Welcome to Toddler 2022-23

We are happy to welcome back all our returning toddlers and families and extend a warm welcome to all new toddlers and families for the 2022-23 school year in the Maple Room. We look forward to a peaceful, productive, and respective partnership with you to ensure our Maple friends can become independent and confident little, but mighty, human beings. 

We know a strong partnership with you will make a tremendous positive impact on our toddlers’ growth. As partners, we share responsibility for our toddlers’ success and try our best to support them. The first two months of the school year are a time of excitement with nervousness for many toddlers and parents. In Maple room, gaining confidence and cultivating resilience is a critical foundation to establish for their long-term life success, especially at the beginning of the school year.

We generate a safe and carefully planned environment to help toddlers develop foundational habits, a love of learning, and skills that last their lifetime to achieve these goals.

From the beginning of the school year, we kindly ask you that our toddlers:

1) Arrive at school on time

2) Eat a good amount of food

3) That you inform us if there are any changes or challenges (Please use paper notepad, text classroom phone, or message through ProCare)

4) Leave toys at home or in the car

As toddlers make a flawless transition to school, they will feel empowered and learn how to do things independently. In the Maple room, teachers focus on each toddler’s needs and prepare materials and activities for the individual. We create areas in: practical life, language, sensory, fine and gross motor, and care for self and others and their environments. Our Maple friends are encouraged to be exposed to various social and emotional learning, art, math, science concepts, and culture. Toddlers will use hands-on materials for learning, exploring, and discovering the world around them with their senses.

Throughout the toddler year, practical life activities encourage our toddlers to take care of themselves and class environments with size-appropriate tools. For example, washing hands, using the toilet, gardening, dusting, mopping, sweeping, washing dishes, and feeding classroom pets. We also have weekly “Sign language,” “Music Together,” and “Spanish” teachers that will visit our classroom to increase their verbal expression, boost their language skills, love of music, and expose them to a second language and culture.

Lastly, here is a sample of our class schedule:

8:30 Morning drop-off

9:00-9:15 Outdoor time (weather permitting)

9:15-9:25 Transition to the classroom (changing shoes, washing hands, and potty)

9:25-11:00 Uninterrupted work period

11:00-11:10 Transition to the outdoor (diaper/potty and changing shoes)

11:10-11:45 Outdoor gross motor activities and free playtime

11:30-11:45 Half-day pick-up window. Full-day toddlers Transition to the classroom

11:45-12:15 Lunch, clean up and prepare for nap

12:15-2:15 Nap

2:15-2:45 Transition to the outdoor and outdoor gross motor activities and free playtime

3:00 Full-day pick-up

We are very excited to get to know our toddlers and their families.