Young Toddler Program

Lots of fun, active and educational activities in our toddler early learning program to keep those little "busy bodies" engaged, and to get them excited about learning!

Since we enroll only up to three toddlers (only three children under two years of age are enrolled), each toddler has a generous amount of one-on-one time with the teacher to be loved, cared for, and to help them feel special!

Our Educational & Developmental Goals for Our Young Toddlers

While each child has his or her own unique talents and limitations, this is a list of typical goals for our children who are between the ages of one and two.

Social Development

To foster feelings of competence

provide toys and activities that encourage them to play alone

provide opportunities for imitation

provide prompt return responses

respond to their various emotional moods, and help them to control them in a positive way

give support when they try to do things on their own

play music, songs, and action rhymes with many body motions that they can perform

give them a chance to achieve a new developmental step, a sense of ownership

To develop positive, self-help skills and foster independence

to learn how, when and why they should wash their hands, and chances to dress themselves

to be allowed to use the spoon and cup for themselves at meals

to be encouraged to pick up toys after they have finished playing with them

Cognitive Development

To enhance language development

provide many books and magazines with large and colorful pictures

more opportunities to play seek and find

encourage "give and take" games

more opportunities to find things that disappear

help in learning the parts of their body

much practice with various shapes

provide opportunities for them to learn how to do things in a certain order

practice in going to get the toys and other things that they want or need

Begin and understand how to use language

provide courteous responses to their efforts at polite speech

patiently and correctly answer all of their questions

opportunities to try to understand the meaning of longer and harder sentences

verbally label objects for them to imitate

provide much practice in naming objectives

Physical Development

To enhance small motor skills

provide opportunities to practice drinking with a filled cup

provide paper and brightly colored crayons to use

provide books that are colorful and attractive to them

provide interesting objects to help their eye-hand coordination, and to give them quiet time

many manipulative toys and experiences to practice new and refine existing motor skills

opportunities to play with clay, play dough, large bead items to strings, etc.

To enhance large motor skills

to provide opportunities to practice walking, dancing, marching, running, develop casting and overhand throwing, for pounding

find and explore things in the environment, kick and throw balls, climb up and down stairs and other obstacle