Toddler Program

The Montessori Toddler classroom allows the child to function independently in the prepared environment created just for them. It offers a range of activities that are purposeful and sensorial in nature. These activities may include lessons in practical life skills, manipulative materials for eye-hand coordination, gross motor activities and lessons in community living.

The Montessori Toddler teacher is calm, patient and trusting. They create and maintain a loving and consistent environment for the toddler to explore. Through observation of the child they offer activities and lessons that will best engage and support the toddler’s emerging independence and mastery of skills.

Toddlers are concrete thinkers and explorers. They absorb everything in their environment by watching, listening and manipulating. In this class the child is free to exercise autonomy- in movement, choice of activity, and expression of self. The assurance and independence gained through the work of the Toddler environment will support the child in meeting future challenges with confidence. 

The main focus of the Toddler curriculum is to meet the developmental needs of each student, particularly in the areas of concentration, language expansion, toilet learning, refinement of movement and socialization. Engagement in these activities begins as collaborative work with the adult in the environment and then moves to the child’s independent work.

Montessori Teachers are trained to guide not only their students but the students’ parents too. They are experts in child development and look to collaborate with parents so as to provide the optimal environment in which the child will flourish.