Toddler Program

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, Pets, Insects, 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, 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.  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 classroom and outdoors. 

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.