Montessori Toddler Curriculum

Hilltop's Toddler Curriculum includes Practical Life, Cognitive Skills, Motor Skills, Language Skills, Math Skills, Sensorial Skills, Science, Geography, Art, and Sign Language.

Motor Skills
The Toddler is refining both fine motor skills and gross motor skills.  Fine motor skills are heightened through practical life activities like pouring, sorting, etc.  Gross motor skills are heightened in physical activities like rhythm/music movement and outdoor play.

Specific Objectives for Toddler Motor Skills
1.00 Gross Motor Skills
     1.10 Major muscle development
          1.10.1 Walks a line
          1.10.2 Walks holding an object
          1.10.3 Walks on tiptoes
          1.10.4 Runs
          1.10.5 Jumps on 2 feet
          1.10.6 Climbs up and down stairs
          1.10.7 Walks backwards
          1.10.8 Hops on one foot
          1.10.9 Kicks ball forward
          1.10.10 Dances to music
     1.20 Upper body development
          1.20.1 Rolls an object forward
          1.20.2 Throws a small object
          1.20.3 Catches a small object
          1.20.4 Rolls and unrolls rugs
          1.20.5 Claps to music
     1.30 Whole body coordination
          1.30.1 Dances to music
          1.30.2 Rides and moves a wheel toy forward
2.00 Fine Motor Skills
      2.10 Beginning skills
          2.10.1 Does puts and takes
          2.10.2 Rolls and forms play dough
          2.10.3 Manipulates peg into pegboard
          2.10.4 Turns pages of a book
          2.10.5 Strings beads
          2.10.6 Puts objects in and out of a container
          2.10.7 Tugs, pulls, pushes, pounds
     2.20 Intermediate skills
          2.20.1 Draws on paper
          2.20.2 Colors with crayons (free expression)
          2.20.3 Paints with large brush
          2.20.4 Tears Paper
          2.20.5 Uses Sponges
     2.30 Advanced skills
          2.30.1 Colors within an outline
          2.30.2 Builds a 6-10 block tower
          2.30.3 Cuts with scissors
          2.30.4 Applies glue and creates collage
          2.30.5 Begins letter writing: tracing, independently