Toddlers 18 months-36 months

At around eighteen months of age, through age 36 months, the child’s brain is going through some interesting changes. From birth, your child has been receiving sensory input from everything h/she touches, tastes, hears, sees, smells and from each body movement made. The toddler years are the time that the brain is categorizing the different sensory input. The toddler brain needs order and organization to help clarify the sensory input that it is receiving.

As the child is unable to maintain order themselves, a true Montessori classroom will demonstrate order for the child and help him/her in their development of order.

In the toddler classroom, students will enjoy individual lessons structured for their needs as well as organized group activities.

The goals for the toddler aged students at Lighthouse Montessori School are as follows:

• Learning to feel safe and secure at Lighthouse Montessori School

• Development of speech

• Development of large muscles

• Development of order and organization

• Learning to function in a community of other children

• Toilet learning

• Learning to LOVE learning