Toddler Life

daily schedule

7:30 AM — Centre Opens

7:30 AM - 9:00 AM. — Child Directed Activities and Arrival

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM — Morning Snack

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM — Circle Time

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM — Curriculum Activities (See below)

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM — Outdoor Play

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM — Diapering and Handwashing Routines

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM — Lunch

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM — Naptime

2:00 PM - 2:15 PM — Diapering and Handwashing Routines

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM — Afternoon Snack

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM — Curriculum Activities Continued (See below)

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM — Outdoor Play

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM — Child Directed Activities and Dismissal

6:00 PM — Centre Closed

Curriculum Goals for Early Learning

1. Social

1.1 Social Interest

1.2 Perspective Taking

1.3 Parallel Play

2. Emotional

2.1 Expression of Feelings

2.2 Self-Regulation (emotion, behaviour, attention)

2.3 Empathy

2.4 Sense of Self

2.5 Autonomy

2.6 Identity Formation

3. Communication, Language and Literacy

3.1 Receptive Language

3.2 Expressive Language (words, sentences, vocabulary, questions, conversation)

4. Cognition

4.1 Self-regulation

4.2 Problem Solving

4.3 Cause-and-Effect Exploration

4.4 Spatial Exploration

4.5 Spatial Problem Solving

4.6 Temporal

4.7 Symbolic Thought, Representation and Roots of Literacy

4.8 Memory

4.9 Sorting

5. Physical

5.1 Gross Motor (balance, jumping, walking and running, climbing, riding toys)

5.2 Fine Motor (dressing, eating, tool use, making a mark, pincer grasp)

5.3 Senses (sensory exploration, sensory discrimination, sensory motor integration)

Toddler Program

daily schedule

Sample Week Program

Curriculum Goals for Early Learning