Early Childhood Curriculum
Infants
At Tracha Toddlers, we create a warm, loving environment in which infants will feel safe, meeting each infant's needs through focused, individualized care.
Infants eat, sleep and play according to their own schedules.
As our infants learn to push up, sit up, and crawl, we provide opportunities for them to safely explore and build their skills.
Toddlers & Preschoolers
At Tracha Toddlers, we recognize that each child is an individual, with his or her own unique skills and interests. As our children grow into Toddlers and then Preschoolers, we provide them with opportunities to work on their developmental skills at their own pace.
Social Emotional Skills
Knowing that strong social emotional skills are the keys to a child's success, we ensure that children at Tracha Toddlers have endless opportunities to build self-confidence, independence, a strong sense of self-worth, and the ability to build and maintain strong friendships that can last a lifetime.
Physical Skills
Large Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Large motor skills, the ability to control and successfully utilize one's larger muscles, are vital to many experiences children will have in their future, both in and out of school, such as playing on the playground, participating in sports, riding a bicycle and sitting at a desk.
We provide daily opportunities for children to play outside and to build these essential skills.
Fine motor skills, the ability to both identify and control small objects with one's hands, are critical for many tasks such as writing, drawing, picking up dropped Cheerios and finding pennies in your pocket.
We support the development of fine motor skills by providing hands on experiences such as drawing, painting, cutting and using stickers, and sensory experiences such as playing with finger paint, sand and water.
Language & Literacy Skills
Language Skills
Young children develop language skills at a remarkable rate and we provide opportunities to help them do so. We facilitate the growth of spoken language through speaking with the children and through actively encouraging them to speak with each other. We ask for their opinions, model patterns of conversation, ask them questions and utilize descriptive language to help them begin to label items and feelings.
Literacy Skills
We foster a love of reading and a familiarity with the alphabet at a developmentally appropriate level. We encourage the development of literacy skills by reading to children regularly, both individually and in groups, and by having books accessible throughout our days. We model reading and writing throughout our interactions with the children, seamlessly demonstrating the importance of literacy through daily activities.
Cognitive Skills
Science
The world is filled with opportunities for exploration and the development of scientific knowledge. At Tracha Toddlers, children learn about science throughout our days, including through gardening, cooking, mixing colors, observing the changes of the seasons and the growth of our plants. We know that the world is theirs to discover, and we provide our children with the opportunities to do so.
Problem Solving
One of the key aspects of cognitive development is the ability to analyze and solve problems. Children learn these skills through play as they solve puzzles, figure out how to make their block tower stand, and experiment with different materials. At Tracha Toddlers, we encourage our children to ask questions, and to help discover the answers themselves.
Math
At Tracha Toddlers, we recognize the opportunity to develop math skills through play. Children learn by counting the people and items they come in contact with throughout their days - blocks, each other, the number of chairs at the table... We also teach numbers by singing songs, doing puzzles and reading books with numbers in them.