Growing Sunflowers
(1 year to 2 years old)
Our Toddler Program fosters holistic development promoting social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematical skills through supportive interactions and engaging activities.
We encourage children regulate their emotions and behaviors, seeking comfort from trusted sources when needed and accepting guidance from adults. They demonstrate independence in meeting their own needs and exhibit confidence in their abilities.
Additionally, they establish positive relationships with both peers and adults, utilizing them as secure bases for exploration and handling separations without distress. Toddlers also display empathy towards others, respecting their emotions and forming meaningful connections through shared play and social interactions.
They actively participate in group situations, balancing their own needs with those of others and seeking adult assistance when resolving social conflicts.
Toddlers will learn to sustain balance during simple movement experiences and manipulate balls or similar objects with gross-motor manipulative skills, manipulating and exploring objects using fingers and whole-arm movements, gradually refining their finger and wrist movements.
Furthermore, they will practice using writing and drawing tools, initially grasping them and jabbing at paper, then progressing to gripping tools with the whole hand while possibly using whole arm movements to make marks.
Toddlers listen to and understand increasingly complex language, identifying familiar people, objects, and animals when prompted and following simple directions. They progressively use language to express their thoughts and needs, expanding their vocabulary by naming familiar people, animals, and objects.
They speak using words and word-like sounds that are understood by most familiar people, and begin to employ conventional grammar, initially with one- or two-word sentences or phrases and later with two- or three-word sentences or phrases, although they may omit or use some words incorrectly.
Children also start to narrate events making simple sentences about recent events, familiar people and objects that are not present and telling simple stories, albeit lacking many details. Toddlers also engage in appropriate conversational skills, initiating and attending to brief conversations and utilizing social rules of language, such as appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts.
Children attend and engage in tasks, sustaining their interest especially when guided by adults who offer suggestions, questions, and comments. They learn persistence by practicing activities repeatedly until successful and develop problem-solving skills by observing and imitating others or by seeking solutions and implementing them.
Showing curiosity and motivation, toddlers explore different ways to achieve goals and demonstrate flexibility and inventiveness in their thinking, often using creativity and imagination during play and routine tasks.
They begin to remember and connect experiences, recognizing and recalling familiar people, places, and objects, and making simple connections between objects and events. Toddlers also start to use classification skills, matching similar objects, and engage in symbolic thinking by recognizing people, objects, and animals in pictures.
Toddlers are encouraged to notice and discriminate rhymes by participating in rhyming songs and games, filling in missing rhyming words, and spontaneously generating them. They also develop an understanding of alliteration through singing songs and reciting rhymes with repeating initial sounds.
Moreover, they begin to demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet by identifying and naming letters, including those in their own name. They also show an appreciation for print and its uses, displaying interest in books and other texts, and understanding basic print concepts
Children begin to understand number concepts and operations by verbally counting up to 10 and accurately counting up to five objects, associating one number name with each object. They also demonstrate an understanding of quantities, recognizing and distinguishing between one, two, and more, and connecting numerals with their corresponding quantities.
Additionally, toddlers explore spatial relationships by following simple directions related to position and proximity, such as in, on, under, beside, and between. They also start to understand shapes, matching identical shapes and making simple comparisons between objects.
They also show interest in recognizing and describing simple patterns in everyday life, laying the groundwork for more complex mathematical concepts in the future.
We encourage children regulate their emotions and behaviors, seeking comfort from trusted sources when needed and accepting guidance from adults. They demonstrate independence in meeting their own needs and exhibit confidence in their abilities.
Additionally, they establish positive relationships with both peers and adults, utilizing them as secure bases for exploration and handling separations without distress. Toddlers also display empathy towards others, respecting their emotions and forming meaningful connections through shared play and social interactions.
They actively participate in group situations, balancing their own needs with those of others and seeking adult assistance when resolving social conflicts.
Toddlers will learn to sustain balance during simple movement experiences and manipulate balls or similar objects with gross-motor manipulative skills, manipulating and exploring objects using fingers and whole-arm movements, gradually refining their finger and wrist movements.
Furthermore, they will practice using writing and drawing tools, initially grasping them and jabbing at paper, then progressing to gripping tools with the whole hand while possibly using whole arm movements to make marks.
Toddlers listen to and understand increasingly complex language, identifying familiar people, objects, and animals when prompted and following simple directions. They progressively use language to express their thoughts and needs, expanding their vocabulary by naming familiar people, animals, and objects.
They speak using words and word-like sounds that are understood by most familiar people, and begin to employ conventional grammar, initially with one- or two-word sentences or phrases and later with two- or three-word sentences or phrases, although they may omit or use some words incorrectly.
Children also start to narrate events making simple sentences about recent events, familiar people and objects that are not present and telling simple stories, albeit lacking many details. Toddlers also engage in appropriate conversational skills, initiating and attending to brief conversations and utilizing social rules of language, such as appropriate eye contact, pauses, and simple verbal prompts.
Children attend and engage in tasks, sustaining their interest especially when guided by adults who offer suggestions, questions, and comments. They learn persistence by practicing activities repeatedly until successful and develop problem-solving skills by observing and imitating others or by seeking solutions and implementing them.
Showing curiosity and motivation, toddlers explore different ways to achieve goals and demonstrate flexibility and inventiveness in their thinking, often using creativity and imagination during play and routine tasks.
They begin to remember and connect experiences, recognizing and recalling familiar people, places, and objects, and making simple connections between objects and events. Toddlers also start to use classification skills, matching similar objects, and engage in symbolic thinking by recognizing people, objects, and animals in pictures.
Toddlers are encouraged to notice and discriminate rhymes by participating in rhyming songs and games, filling in missing rhyming words, and spontaneously generating them. They also develop an understanding of alliteration through singing songs and reciting rhymes with repeating initial sounds.
Moreover, they begin to demonstrate knowledge of the alphabet by identifying and naming letters, including those in their own name. They also show an appreciation for print and its uses, displaying interest in books and other texts, and understanding basic print concepts
Children begin to understand number concepts and operations by verbally counting up to 10 and accurately counting up to five objects, associating one number name with each object. They also demonstrate an understanding of quantities, recognizing and distinguishing between one, two, and more, and connecting numerals with their corresponding quantities.
Additionally, toddlers explore spatial relationships by following simple directions related to position and proximity, such as in, on, under, beside, and between. They also start to understand shapes, matching identical shapes and making simple comparisons between objects.
They also show interest in recognizing and describing simple patterns in everyday life, laying the groundwork for more complex mathematical concepts in the future.
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