Scottsdale Child Care & Learning Centers’ Toddler Program enrolls children that have turned one, are fully walking, and are able to eat table food. With these new developmental abilities, toddlers are ready to tackle more diverse and stimulating activities!

These hands-on learning activities, accompanied with the rest of our challenging toddler program curriculum, help to advance your toddler’s social, physical, emotional and intellectual growth. Our Scottsdale toddler teachers also strive to instill a feeling of autonomy and positive self-concept in each child.

We at Scottsdale Learning Centers understand that an abundance of change occurs in your child’s second year. We have two toddler classrooms at our schools for this very reason, and those two classrooms are very unique from each other.

Young Toddlers (12 -18 months)

This younger group of toddlers enjoy a toddler program that still caters to their individual schedules. The schedules in the young toddler classrooms provide for a morning and an afternoon nap, for toddlers that still drink from a bottle, and for those still taking pacifiers.

Toddlers that fit this category are working hard at doing things on their own, such as eating, playing, and talking!

These new walkers love to explore outdoors as well as indoors, which they are encouraged to do on our fun and safe toddler playgrounds. They also are led in tons of interesting activities, including singing along with music, walking, rocking & riding toys, toddler manipulatives, games, puzzles, and story time.

Our young toddlers still take their naptimes in cribs, eat in highchairs, and are provided with breakfast, lunch, and snacks throughout the day, as well as crib sheets, diapers, blankets and bibs.

Experienced Toddlers (18-24 months)

Our young toddlers move up to the experienced toddlers group when they are down to taking one nap and are drinking from cups. Now that they have much more time on their hands, our older toddlers are introduced to our school-wide thematic curriculum. Their daily lesson plans are packed with new, exciting activities, such as learning centers and circle time, to maximize age-appropriate learning development within the playtime.

By now, toddlers enjoy playing together, making friends, and helping each other learn many new skills. They delight in using their imaginations, as well as their energy, with lots of dancing, running, playing, and laughing with their friends. They learn to sit at the table to create art projects and eat their snacks and meals. They love to clap along and actively learn during circle times. Come tour our childcare to see for yourselves what our toddlers are up to today!

Families receive a daily log of their child’s feeding, sleeping, diapering and learning activities, which is meant to be supplementary to the daily face-to-face communication between our parents and teachers.