where children learn through love, physical interaction, positive affirmations, and the good example that their professional caregivers set.
Schedule
| 6:30-7:15 |
Welcome Time / Free Time |
| 7:15-8:25 |
Breakfast Snack |
| 8:30-9:00 |
Circle Time / Diapers |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Art |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Inside Gym or Outside |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Learning Centers |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Cognitive Activities |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Language |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Lunch |
| 12:00-2:30 |
Nap Time |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Diapers / Movement |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Snack time |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Outside Play or Centers |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Diapers / Music |
| 4:30-5:15 |
Centers |
| 5:15-6:00 |
Quiet Activities / Good-byes | |
Toddler's Can...
- Throw a ball
- Try to walk up or down stairs
- Show many emotions
- Enjoy nusery rhymes, songs, and fingerplays
- Chew food well
- Zip and unzip easy zippers
- Copy housework
- Point to up to five body parts
- Feel frustrated easily
- Use play dough, paint, and paper
- Use a small riding toy without pedals
- Turn familiar pictures right side up
- Use his or her own name
- Walk on a wide balance board
- Wash and dry hands with help
- Listen to a short story
- String large beads
- Say two-word sentences
- Unwrap packages, or peel a banana, once started
- Use words that tell what people or things do
- Use words that tell about people and things
- Match sounds to animals
- Run fast
- Recognize self in photograph
- Try to comfort others
- Turn one page at a time
- Try to copy folding
- Enjoy water and sand play
- Do a one-to-three piece puzzle or form board
- Match pictures to real things
- Copy four words you say
- Try to jump in place
- Sing some words to songs
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