Curriculum Goals for Toddler Class

At SPS, our preschool classes spend every day learning through play! With specials like music, Spanish, P.E., and Library throughout the week plus a full half hour of recess every day, all of our children get a wonderfully full day of learning and moving.

Emotional Growth

• Provide safe, healthy, secure, welcoming environment away from home.

• Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.

• Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life.

• Create an environment that encourages curiosity and exploration.

• Provide experiences to increase child’s sense of competence.

• Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative.

Cognitive Growth

• Provide activities to promote language development.

• Provide activities to promote sequencing skills.

• Provide opportunities to learn expressive language through singing songs or saying fingerplays, conversation, role playing, pretend and dramatic play, peer interaction, and circle time.

• Provide activities to promote visual discrimination with colors and matching colors, simple objects or pictures.

• Invite interest in books and reading by reading, encouraging children to hold and explore books, and to “read” using pictures and memory.

• Provide opportunities to express self through music, art, movement.

• Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.

Social Growth

• Encourage beginning cooperative play, sharing, and taking turns.

• Encourage independence (leaves parent comfortably).

• Encourage sharing of adults with other children.

• Encourage responsibility for maintaining classroom environment.

• Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.

Physical Growth

• Provide activities to promote large muscle development.

• Provide activities to promote small muscle development and eye-hand.

• Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety.

Spiritual Growth

• Encourage and model being a good friend, showing love for one another.

• Encourage and model consciousness of God, exploration of God’s world.

• Introduce rituals of thankfulness.