"Toddlers are developing their identities as autonomous learners and rapidly building their physical, social, cognitive, and language abilities. They need many opportunities to engage in rich and rewarding experiences with people, places, and things"

Our responsive playgroup program, designed for children aged 18 to 30 months, is the first independent adventure for children. The program is designed to encourage the growth of independence, social awareness, sensory skills, and language acquisition in children. The group meets for 2.5 hours everyday from Monday to Friday.

Day in the Life

Start of the day

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Welcome and Free Play


Children are welcomed into a warm, beautifully set-up classroom filled with energizing music. Through play and social interactions, children channelize their energies and settle into the environment.

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Circle Time


Circle time is a daily routine that energises children and fosters a sense of community. As part of the circle time, children engage in yoga exercises, poem sing-alongs, storytelling, and discussions on unit specific things.

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Station time


Station time is planned by educators to provide children with opportunities to build skills, and pique their curiosity in different areas. Educators design 3 to 4 stations centred around sensory exploration, fine motor skills, read-alouds, art and design explorations, music, and pretend-play.

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Sensory or Outdoor Play


Play group children spend 30 minutes everyday in the indoor gym or the outdoor play area participating in activities focused on strengthening their physical skills - activities include obstacles courses, ziplining, and tumbling.

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Snack time


Snack time is an opportunity for educators to model healthy food habits and discuss different types of foods being eaten in the class.

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Reflection Time


After an exhausting and eventful day, children and educators gather to recollect their energy and experiences. Reflection time is an opportunity to discuss the activities of the day, participate in storytelling, or sing unit-specific rhymes.

The Bell Goes Off

Learning Spaces

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Sensory Gym

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.

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Outdoor Play Spaces

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 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.

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Art and Design Station

The art and design station, equipped with easels and traditional chabudai, allows children to engage with a range of tools and materials to explore textures and create expressive arts and crafts. Children explore a range of paints such as powder, poster, acrylic, dye, tablet, and oil paints and tools such as stamps, sponges, and brayer rollers.

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Sensory Station

Interesting wall and interactive installations as well as natural, synthetic, and montessori materials are a part of this station. These sensory experiences are an opportunity for children to express their emotions and interests. Designed to deepen a child’s conceptual understanding of the world, this station allows children to immerse in smelling and tasting experiences, listening activities, and touch and feel games.

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Block Station

Equipped with child-friendly blocks of different sizes, shapes, and textures, this station encourages children to tinker and recreate their thoughts and interpretations of the world. Educators encourage children to build and talk about their creations and help support language and physical development. Children get to play with lego blocks, tube blocks, spiral blocks, 3D and 2D puzzles, foam blocks, magnetic blocks and much more.

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Storytime Station

The Storytime Station is a reef of imagination and calm in the classroom. Here, children have access to age-appropriate books that need little to no adult supervision such as texture books and picture books. Read-alouds are a central part of this station and help children build their vocabulary and their understanding of the world. Educators use music and movement to support children in their pronunciation of simple words.

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Pretend Play Station

Pretend play helps children make sense of their world by enacting their abstract thoughts into concrete actions. This station is furnished with props and costumes that can be used to recreate various settings such as a kitchen, a wash area, a shop, a hospital, or a restaurant. Children enact scenarios that they have witnessed, participated in, or imagined.

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Music Station

At this station, children have access to a wide variety of age-appropriate musical instruments, including keyboards, string instruments, wind and brass instruments, and percussion instruments. They experiment with making sounds by shaking, banging, and plucking materials. They slowly understand loudness, tempo, and basic rhythm which further cognitive development.