We know that the best environment and curriculum for toddlers encourages independence and early development of self-esteem, decision-making, and exploration in a safe and supportive environment.

Our Toddler Spanish Immersion Program utilizes creative learning areas and an environment-based curriculum we developed to meet the needs of toddlers. We give special consideration to our classroom arrangement for 16-month-olds to 33 months and select appropriate educational materials, equipment and age-appropriate activities that encourage learning at each stage of early development for toddlers.

The toddler learning areas are clearly defined and labeled to help your toddler understand that materials and equipment have a special place. Each interest area reflects the monthly theme in our Spanish immersion program with enrichments that build on your toddler’s developing interests and abilities.

• Language Development :

Language development is a critical part of child development. It supports your child’s ability to communicate, express and understand feelings. It also supports thinking and problem-solving, and developing and maintaining relationships.

• Play and Cognitive Development:

Play is vital for your toddler’s cognitive development – that is, your child’s ability to think, understand, communicate, make memories, imagine and work out what might happen next. This is because play is one of the main ways that your child explores the world at Rayito de Sol!

• Fine Motor Skills Development:

Fine motor skills development involves the use of the smaller muscle of the hands, commonly in activities like using pencils, scissors, construction with lego or doing activities with recycling materials.

Fine motor skill efficiency significantly influences the quality of the task outcome as well as the speed of task performance. Efficient fine motor skills require a number of independent skills to work together to appropriately manipulate the object or perform the task, at Rayito de Sol we help your toddler develop progressively his/her fine motor skills!

• Gross Motor Skills Development:

Gross Motor Skills development involves the larger, stronger muscle groups of the body. In early childhood, it is the development of these muscles that enable the toddler to walk, run and skip, At Rayito de Sol we provide activities throughout the day where your toddler is exposed daily to help him/her gross motor age appropriated development.

• Socio affective Development :

Toddlers experience, express and perceive emotions before they fully understand them. In learning to recognize, label, manage, and communicate their emotions and to perceive and attempt to understand the emotions of others, Rayito de Sol helps to build skills that connect them with family, peers, teachers, and the community in a diverse and loving environment.

Ages: 16 months to 33 months

Program timeline: Year-round