Toddler Day Care & Early Education (1 - 2 Years)
When your child is all over the place, they are discovering their world. Toddlers learn best in safe, loving places where they can explore, in their own way. The activities for this age group are built around toddlers’ limitless curiosity and their natural desire to push boundaries.
Inside your toddler's day
During their time with us, your child will learn to count, discover writing and music. He/she will start building toward following simple instructions, writing and the potty.
Your toddler's developmental areas
- Use one or two words to label objects and express needs and wants
- Build an understanding of words through interactions including reading books
- Imitate reading behaviour like turning pages and babbling while looking at pictures
- Explore writing with scribbles on paper
- Remember the location of objects like a specific toy
- Follow simple rules some of the time
- Watch and imitate how others use objects or complete tasks
- Control impulses some of the time
- Show increased interest in interacting with familiar adults
- Show increased interest in interacting with other children
- Manage emotions independently or with the help of a familiar adult
- Notice when other children are upset and try to help them feel better
- Learn to walk and start to run
- Play games that develop throwing and kicking skills
- Show an increasing ability to control their hands
- Start to communicate at mealtime using simple words
- Show interest in counting and start to identify one, two, or three objects
- Learn words like up and down and differences in size and volume
- Sort and classify objects like helping a teacher make piles of different coloured toys
- Explore cause and effect by discovering new ways to play with toys
- Create art using materials like crayons and clay
- Move creatively with other kids to learn body awareness and build social skills
- Enter the world of make believe with simple props like toy phones and puppets
- Interact with music through games and simple songs