Young toddlers sometimes need to feel a close connection to feel secure in order to be open to exploring. Our teachers will offer the caring and trusting environment to help guide them through this process. The teachers offer encouraging and positive motivation to help them persist through challenges and becoming self-motivated.

Offering our young toddlers a safe environment which promotes walking and climbing ensures the children will build confidence in their physical growth and abilities. Our teachers do this through a combination of support and attention for encouragement. The teachers will create climbing courses, set up games, and do activities to promote balancing, and spatial and traveling awareness.

Young toddlers are just learning how to get their needs met. Our teachers reinforce the positive ways of getting attention and develop an encouraging environment to understand the connection between language and having their needs met. Our teachers will often be seen role-playing and modeling. We also provide the children with many opportunities to help others which supports their understanding of meeting others’ needs.

At this stage of development, young toddlers are learning to focus their attention for short periods of time. Engaging the children is the best way to help a child remain focused. Our teachers accomplish this by reading books, telling stories, singing songs, and incorporating movement or actions. Young toddlers tend to be persistent as well. The children will be seen participating in activities such as stacking, building, puzzles, and matching to promote problem solving, flexibility and inventiveness in thinking.

You will find many richly illustrated books in our classrooms as well as many opportunities to explore through coloring and writing. Young toddlers best connect and explore reading through pictures of familiar objects and people, print and books. Teachers will read and reread books to help reinforce the use of language as a child explores the book. Teachers will also start to give the children specific tasks with paper and writing to support intention with writing.

Young toddlers begin to understand cause and effect and discover that repeated actions yield similar effects. Finding new ways to encourage the children to count and problem solve encourages math concepts. It also teaches the many different ways math skills are used throughout the day. You will find our teachers exploring collections, playing Hide and Seek, solving puzzles, and doing sequencing activities.