Sensorial activities in the classroom respond to a toddlers’ urge to use all of his senses to explore everything around him. The toddler program also appropriately accommodates the very young child’s sensitive period for language by offering creative and intriguing concepts to expand their growing vocabularies. Joining conversations, listening to stories, classifying objects and learning songs and poems all nurture their budding language skills. To help smooth their initial social interactions, the toddlers also learn to use words for the feelings they experience in themselves and others.

    Many of the activities in the toddler program highlight the practical life skills that lead to independence. Our teachers  gently urge the children to hang up their own coats, put away their lunchboxes, and to problem-solve rather than say “I can’t.” Since this is an age of very strong imitation, the teachers constantly model appropriate social skills, good manners and consideration for others. Through music and movement and freedom of choice, the toddlers have access to a variety of large muscle activities that offer them opportunities to jump, balance, crawl or skip. These exercises as well as creative art activities, are offered for each child to choose. This freedom in a safe space is crucial to the toddler program. However it is always tempered by two important limits that will be beneficial for a lifetime – respect for others and respect for the environment.