The toddler curriculum allows for the children to engage in various activities that help foster individual development skills as well as team work. The activities help foster positive self images
in the children.
Every toddler has their own personal space within the classroom (Cubbies), we also have a cozy area where the children can relax by themselves or with friends. In the morning when a child arrives they must put up there attendance picture.
The toddler classroom has various materials that reflect the diversity of the children. Including dolls, dress up clothing, toy foods, and puzzles. The materials are rotated throughout the month so the children can have various experiences.
The children have many opportunities to meet various members of the community, such as firefighters, dentist, chef and artist. We also try to provide various materials within the classroom environment (aprons, firefighter outfits, easels)
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Children have varied opportunities to engage in discussions about fairness, friendship, responsibility, authority, and differences.
The toddler staff always has various discussions with the children about fairness, friendship, responsibility, authority and differences. We also have a feelings chart that we discuss during circle time.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to learn about physical characteristics of their local environment as a foundation for learning geography.
Recently the children designed a garden outside the classroom. They created pictures of what they wanted the garden to look like.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to learn how people affect their environment in positive (e.g., recycling) and negative (e.g., polluting) ways.
We encourage the children to recycle in the classroom and to bring in materials from home, including paper towel rolls, newspaper, plastic bags, etc. We also use scrap paper often in the classroom.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that allow them to contribute to the well being of their classroom and the community, including care for the social and physical environments in which they live.
The children are also given jobs weekly, that include watering the plants, weather chart helper, line leader and helping with snack.
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Children are provided opportunities and materials that build a foundation for understanding economic concepts (e.g., playing restaurant, managing a store, and identifying and exchanging money.)
