Toddlers
Toddlers thrive in safe, nurturing environments where they can explore at their own pace.
About
the toddlers care program at Growing Roots
In the toddlers’ room, we follow the RIE philosophy and integrate the Pikler and Reggio Emilia approaches. Teachers respect and focus on your child’s interests, expanding on them through planned or spontaneous activities.
Our routines for sleeping, eating, and toilet learning are flexible, calm, familiar, and positive. We encourage self-help skills such as hand washing and eating.
Our routines for sleeping, eating, and toilet learning are flexible, calm, familiar, and positive. We encourage self-help skills such as hand washing and eating.
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Learn to be independent
At Growing Roots Early Learning Center, we encourage toddlers to take responsibility for themselves and their actions by providing choices and fostering independence. Teachers support and respond to toddlers’ communication and growing independence, establishing consistent and manageable expectations and boundaries. Our teachers help toddlers navigate their feelings, make decisions, and handle conflicts and frustrations.
- Independent, teacher-directed, and small-group activities that encourage investigation, exploration, and discovery
- STEM learning that encourages future-forward skills
Toddlers program
- Teacher-directed and small-group activities to foster cooperation, sharing, taking turns, and waiting for assistance.
- Sensory games featuring various numbers, symbols, shapes, sizes, and colors.
- Art activities that promote mark-making, drawing, and symbol awareness.
- Language development activities with a variety of books, songs, poems, and chants.
Ages
we meet kids where they are.
Infants
Babies enjoy relaxed, soothing nursing routines for feeding, sleeping, and diaper changes, fostering a peaceful and nurturing environment.
Toddler
Toddlers explore choices, take risks, and enjoy diverse indoor and outdoor play with guidance from dedicated ngā Kaiako/teachers.
Preschool
Young children gain independence, make choices, learn self-care skills, and prepare for literacy in primary school.