TODDLERS
Our Toddler Program is an intimate environment where your child can feel at home away from home. We welcome families into our program through a gentle separation process, protecting this special phase of adjusting into a school environment for the first time.
Our Montessori and Judaic inspired curriculum offers the children a unique year of self-development in a tender atmosphere of special understanding, respect, and support.
HALF DAY Monday- Friday 9 AM - 12:45 PM
FULL DAY Monday- Thursday 9 AM - 3:30 PM, Friday 9 AM - 2:30 PM
Our Curriculum
LANGUAGE
The toddler Program appropriately accomodates the child’s sensitive period for language by offering different ways to expand their growing vocabularies. Joining conversations, listening to stories, classifying objects, and learning songs and poems all nurture their budding language skills. To help smooth their developing social interactions, the toddler also learns to use words and express their feelings and needs.
PRACTICAL LIFE / SELF-HELP SKILLS
Many of the activities in the Toddler Program highlight the self-help skills that lead to independence. Children are gently urged to hang up their backpacks, put away their water bottles, clean up their snack plates, dry up spills, and problem-solve. Since this is an age of very strong imitation, the teachers constantly model self-care and care of the environment, appropriate social skills, good manners, and consideration to others.
HAND-EYE COORDINATION
Toddlers are constantly refining their grasp and practicing working with two hands together. They gain mastery and control over their hand movements through activities like threading, opening, and closing, pouring, and using tools like spoons and tongs.
MOVEMENT
Through song, dance and freedom of choice, the toddlers have access to a variety of gross motor activities that offer them opportunities to jump, climb, balance and crawl. This freedom in a safe space is crucial to the Toddler program. However it is always tempered by two important limits that will be beneficial for a lifetime -- respect for others and respect for the environment.
ARTS
For toddlers, art and craft activities are about self-expression, movement, and experiencing different materials, The process takes precedent over the product.