Two to Three-Year-Old Pod

In the dynamic world of our two to three-year-old pod, your child is at the heart of a tailored learning experience. As their language blossoms and exploration expands, we prioritize a balanced routine and flexibility to cater to their unique developmental needs. With a focus on creating a nurturing, home-like environment, your child’s primary educator treats them as capable individuals, respecting and valuing their opinions, actions, and thoughts.

Our pod consists of three classrooms, each with two primary educators. Additionally, there are two support educators and one mentor educator assigned to the pod, ensuring comprehensive care and guidance. Our emergent learning curriculum is a vibrant tapestry of experiences, encompassing math, science, language, drama, and music to stimulate the whole child. Rapid language development is met with enthusiasm as we seize the opportunity to expand their vocabulary, all while fostering imagination through the joy of play. In the two to three-year-old pod, every day is an adventure of growth, exploration, and the boundless possibilities of learning through play.

We believe that children, educators, and parents deserve to live in aesthetically pleasing, interesting, and comfortable surroundings. Valuing beauty and respect for people, places, and things shapes the ‘ways of being’ we role model and foster with children, parents, and family.

Understanding that children arrive with their own plans in mind, we use our collective wisdom to design the curriculum and offer resources that captivate and engage this age group. We cherish children’s engagement, providing them with long periods to choose where to place their attention. Our environment strikes a delicate balance between the excitement of new experiences and the comfort of familiar favorites. This atmosphere of reassurance allows children to relax into discovering the affordances of various materials, rising to the challenge of using them in increasingly complex ways to communicate ideas, tell stories, imagine, and create.

Self-regulation, resilience, and good manners are important characteristics to foster from an early age. By tuning children into how their ‘thinking hat’ is working, we help them take responsibility for their actions, words, and feelings. Educators constantly talk to children about appropriate manners in any given moment and establish boundaries for acceptable behavior. These strategies support our aspiration for a peaceful and harmonious classroom.