Toddler Plus

The Toddler Plus Program serves children aged 30 to 48 months, many of whom are already familiar with the Children's Center from having previously attended the Toddler program.

In Toddler Plus the maximum student-to-teacher ratio is six to one. The overall philosophy is similar to that of the Toddler program, with teachers intervening in the children's activities only to ensure safety and to provide guidance, comfort, assistance, and conflict resolution as needed.

However, Toddler Plus differs from the Toddler Program in that there is a more directed curriculum. Some recent monthly curricula have included Forest Animals; Dinosaurs; Plants and Gardening; and Sea Creatures.

But the primary focus, as in the Toddler Program, is to give children the freedom and opportunity to discover and pursue their own interests, while further exploring the challenges and rewards of working and playing together with other.

CCSLV is the only childcare center in the San Lorenzo Valley that offers hot breakfast and lunch. We also offer an afternoon snack.  All meals are served family-style.

Teachers

The Toddler Plus Program is staffed by experienced, trained, and highly qualified teachers who are dedicated to helping set young people on the road to becoming happy and inquisitive adults.

Ann Chandler Head Teacher		Louisa		Trish

    * Use their imagination, improvise, think flexibly, and explore new options
    * Make appropriate choices from among many possibilities
    * Solve Problems both with materials and people
    * Cooperate with other children in the creation of mutually   satisfying projects
    * Work through their feelings in creative non-destructive ways
    * Become more aware of their own real interests without being distracted with other possibilities and to say "yes" or "no"
    * Use something such as a dramatic action, a word, a toy, a set of blocks, or a collection of marks on paper, to represent something else- this sort of representation being essential to the process of learning to read.
    * See themselves as competent and interesting people with useful skills and good ideas.

                                  -Elizabeth Jones, Early Childhood Exchange

"It's so wonderful to have healthy meals supplied for the kids and my son enjoys eating with his friends"
-- CCSLV Parent