Toddler Care

When your infant begins to roll, crawl, and toddle, their perspective of the world around them changes and expands. The mind continues to absorb in the toddler years meaning it’s so important to build curiosity and focus on these emerging interests and skills as customized by their teachers' observations. Since toddlers crave freedom, the environment is prepared to maximize child desires by fostering self-care through providing child-sized furniture and age-appropriate whenever-available learning materials. A vast number of daily activities, where children may opt to learn individually or in groups, help children gain a sense of confidence in their competence. Within this language-rich environment, the child is spoken to as an adult with compassion and respect and encouraged to explore picture books, and vocabulary cards, and participate in books read aloud to the child. Alongside basic language skills, problem-solving, visual discrimination, physical coordination, and concentration are woven into the daily routines with more focus in areas for children that have been observed to need more focus in a particular area.

Further learning in these areas includes self-care (washing, dressing, toileting, and eating, according to each child’s individual capacity), care of the environment (cleaning, food preparation, and food service; plant care and animal care), large-motor activities (walking, climbing, running, jumping, balancing, climbing steps, etc.), fine-motor skills (reaching, grasping, picking up objects, transferring objects, using tools and utensils, doing artwork), language (naming objects, describing actions and intentions, discussing pictures, conversation, music, and singing) and social skills (developing manners through interactions with peers, teachers, and adult-led small group games).