Toddler Program

The Montessori toddler teachers enjoy creating fun, meaningful environments that respect the children's request,
"Let me do it myself!"

Let me do it myself! Me do it! Mine! These are common words from young toddlers. They are eager to explore, touch, and move. They use their senses, move their bodies, and begin problem-solving to understand the world around them. They seek information about everything they see, touch, and taste. They learn by doing and imitating what they observe. They are impatient to do things their way. The MSS Montessori toddler teachers delight in observing and designing activities for our toddlers during this magical time.

Maria Montessori was one of the first educators to recognize the beginning years of a child's life as critical to personality and intellectual development. She found that toddlers actively seek information, learn quickly and easily, and are especially interested in demonstrating independence. Toddlers begin the process of understanding and responding to social cues. They enjoy parallel play and develop a concept of space.

Montessori Toddler Curriculum

The Montessori Toddler curriculum is designed to enhance the development of skills and interests of this age. The classroom design allows children the freedom to choose, practice, and explore with responsive, individualized attention from the teachers to help build sensory perceptions, care of self, language, movement, and social and emotional growth, grace and courtesy, and control. The routines of everyday living are the foundation of the Montessori toddler environment.
Activities Promote Independence

Activities found throughout the environment promote independence, order, coordination, concentration and support social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development. Based on daily observations, teachers introduce new materials and activities that increase curiosity and stimulate learning. The learning objectives for toddlers include developing skills in language, concentration, problem-solving, visual discrimination, and physical coordination.
Toddlers Thrive in a Bilingual Environment

The MSS Montessori toddler environments strengthen children’s attention span, understanding relationships with others, and help them become connected people within the community. They build their cognitive function by observing and doing and apply new skills to each situation. They create the foundations for mathematical comprehension through early quantity and number concepts, including filling and emptying, putting in and taking out, taking things apart, and putting things back together.
Talented Toddler Teachers

The talented toddler teachers assist children to communicate their feelings and help them find words to express their emotions. During this developmental stage, a highlight for toddlers is the development of listening skills and improving communication through gestures and language. Toddlers explore with great interest the nuances of language and learning how to communicate in Chinese and English by learning vocabulary related to their daily needs, repeating what they hear spoken in the classroom, and modeling adults at home.
Teachers Partner with Parents

Teachers encourage parents to become thinking partners in the understandings and guidance of their children. They share insights about child development, help parents understand ways to allow children to become more independent at home, and prepare the home environment in child and adult-friendly ways. Parents communicate regularly at drop-off, pick-up, via email, and through the school communication channels.

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child
and is not acquired by listening to words but by
experiences in the environments."

- Maria Montessori

Infant

All About Me

6-18Months

Early Childhood

Exploration and Discovery

Entrance Age: 18 months
Locations: West Hongqiao, Xuhui, Minhang

The Montessori toddler teachers enjoy creating fun, meaningful environments that respect the children's request,
"Let me do it myself!"

Montessori Toddler Curriculum

Activities Promote Independence

Toddlers Thrive in a Bilingual Environment

Talented Toddler Teachers

Teachers Partner with Parents

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child
and is not acquired by listening to words but by
experiences in the environments."

Infant

6-18Months

Early Childhood

3-6Years Old

Educational Network :

Toddler Program

Entrance Age: 18 monthsLocations: West Hongqiao, Xuhui, Minhang

The Montessori toddler teachers enjoy creating fun, meaningful environments that respect the children's request, "Let me do it myself!"

Montessori Toddler Curriculum

Activities Promote Independence

Toddlers Thrive in a Bilingual Environment

Talented Toddler Teachers

Teachers Partner with Parents

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child and is not acquired by listening to words but by experiences in the environments."

Infant

6-18Months

Early Childhood

3-6Years Old

Educational Network :

Entrance Age: 18 months
Locations: West Hongqiao, Xuhui, Minhang

The Montessori toddler teachers enjoy creating fun, meaningful environments that respect the children's request,
"Let me do it myself!"

"Education is a natural process carried out by the child
and is not acquired by listening to words but by
experiences in the environments."