Toddler Program

The toddler program for 18-24 months to 3 years focuses on teaching empathy, sharing, role-playing, and the development of good listening and communication skills. The children also develop social and self-help skills in a warm and encouraging environment.

Children, teachers, and parents participate in potty-training to help transition out of diapers.

Music is an important part of the toddlers' day. Singing songs and poems with creative movement helps children learn language while expressing themselves physically; they also develop an understanding of pitch, rhythm, and movement.

Practical life activities such as sorting, pouring, and manipulating are daily activities for the children. Our art program is exceptionally rich and exciting. Children learn to work with different media (water colors, tempera, collage, pastels, etc) by fully exploring each of them such that they are able to understand how each looks and feels. Art projects are not product driven, rather the richness of the experience is in the journey itself.

"When I found Golestan, I was impressed with the thoughtfulness of the program design, the careful attention to how each detail fosters the children's development, and the pure joy that I witnessed from both the children and teachers at the school."