Welcome to the Toddler Community

Ages 18 Months - 36 Months

PROGRAM IN DEVELOPMENT

The first three years of life are known by all to be the most important time in human development. Maria Montessori stated, that education must begin at birth and the Montessori Toddler program offers more than the typical daycare.

During this stage, your child absorbs large amounts of information from the environment through observation and experiences. These are the years that lay the foundation for later learning—and the stronger the foundation, the more the child will be able to build upon it.

Toddler programs offer a curriculum that emerges from each child’s unique skills and interests. Based on daily observations, teachers introduce new materials and activities that pique curiosity and stimulate learning. Learning objectives for your child at this age include developing skills such as language, concentration, problem solving, visual discrimination, and physical coordination.

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The First Developmental Plane: "Help Me to Help Myself".

Practical Life

The activities of practical life are those which humans undertake in their daily lives. These activities allow them to feed themselves and look after themselves and others as well as the environment in which they live.

The tasks of practical life are real, follow a logical sequence, bring together different sensorial experiences and involve the co-ordinated movement of the body which is guided by the mind. They allow them to learn cultural customs, provide the opportunity to understand cause and effect, and build mental abilities such as perception, memory and analysis.

Practical life areas:

Care of self
Care of the environment
Food preparation
Placement of furniture
Grace and courtesy

Fine-Motor

In the Montessori preschool classroom, children participate in practical life activities, which are known to improve a child’s fine motor skills (coordinated small muscle movements in the hands, wrists, and fingers) and hand-eye coordination (the use of the eyes to guide movements). Actions, like grasping, reaching and releasing an object, and turning the wrist, are the types of fine motor movements that children learn in a Montessori preschool, in order to prepare them for the daily tasks of life. Fine motor development begins almost right away in babies, as they use their reflexes to grasp a rattle or your finger.

As children grow, they will be able to engage in sewing and weaving activities, which develop their manual dexterity. The action of picking up objects with small tongs or tweezers develops a child’s pincer grip, which is a necessary precursor for learning how to write later on.

Large-Motor

Unlike traditional preschools, a Montessori preschool focuses on developing every aspect of the whole child. This includes a child’s physical development. From the enhancement of hand-eye coordination and sensorial abilities to the development of gross and fine motor skills, a Montessori preschool will make sure that each child develops the skills they will need to gain a sense of order and independence.

Large, or gross-motor skills are large coordinated muscle movements, such as climbing, walking, or jumping. Montessori programs offer physical activities that improve your child’s health, balance, and muscle memory.

To develop the large muscles of the body, it’s important to reach gross motor milestones – such as walking, running, jumping and climbing. Gross motor activities are provided for the children in both indoor and outdoor environments. One distinct way you may see this play out is by observing children "walking on the line" as they sing or march along to a song.

Language

In the toddler environment, the adults are ‘language materials’ in the sense of providing and modeling spoken language.

The first group of activities in the language area is meant to develop and enrich language with a variety of exercises that represent a progression from concrete to abstraction.

Structured Montessori Two Period Lessons are our way of introducing new language and vocabulary to the children. These lessons are meant to be interactive and fun and offer the children a means to explore and understand the new words and concepts being shared with them. Language materials are always presented as categorized sets. This helps the children start to organize and classify the information that we are presenting to them. Children often engage in these activities as a small group with an adult and they are a favorite choice!

Social

The classroom is a community in which respect for the independence and character of your child is paramount. Caregivers are consistently calm, gentle, soft-spoken, patient, and trusting. They demonstrate respect and compassion by using eye contact, kneeling to the level of the child, addressing your children by name, and speaking before touching or moving them. The result is a calm, soothing atmosphere in which consistent caregivers create an emotional safe haven for those in their care.

Social development is supported through interactions with peers, teachers, and adult-led small group games. Child-sized furniture, utensils, and other tools enable children to make independent choices and complete activities, which builds self-confidence, concentration, and critical thinking skills.

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