Toddlers
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Toddler Curriculum
Early experiences provide a foundation for later development and Little Learners
Educational Center is dedicated to providing an interactive environment in which toddlers
can explore their world in their own unique way. Toddlers want to touch, taste, smell,
listen to and look at everything. Toddlers also need spaces to explore alone as well as
with others and Little Learners provide small spaces for them to rest and recharge their
batteries. During the year your toddler will explore a variety of topics, which include All
About Me, Fall, My Family, Winter, Snow, Pets, Bugs, or Flowers. Different topics will be
explored each month. Teachers will use music, finger-plays, art, books, and physical
activities related to these topics to promote language, physical, social, emotional, and
cognitive development. The teachers interact with the children in a manner that
communicates that each child is uniquely special. They will learn during this year that
they are not helpless but that they are competent people and are respected for their
abilities.
Little Learners firmly believes that toddlers grow and develop best in a loving homelike
environment. Every toddler has a caregiver who is responsible for the physical, social
and emotional development of the infant. The main caregiver is responsible for feeding,
diapering, and planning activities for the toddler to encourage development. She is also
responsible for communicating with parents through phone calls, daily sheets, emails,
and photographs. A toddlers daily activities might include: being read to or looking at
books, exploring the water table, joining classmates in simple finger plays and songs, as
well as large muscle activities in the gym and outdoors.
Parents provide information to teachers about a toddlers evening and morning routines
on a daily sheet when they arrive in the morning. This allows teachers to plan a toddler’s
daily routine, which she will also document on the daily sheet and parents will receive at
the end of the day.
Toddlers often have less of an appetite then during infancy. Toddlers might refuse
foods they have previously enjoyed or insist on the same foods at every meal. Little
Learners encourage toddlers to try new foods, but the focus is to maintain a peaceful
and relaxed meal. Parents will receive information about how well toddlers eat on daily
sheets.
Toddlers require 2 or more hours of sleep during the day and without it, they may be
irritable and unable to join in afternoon activities. Toddlers who have a good nap in the
afternoon will sleep better at night as well. Toddlers nap on toddler cots after lunch.
Teachers will lower the lights and play quiet, relaxing music as they prepare for naptime.
Parents will receive information about how well toddlers slept on daily sheets.
Early experiences provide a foundation for later development and Little Learners
Educational Center is dedicated to providing an interactive environment in which toddlers
can explore their world in their own unique way. Toddlers want to touch, taste, smell,
listen to and look at everything. Toddlers also need spaces to explore alone as well as
with others and Little Learners provide small spaces for them to rest and recharge their
batteries. During the year your toddler will explore a variety of topics, which include All
About Me, Fall, My Family, Winter, Snow, Pets, Bugs, or Flowers. Different topics will be
explored each month. Teachers will use music, finger-plays, art, books, and physical
activities related to these topics to promote language, physical, social, emotional, and
cognitive development. The teachers interact with the children in a manner that
communicates that each child is uniquely special. They will learn during this year that
they are not helpless but that they are competent people and are respected for their
abilities.
Educational Center is dedicated to providing an interactive environment in which toddlers
can explore their world in their own unique way. Toddlers want to touch, taste, smell,
listen to and look at everything. Toddlers also need spaces to explore alone as well as
with others and Little Learners provide small spaces for them to rest and recharge their
batteries. During the year your toddler will explore a variety of topics, which include All
About Me, Fall, My Family, Winter, Snow, Pets, Bugs, or Flowers. Different topics will be
explored each month. Teachers will use music, finger-plays, art, books, and physical
activities related to these topics to promote language, physical, social, emotional, and
cognitive development. The teachers interact with the children in a manner that
communicates that each child is uniquely special. They will learn during this year that
they are not helpless but that they are competent people and are respected for their
abilities.
Little Learners firmly believes that toddlers grow and develop best in a loving homelike
environment. Every toddler has a caregiver who is responsible for the physical, social
and emotional development of the infant. The main caregiver is responsible for feeding,
diapering, and planning activities for the toddler to encourage development. She is also
responsible for communicating with parents through phone calls, daily sheets, emails,
and photographs. A toddlers daily activities might include: being read to or looking at
books, exploring the water table, joining classmates in simple finger plays and songs, as
well as large muscle activities in the gym and outdoors.
Parents provide information to teachers about a toddlers evening and morning routines
on a daily sheet when they arrive in the morning. This allows teachers to plan a toddler’s
daily routine, which she will also document on the daily sheet and parents will receive at
the end of the day.
Toddlers often have less of an appetite then during infancy. Toddlers might refuse
foods they have previously enjoyed or insist on the same foods at every meal. Little
Learners encourage toddlers to try new foods, but the focus is to maintain a peaceful
and relaxed meal. Parents will receive information about how well toddlers eat on daily
sheets.
Toddlers require 2 or more hours of sleep during the day and without it, they may be
irritable and unable to join in afternoon activities. Toddlers who have a good nap in the
afternoon will sleep better at night as well. Toddlers nap on toddler cots after lunch.
Teachers will lower the lights and play quiet, relaxing music as they prepare for naptime.
Parents will receive information about how well toddlers slept on daily sheets.
Early experiences provide a foundation for later development and Little Learners
Educational Center is dedicated to providing an interactive environment in which toddlers
can explore their world in their own unique way. Toddlers want to touch, taste, smell,
listen to and look at everything. Toddlers also need spaces to explore alone as well as
with others and Little Learners provide small spaces for them to rest and recharge their
batteries. During the year your toddler will explore a variety of topics, which include All
About Me, Fall, My Family, Winter, Snow, Pets, Bugs, or Flowers. Different topics will be
explored each month. Teachers will use music, finger-plays, art, books, and physical
activities related to these topics to promote language, physical, social, emotional, and
cognitive development. The teachers interact with the children in a manner that
communicates that each child is uniquely special. They will learn during this year that
they are not helpless but that they are competent people and are respected for their
abilities.
