Toddler Curriculum

The main areas of curriculum and activity at the toddler level are as follows:

·        Practical life and daily living skills

·        Sense awareness

·        Language development

·        Movement

·        Art and music

In practical life they will experience real life situations and activities promoting dressing and undressing, grooming and toilet training, carrying things, cleaning and grace and courtesy.  Sense awareness is learning about dimensions, shapes, colours, tactile, auditory, taste and smell.  Primary language development is the acquisition of the language connected to

their observations and sense training.  There are also stories and singing and conversation and dialogues as well as special materials for more abstract vocabulary.  One of the major differences in a Montessori toddler class is that the children are free to move around at will, carrying objects, walking in line and taking long walks outside.  In art, children can freely choose coloring, gluing, painting or clay.  We listen to music of all varieties to help children develop an ear for music as well as more formal instruction or rhymes and moving to music.

The toddler curriculum is directed by a certified early childhood educator as well as a certified early childhood assistant.  Both have been trained in basic practical life and sensorial Montessori materials and activities.