Toddler
(Ages: 18 months to 2.5 years)
Our toddler program provides a vast array of opportunities for children to build upon their existing strengths and skills as well as discover new ones
Hawthorne Daycare’s Toddler’s Program
Our toddler program provides a vast array of opportunities for children to build upon their existing strengths and skills as well as discover new ones. We nurture and guide children in their budding development as they explore learning experiences, develop self-control and become more independent. By exploring the “world” around them, the toddler child will develop the skills to become empathetic, nurturing, friendly, respectful to themselves as well as others, self-reliant, responsible and empowered individuals.
Individualized Care
Most of our toddlers and families are new to daycare and we strive to provide a bright, clean, safe, and nurturing environment for them. The qualified staff get to know each of our toddlers as individuals and work to program so that each one’s needs are met within the group setting. Self help skills such as feeding, serving self, dressing, and undressing are all skills that are worked on from the beginning. Toddlers feel pride when they can accomplish these tasks on their own. Toddlers also work on social skills such as turn taking, sharing and empathy. The teachers strive to build a trusting and reciprocal relationship with parents/guardians so that the toddlers have good role models and a stronger bond with those who are shaping their future
- Licensed for 15 toddlers
- 1 teacher to every 5 toddlers’ ratio
- Using observation and documentation, teachers plan the weekly program based on children’s interest and skills.
- The program is child directed and teachers facilitated.
Toddler Daily Routine
7:30 a.m – 8:45 a.m
Welcome, breakfast, free play and planned activities
8:45 a.m – 9:00 a.m
Get ready for outdoor play
9:00 a.m – 10:00 a.m
Outdoor Play, gross motor activities
10:00 a.m – 10:30 a.m
Diaper changes, washroom routine and free play and planned activities /Tidy up time
10:30 a.m – 11:00 a.m
Circle Time/ Stories/ Sharing time
11:00 a.m – 11:45 a.m
Lunch
11:45 a.m – 12:00 a.m
Diaper changes, washroom routine and quiet free play/Books/Tidy up time
12:00 p.m – 2:00 p.m
Nap Time (quiet activities as they wake up)
2:00 p.m – 3:00 p.m
Afternoon snack/ diaper changes and washroom routines/ Free play and planned activities / Tidy up time
3:00 p.m – 4:00 p.m
Outdoor Play, gross motor activities
4:00 p.m – 4:30 p.m
Diaper change and washroom routine/ Free play and planned activities
4:30 p.m – 6:00 p.m
Free play and planned activities / circle time / Tidy up and Goodbye
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