Montessori Exploration Within Boundaries, Curiosity Tempered By Safety, And Building Confidence, Knowing We'll Catch Them If They Fall.
Our Mixed Age Toddler Class Allows Your Child To Grow, Explore, and Discover The World Under Our Watchful Eyes And Full Support.
Montessori Is Exploration Within Boundaries, Curiosity Tempered By Safety, And Building Confidence, Knowing We'll Catch Them If They Fall.
TODDLER CHILD CARE PROGRAM | 18 MONTHS TO 3 YEARS | Monday - Friday 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Montessori is based on the principle of free choice and purposeful activity or “Freedom within limits”.The classroom is set up with five main areas of interest: Practical Life, Sensorial, Math, Language and Cultural and children are allowed to freely choose activities within the classroom. All of the activities have built in control of error parameters so that the child can understand why the material may not be working. All of the activities focus on: Order, Concentration, Co-operation and Independence. We also work with our parents to potty train their child at this level!
A toddler class begins the educational learning process during the ages of 18 months to 3 years. Our toddler ratio is 1:6 for children aged 18 months to 3 years old.
ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENCE
Many of the activities in the toddler program highlight the self-help skills that lead to independence. We focus on skills like learning to dress ourselves, cleaning up after ourselves and making new friends!
ENCOURAGING INDEPENDENCE
Many of the activities in the toddler program highlight the self-help skills that lead to independence. We focus on skills like learning to dress ourselves, cleaning up after ourselves and making new friends!
"PRACTICAL LIFE" AREA FOR PRACTICING MOTOR CONTROL
Our Montessori Toddler Room has a Practical Life Area where children acquire the sense of order and concentration to perform everyday tasks that help them achieve one of the greatest goals for toddlers: INDEPENDENCE!
Children are expected to hang up their own coats, put away their shoes, and to problem-solve on their own.
"PRACTICAL LIFE" AREA FOR PRACTICING MOTOR CONTROL
Our Montessori Toddler Room has a Practical Life Area where children acquire the sense of order and concentration to perform everyday tasks that help them achieve one of the greatest goals for toddlers: INDEPENDENCE!
Children are expected to hang up their own coats, put away their shoes, and to problem-solve on their own.
ACCREDITED TEACHERS
All of our Montessori teachers are certified or enrolled in a MACTE accredited training program or completing an internship and are passionate about helping your children learn and grow.
ACCREDITED TEACHERS
We do extensive Criminal Reference checks and Background checks on all of our team members.
Our program is 5 days per week, Monday – Friday. Recognizing the community’s need for extended hours, we are open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Our Preschool program runs as follows:
Infant: 6 weeks-18 months
Toddler: 18 months-3 years
Primary: 3 years – Kindergarten (Child must be potty trained)
School Day: 8:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Full Time: 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
This is a fair question, and it deserves careful consideration. The following article, Why Montessori for the Kindergarten Year, written by Tim Seldin with Dr. Elizabeth Coe offers an excellent answer.
The Montessori teacher (commonly known as a Directress) carefully plans and prepares the environment in the interest of the children. She facilitates the classroom activity and helps guide the children in a progression from one activity to the next. She is trained to work with each child individually, allowing the child to choose from many activities within their range of ability. She observes while the children are working and allows them the satisfaction of their own discovery.
Montessori is based on the principle of free choice of purposeful activity. If a child is being destructive or is using materials in an aimless way, the teacher will intervene and gently re-direct the child either to more appropriate materials or to a more appropriate use of the material.
