Our Toddler Room at our childcare and early learning centre caters for up to 16 children aged 18 months to 2.5 years. This is the perfect space in which to learn and grow in these very early developmental years. In the Toddler Room, our highly experienced and trained staff create an environment where your toddler can flourish. As part of our Toddler Room activities, we have both indoor and outdoor activities in our childcare centre. These are designed to nurture creativity, encourage socialisation and aid learning.
About the Toddler Room
The Toddler Room program ensures that each child’s individual needs are met while they gain confidence in a social environment. Children are encouraged to explore their environments by engaging in a number of creative activities designed for toddlers. Our carefully developed program involves a variety of music and movement, as well as creative and sensory activities. We also conduct story times and make space for plenty of outdoor experiences. This means that, while our Toddler Room is a quality blend of both a childcare room and classroom that your toddler will love to spend time in.
Routine
At Lili Early Learning Centre, our program has been designed to help your child develop and grow in a nurturing, safe and exciting environment. While the day-to-day routine may vary to allow for the building and fostering of different skills, core elements are maintained to provide your child with a sense of structure. We’ve found that structure encourages a feeling of security, while still allowing for creative freedom as they explore the world around them. They might do this by engaging in any one of the numerous Toddler Room activities we have set up and ready to go for free play periods. During free play, toddlers can both discover and pursue their personal interests, and will start to establish themselves as individuals. When it comes to our creative expression activities for toddlers, we offer guidance and teach your children skills that allow them to express themselves more effectively.
Program
The Toddler Room program is focused on both sensory and creative development activities that are specifically designed for toddlers. Sensory play for toddlers includes any activity that engages the child’s senses, including touch, smell, sight, sound, and taste. These activities can also encourage movement and balance, and help your child build spacial awareness. When toddlers experience something that engages their senses in a new way, nerve connections grow and develop in their brain. The result will leave children fully engaged and open to learning about concepts like “time” and “opposites”. Sensory activities for toddlers can also help them develop their language and problem-solving skills. Any given creative activity that is meant for toddlers is probably a sensory activity too. For example, activities like finger painting and playing with play dough allow creativity and sensory play to intersect.
Put Your Child On the Right Track
Another major benefit to the Toddler Room is that it prepares children for the next stage of their development, and will leave them completely ready for the Pre Kinder Program. Here at Lili’s Early Learning Centre, our programs are connected in a way that makes transitioning from one program to another completely painless for the child. They will spend each year slowly and seamlessly growing into the following program, so that by the time they’re ready for the Kindergarten Room, even this milestone won’t seem so intimidating. Beginning with the Childcare Nursery Room, our rooms are designed in such a way that encourages growth and development throughout the entirety of those first few crucial years.
