Pre-K

The sensory gymnasium is every child’s favourite space at Toddler’s Den. It is filled with open-ended and structured challenges that change every week. Children strengthen physical skills and social skills as they walk on balancing beams, wobble on river stone gonges, fall on crash mats, climb on rock walls, jump under parachutes, ride scooters, swing on ziplines, and hang on wallbarz.

Toddler’s Den is equipped with 3 types of outdoor spaces - active, social, and experimental. In the active play area, children have access to open-ended play equipment where they develop their gross-motor skills through playing football, cycling, crawling and climbing on mounds. The outdoor social area is an interactive and collaborative space with a sand pit, water tub and a pretend play area. In the experimental outdoor area, children experiment with materials that evoke their multiple senses.

In literacy, children start with a phonics program that promotes their oral and reading skills as well as build their writing skills through several art and pre-writing explorations. In math, children learn counting, measurement, patterns, geometry, and data handling. The areas are well equipped with light tables, mirror tables, montessori materials and children learn by playing, making, drawing, recording, and solving.

The Art and Design Station has easels, tables and mirror tables for engaging in various kinds of visual art activities such as sketching, painting, creating illustrations, cartoon-making, and texture-making. Children are not limited to traditional tools and techniques but instead have access to a range of natural and synthetic art tools such as rollers, stamps, sponges, steel scales, leaves, stems, and many varieties of paper.

The reading station is a cozy nook filled with pillows, plush characters, and couches. Storybooks of all genres including science, numeracy, social world, imagination, and emotional intelligence are hosted in this center. Children engage in reading individually or in pairs, listening to read-alouds and performing plays with peers. The reading station also acts as a reef of calm where children can escape the hustle and bustle of the classroom.

Children this age start utilizing their senses to examine, discover, categorize, and interpret the materials presented to them. From observers they turn into scientists, creating hypothesis about each material, its properties, and its purpose. This station hosts a water and sand table, a sensory table with different touch and feel materials, and a sensory wall. Children use these materials to test several theories by experimenting with them.

Our block station is equipped with sturdy and child-friendly blocks of different sizes, shapes, and characteristics such as magnetic blocks, lego blocks, spiral blocks, foam materials, wooden unit blocks, linkers, and miniature models. Using all of these materials, children imagine, tinker, and recreate their thoughts and interpretations of the world here.

The pretend play station is complete with a kitchen, a dining table, a hospital, mirrors, costumes, and props. Children spin their own tales or recreate experiences they’ve seen or read. Dramatic play helps children make sense of their world by translating their abstract thoughts into concrete actions. Children build their social interaction skills and learn to use various tools by spending time in this area.