Toddler Program 18 months -2.5 years

The Educara Toddler Childcare Program for ages 18 months to 2.5 years is led by a dedicated team of loving and nurturing professional Montessori and Registered Early Childhood Education teachers.

Early childhood is a crucial phase for overall development throughout a person’s lifetime. Choosing the right program for your young toddler is a significant decision.

Our classroom prepared, toddler-sized, the environment is a spacious, well-designed area where children are free to explore with all their senses. Attractive, age-appropriate learning materials and toys are displayed on low shelves within easy reach for toddlers.

They play, engage, and satisfy their natural curiosity through engaging activities gently guided by their caregivers. Self-esteem and feelings of competence develop naturally through toys and material with intrinsic self-correction, ensuring success, pride, and accomplishment in practical life and sensorial experiences.

Toddlers, at this age, are just beginning to express themselves verbally. Therefore, it is imperative to nurture and encourage its development. Language allows the child to articulate wants, needs, likes, and dislikes.

The Educara Toddler childcare program strives to establish a child who can express himself confidently and clearly, resulting in better behavior management and a happier child.

Language development, in the program, is accomplished through various activities such as age-appropriate stories, singing, and spontaneous conversation time.

Our rich curriculum for toddlers is designed to

foster cognitive development, speech, and language development
develop and strengthen, fine and gross motor skills
teach practical life skills and foster independence
instill confidence, kindness, grace, and courtesy
allow children to learn by doing, using all their senses to explore the world
help joyfully inspire social skills and cooperation

What makes Educara's Toddler Program so unique?

A team of nurturing teachers trained in early childhood development and Montessori education.
Spacious, well-designed areas where toddlers are free to explore their indoor and outdoor environments with all their senses.
A classroom where everything is toddler-sized. Attractive learning materials are displayed on low shelves within easy reach for toddlers.
Toddlers learn language from stimulating materials and activities and learn to articulate their wants, needs, likes, and dislikes. All this results in a child who can express himself confidently, which results in less frustration and an all-around happier child.
Self-esteem and feelings of competence develop naturally as toddlers successfully engage in fun and meaningful activities.
Toddlers gain an awareness of other children and learn to feel secure in the relaxed atmosphere of our school.
They take pride in sorting, stacking and counting; matching and sequencing; scooping and pouring; cleaning, and sweeping.
Toddlers spend time outdoors every day (weather permitting); exercise is a regular part of each day.
Toddlers are free to choose their ‘work,’ and that work becomes a cherished activity.
Our toddlers explore and engage in activities in the areas of Practical Life, Sensorial, Language, Music, Physical Education, Dance, Art, and Nature Exploration.
Toddlers are well prepared for Educara Montessori Preschool Program, the next step in their Montessori education.

* Please note that Toddlers are provided with two healthy snacks daily as well as a nutritious lunch prepared by the chef at V!va.