Toddler Program
To promote emotional growth by: :
- Building self-confidence and a sense of self-growth by allowing choices within limits and building on successes.
- Providing a warm, loving, accepting environment for each child to work and play in.
- Opportunities to help each child identify personal feelings and the feelings of others.
- Encouraging a curiosity and a sense of wonder with an emphasis on self motivation.
- Assisting in the development of self-discipline in each child.
- Providing appropriate alternatives to angry and aggressive behavior and strengthening inner emotional controls.
To Promote Social Growth By:
- Providing appropriate alternatives to angry and aggressive behavior and strengthening inner emotional controls.
- Aiding in the development of problem solving skills.
- Encouraging individual decision making power so that each child feels a sense of control over their own lives.
- Providing staff/child interactions which are warm, nurturing and compassionate.
- Opportunities for each child to interact with a diversity of children.
To Promote Intellectual Growth Through:
- Sparking excitement in children about the opportunity to learn.
- Encouraging children to seek knowledge in areas where the child is interested.
- Providing an atmosphere where children discover and explore; teaching independence through learning how and where to find solutions
To Promote Physical/motor Development By:
- Teaching each child to use their body in a variety of active ways by participating in large motor activities, both indoors and outdoors.
- Promoting physical growth and competence at each child’s developmental level.
- Meeting each child’s nutritional needs through well-balanced meals and snacks.
- A daily rest of nap.