Our toddler program encourages the children to build a community in an environment that supports learning together and caring for each other while building friendships. Your little toddler is busy learning, approaching the world with curiosity and seeking a sense of belonging. The toddlers eat meals at tables together and enjoy an open concept playroom with free play and weekly activities that promote exploration and learning. Our center has an exclusive potty-training method. Our teachers are trained and equipped with 4 child size toilets conveniently located right outside the toddler room. The toddlers are co-constructors in developing intellectually by exploring and experimenting the environment around them. The toddlers will be encouraged to use thinking skills and language throughout the day. Each child’s care, play, learning, and development are nurtured as teachers work within a practice of relationships, appreciating family, social, and cultural practices and traditions and embracing a strong capable image of the child, as a mighty learner and citizen. Children are supported to develop self-regulation skills- the ability to adapt their behaviour, attention, emotions, and thoughts in response to what is going on around them (sitting still when appropriate, the ability to defer reward and positive self-talk are a few examples). Children are supported to express pro-social behaviour- voluntarily choosing behaviours that help and benefit others, such as sharing and cooperation. The children play daily in the outdoor playground, or on days when the weather doesn’t cooperate, they’ll play inside the center. Children will also experience in house field trips such as a petting zoo, yoga, dance, special guest readers and puppet shows are brought into the centre.