Toddlers
(13 months – 23 months)
At TGS Kidz Academy we concentrate on the developmental goals of this age as well as emphasize safety and security with a loving and caring staff. Our environment is specially designed so children can explore and play together as they begin their understanding of socially appropriate behavior. At this precious age, toddlers’ little minds are a sponge for learning opportunities. Your toddler might seem to be unconcerned with life’s daily events, but that’s not quite the case. The fact is, toddlers are busy little people who love to climb, explore, build and create. They are learning to master their bodies by walking, running, stooping, climbing, throwing and jumping. Our well-trained and nurturing staff will encourage and allow your toddler to make these new discoveries in a safe environment.
We engage our toddlers in playing with toys, imitating and pretending, enjoying stories and books, connecting with music and movement, creating with art, tasting and preparing food, exploring sand and water, and going outdoors.
Any object that young children can explore, put together, take apart, push, pull, stack and create becomes a toy in a child’s hands. Toys teach skills while at the same time children are playing and having fun. While playing with materials, children learn about size, shape and sequence, problem solving, cause and effect, balance, eye hand coordination and social skills.
Developmental Goals
• To encourage body expressions and control
• To develop concrete thinking skills
• To promote social play
• To encourage and develop language skills
• To develop a sense of emotional security
The Teachers are committed to broadening and deepening your child’s experience by providing opportunities for new challenges as well as familiar activities that the child can master in all areas of development: motor, cognitive, perceptual, social, emotional, language and expressive capabilities. We like to promote a sense of positive self-esteem and self-confidence as a competent, capable, active learner and member of a family and community.
Our specially trained teachers use our curriculum to promote those understandings, dispositions, and skills that lead to success in future schooling.
More About All of Our Programs
TGS Kidz Academy offers an exceptional educational program that introduces academics through fun activities that not only invigorate the mind of a child but also boost independence, confidence and self-esteem. We challenge our children with a curriculum that captures their imagination, and a learning environment where they can make discoveries, solve problems, and think independently.
We believe that no one method of instruction is all comprehensive, we have drawn from several approaches and use traditional and progressive methods of instruction to develop a well rounded curriculum that encourages the social, academic, and emotional growth of the child.
TGS Kidz Academy uniquely designed curriculum, provides developmentally appropriate learning that is challenging, stimulating and meets the needs of infants through school-age children. Fascinating themes, combined with learning objectives, aid our teachers with planning learning experiences through music, art, fine and gross motor, language, evolving math and literacy, movement and drama. Our curriculum has a strong literature component. We believe that children become readers and writers by having someone read to them and many opportunities to express their thoughts and feelings through print. Our curriculum offers teachers hundreds of activities to choose from, each of which that is fixed to a specific learning objective.
Your children will not only make the developmental progress necessary for a successful transition to kindergarten, they will love the activities that get them there.
Additionally, our curriculum is based on the premise that children learn through active and direct interaction with materials with the adults who facilitate children’s learning. Manipulatives, puzzles, games and art materials stimulate "hands-on" learning and concrete learning experiences. We also know that children do not learn skills in isolation. Shapes, colors, numbers, letters and phonemic awareness are used throughout each day to give children a strong readiness foundation. We are always looking for fun and interesting ways to stimulate children’s learning.
At TGS Kidz Academy we feel we can make a difference in the lives of children and their teachers, and that we are responsible for the "whole" child. Our curriculum includes experiences with real works of art and classical music. Nevertheless, our children are never too young to learn about honesty, patience, or friendship. The combination of these to our curricula ensures your child will cover all the necessary readiness standards of successfully and confidently moving ahead to the next steps in life.
