The toddler’s curriculum is centered around play. We believe that young children learn through hands on experience nd participation so we provide as many opportunities as possible for toddlers to select, explore, and practice skills through a variety of materials and prepared activities. Through play, your child will learn to develop problem solving skills, social skills, and communication skills. We will also be working to develop and enhance language skills and self-help skills. The toddlers’ environment is both organized and flexible to accommodate their needs. Our goal is to balance active/quiet, individual/group, and child selected/teacher directed activities to provide opportunities for physical,
emotional, social, and intellectual development. We will achieve our objective by including all of the following:

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Physical Development
1. Large motor - encouraging movement through a variety of activities both indoors and out such as climbing, running, jumping, swinging, playing ball and other group activities
2. Small motor - activities that encourage hand eye coordination such as stringing beads, cutting, pasting, and block building
3. Balance - provide creative movements, obstacles and group activities that encourage balance
4. Eye-hand coordination- encourage children to use toys, books, and tools

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Emotional Development
1. Independence - providing choices, encouraging self motivation, and self help skills
2. Self Esteem - positive reinforcement and encouraging self-exploration through sharing of feelings, stories, and dramatic play. Creating self confidence by encouraging toddlers to do various items by themselves

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Social Development
1. Interactive skills - group activities both large and small, games, stories, music, dance and show & tell.
2. Behavioral skills - We will encourage good habits while discouraging bad ones. At this age children cannot yet mediate themselves, therefore separation and redirection during disagreements and over activity will be enforced.
3. Basic Routine- We will work on following the same pattern on a daily basis.

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Intellectual Development
1. Language - encouraging speech, conversations, show & tell, story telling and reading.
2. Cognitive - exploring nature, shapes and colors, books, puzzles, and matching games.
3. Creative - music activities, art and dramatic play.
4. Personal Growth - identify basic body parts and what each can do
5. Reading Readiness - encourage eye movement from left to right.