Early Toddler Program
*(16 to 24 months)
At Fontanelle Academy, we understand that the selection of a caregiver for your toddler is one of the most important decisions parents make. When you entrust us with the responsibility to educate and care for your child, we rise to your expectations.
Our goal is to create a seamless and harmonious caretaking experience aligned with your family’s care routine at home.
Our Soft Spot Nourish & Care™ Method Key Features Include:
An assigned Early Toddler Specialist that establishes a bond with your child through one-on-one time and cares for him/her daily creating the consistency needed for toddlers to thrive
A Collaborative Early Toddler Care Plan established between you and your child’s Early Toddler Specialist that addresses your toddler’s emotional, nutritional, hygiene, and rest needs
A technology-based care log accessible to you that allows you to check-in on the daily activities and care provided to you child
WatchMeGrow, a secured and encrypted live video link that allows you to visually peek in on your toddler throughout the day
Enriched play and care environments that allows your toddler to safely explore and navigate
Environments include age appropriate items that provide your toddler emotional comfort, stimulate their senses, and develop cognitive skills and functions
Always There— Access to a web-based, secured portal that allows you to virtually observe your child throughout the day.
More than Words— A language development and literacy curriculum that develops your toddler’s verbal communication skills through interaction with others and engagement with literature. Your toddler will learn to identify letters and their sounds, write letters, and identify sight words. He/she will develop listening and comprehension skills. This lays the foundation for reading and literacy.
Tiny Tots in Motion— A physical education curriculum that develops your toddler’s motor, perception, coordination, movement, and balancing skills and aids in healthy digestion. Physically stimulating activities include floor time, outdoor playground time, indoor play lofts, yoga stretching, etc. designed to strengthen muscles and develop muscle memory. Optional physical extracurricular offerings include dance and music.
Little Diplomats— A social studies curriculum which develops your toddler’s social and emotional competence. Toddlers develop the ability to regulate their emotions and share their feelings, as well as social skills through interaction with caregivers and other children (along with the primary caregivers) via activities such as pair and group play, sharing, empathy, turn-taking, etc.
Full S.T.E.A.M Ahead— An integrated science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics curriculum designed to develop essential foundational knowledge and skills necessary for academic success. Toddlers develop number sense and mathematical understanding of shapes, patterns, and counting through one-on-one time and group play and engineering through play with building blocks and stackable objects. Toddlers further their technological skills through educational applications installed on tablets.
* Our Soft Spot Nourish & Care™ method and Fontanelle Foundations™ curriculum are aligned with the National Early Childhood Program Accreditation (NECPA) Standards and the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards for Licensed Child Care Centers for educational curricular content, safety, security, and cleanliness.
