Toddler
15 Months - 3 Years
At Kids World, we turn your child’s natural curiosity into positive learning experiences. We encourage and foster the toddler's natural drive to act independently, move freely, and exercise activities that help the child learn by doing. During these few years of life, the love of learning is established. Dr. Maria Montessori recognized these sensitivities in a toddler in the areas of independence, order, movement, and language as the key element in the child’s growth and development.
Our Toddler classroom is separated into two classrooms:
16 months - 2 years: 2 teachers for ten children
2 years - 3 years: 3 teachers for 15 children
“He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence.“
-Maria Montessori
Emotional
As your child grows, we help your child build upon their understanding of emotions and emotional competency. Encouraging them to recognize different emotions, express wants, and needs, and develop a sense of independence.
Social
During the toddler years, children begin the process of understanding and responding to social cues. They delve into parallel play and develop a concept of space. We then assist your child in navigating difficult conversations and finding words to express emotions.
Language
As a toddler, your child is going through an explosion of language and learning how to communicate. In our toddler community, they will develop speech-like patterns, learn and uses new vocabulary, understand the reciprocal aspect of speech, and learns how to verbalize their needs.
Cognitive
In our classroom, your child strengthens their attention span, begins to understand functional relationships, and learn essential qualities of the environment. They build their cognitive function by observing people and things from various perspectives and applying learned skills in new situations. They create the foundations for mathematical comprehension through early quantity and number concepts, including filling and emptying, putting in and taking out, taking things apart, and putting things back together. Finally, they identify familiar objects, build their active listening skills, and improve communication through gestures and language.
Physical
Toddlers need to move, and physical development is a large portion of our toddler curriculum. Our curriculum includes:
- Building their gross and fine motor skills.
- Understanding body awareness and control.
- Developing coordination, balance, flexibility, and stamina.
Music
Music and rhythm support children's language development and movement through rhymes, songs, beats, and new vocabulary, which are done both in English and in Spanish.
“To assist a child, we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.”
- Maria Montessori
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