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Greensboro Montessori School Toddler Curriculum
Eighteen months to three year olds (half day program 8:30- 11:30)

The Toddler environment encourages freedom of movement, an atmosphere of respect, and the growth of independence. The routine for the classroom is orderly and simple to support the child's strong need for order and predictability. The classroom is organized with shelves holding activities for the different areas of the curriculum- Practical Life, Sensorial, and Language Development. All furniture and shelves are child-sized so that the child can choose and access work independently. Based on continual observations, the teachers rotate the materials to meet the children's ever-changing developmental needs. All of the materials relate to a specific skill or task and possess a control of error.

Children are encouraged to choose work freely. At the beginning of the year, the main focus of the program is to help children establish a feeling of trust that will allow them to separate from their parents with ease. Parents play an important part in this process and may be encouraged to stay in the classroom until the child has formed a bond with the teacher. Home visits prior to the start of school are also an important first step in this process.


Learning Languages

Just as with the infants at our school, the Toddlers are at a period of learning languages which Maria Montessori called “the sensitive period.” Researchers today call it a “window of opportunity.”
Children from birth through age 6 are wired to absorb any language, as well as absorbing multiple languages concurrently. If the child consistently hears a native speaker speaking in the native language, the child will develop a perfect accent of that language. In order to make the most of this opportunity, our toddler classrooms offer a dual language approach with both teachers speaking in their native language all the time. The teachers also use sign language to communicate with the children as a bridge to both languages as well as a vehicle for children to learn to express themselves before they have the verbal skills to do so. Dual language learning is carried through in one the Primary classrooms as well.