Our Programs
We provide a toddler program for 15-35 months old children and a preschool program for 3-5 years old children.
Toddlers - Caterpillar Room
Caterpillars: 15-35 Months
Our teachers engage the Caterpillars in learning about the world around them and encourage their mental and physical development. Through professionally designed curriculum, they help the children build interest in learning and introduce them to life skills. Our toddlers will learn to vocalize sounds, count numbers, recognize pictures of familiar objects, dance with rhythm, put on a jacket and shoes, and acquire a variety of other skills.
Our bright, delightful Caterpillar Room is designed for toddlers to explore the world with their own interests and curiosity, build up their life skills, and develop good habits and routines.
Teachers work with each child in a series of stimulating activities that incorporate the natural routines of feeding and play.
Approaches to Learning
Social Emotional Development
Social Emotional Development
The Approaches to Learning domain incorporates emotional, behavioral, and cognitive self-regulation under a single umbrella to guide teaching practices that support the development of these skills. In infancy, self-regulation occurs within the context of consistent, responsive relationships. In the next few years, the child becomes a more active agent, though adults still provide
guidance.
Social Emotional Development
Social Emotional Development
Social Emotional Development
Social development refers to a child’s ability to create and sustain meaningful relationships with adults and other children. Infants and toddlers develop relationship-building skills and behaviors through their earliest interactions with important adults in their lives. Children who develop trusting relationships with adults are more able to fully explore and engage in the world around them.
Language & Communication
Social Emotional Development
Language & Communication
Toddlers learn to speak new words at an amazing pace and use language to express their needs, ask questions, and engage in short conversations.
Young children who are dual language learners (DLLs) may develop increased flexibility in thinking, working memory, and sustained attention when they learn different languages.
Cognition
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Language & Communication
Cognitive development includes reasoning, memory, problem- solving, and thinking skills that help young children understand and organize their world.
Toddlers also explore concepts through a variety of symbolic activities, such as drawing and pretend play.
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development
Perceptual, motor, and physical development is foundational to children’s learning in all areas because it permits children to fully explore and function in their environment. The use of perceptual information
is central to infants’ and toddlers’ interactions, exploration, and understanding of their experiences. It helps them to understand and direct their everyday experiences.
Morning
7:30-9:00
Welcome, hand washing, and self-exploring
8:40-9:00
Diaper change, bathroom, hand washing
9:00-9:30
Morning snacks
9:30-9:40
Morning Gathering: Little Leaders Time
9:40-10:00
Early Learning Station: group learning (early language and communication/cognitions and reasoning/art and creation/motor skills, etc)
10:00-10:20
Diaper change, bathroom, hand washing
10:20-11:15
Outdoor exploration in our beautiful spacious yard
11:15-11:30
Diaper Change, bathroom, hand washing
11:30-12:00
Enjoy our fresh, homemade lunch, and get ready for nap
12:00-2:30
Nap time
Afternoon
2:30-3:00
Wake up and diaper change, hand washing
3:00-3:30
Afternoon snacks
3:30-4:20
Outdoor recess and discovery time
4:20-4:40
Early Learning Station
4:40-5:00
Diaper change, bathroom, hand washing
5:00-6:00
Closing discovery time, pick up
Nutrition
Organic, Natural Food
We offer healthy, nutritious lunch and morning/afternoon snacks. We cook our lunch daily with organic meat, egg and milk, fresh fruit and vegetables. All lunch and snacks are under the guidance of NW Nutrition Service.