North Toronto Early Years Learning Centre

Toddler Program - 18 Months to 2½

Our Toddler program has been developed to ensure positive early experiences with school in order to create positive attitudes towards learning. Our goal is to promote the child’s social skills, empowering him/her to speak up and problem solve for themselves, to build friendships and a sense of belonging. The daily schedule is set to ensure a respect for order and a sense of responsibility for one’s self and one’s place in the group.

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The Toddler Program

Curriculum Goals:

Our goal is to have every class prepare the child to be the most successful that he/she can be in the following class. Our Toddler Program is a modified version of our Preschool Program focusing on developmental charts and assessments to ensure that milestones are being met and that Innate Intelligences identified are utilized as a tool to help children learn information in a way that is useful to them; thus ensuring retention. This style of programming is designed in such a way that progress can be tracked to ensure that all of our children are thriving in these listed developmental domains: Social-Emotional, Receptive/Expressive Language, Cognitive, Science and Sensory, Fine and Gross Motor, Creative and Dramatic.

Curriculum Carpet Experiences:

Songs and books are an important part of our Toddler Curriculum Program as these strengthen such skills as comprehension, retention and critical thinking; thereby increasing attention spans and building receptive and expressive language abilities. Children will also have opportunities to participate in group cognitive games were they will learn such skills as matching, sorting, seriating and turn-taking.

Social and Emotional Goals:

Toddlers, especially, strive for a sense of independence and long for the pride of, “I can do it!” Because of this our Toddler room is particularly focused on teaching these children how to take care of themselves and provide them with opportunities to realize just how capable they are. Simple things that we take for granted like putting our shoes on, taking our coats on and off, making choices and learning social cues are all tackled one at a time to help foster feelings of pride and competency. We believe that when children feel capable they are more inclined to adept to social cues, have the courage needed to try new things and develop feelings of mutual respect.

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