Toddlers

Toddler Program - ages 18 - 36 months

Plenty of natural light and accessible materials invite children to explore and play in the toddler room. An expansive outdoor environment including an enclosed area provides novel experiences each and every day.

Toddlers engage in play, songs, storytelling and spontaneous conversation to explore, grow, and learn about themselves and the world around them. Through play and interacting with their environment toddlers create schemas (understandings) with which to make sense of their world.

This is a time for development across all areas including:

• gross motor skills such as walking, running and climbing
• fine motor skills such as feeding themselves; using crayons and thick pencils
• sensory development in the areas of sight, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling
• language skills such as single words, phrases, then sentences
• Social / emotional skills such as playing along side others, turn taking, and pretend play