- Clean Classrooms: Includes a personal place for your child’s belongings, organized learning centers, disinfected toys and play areas, and child-sized sinks for washing hands
- Certified Teachers in: Infant/Child and Adult CPR, and First Aid
- Glass Walls: Unlike typical day care centers or childcare providers, our classrooms feature tempered glass walls for maximum visibility and safety. This promotes an open, bright atmosphere as well as a clean environment
- Safety Guard on Door Hinges: Our doors are padded at the hinges so that little fingers don’t get pinched when doors are opened and closed between classrooms
- Regular Drills for: Tornado, fire, hurricane and school lock-down
Our Toddler Childcare Program
We channel that boundless energy and tap into their natural curiosity to maximize their development during this exciting time
Available to children beginning at 12-months old
At Kids ‘R’ Kids of West Houston, we understand the unmatched energy and curiosity of toddlers. As such, we are confident our program fills their day wit challenging and engaging activities to build on previous knowledge and present them with new opportunities to grow.
Our Kids ‘R’ Kids of West Houston’s Toddler Program is kid-paced while still fostering important developmental skills and making learning fun!
What We Provide Our Busy Learners
- Building Language — We provide our toddlers an American Sign Language program, which has been shown to help with nonverbal and eventual verbal communication. Your child will be able to effectively communicate their needs with caregivers and peers, leading to more met needs and a more nurturing environment
- Stories and Songs — Entertaining stories coupled with a variety of silly, fun songs help your toddler’s imagination continue to grow while they learn those important skills needed for the next developmental level
- Creativity — Our classrooms are designed with imagination in mind. We offer age-appropriate learning centers for your toddler as they explore their abilities in music, art, early literacy, pretend play and more
- Fine and Gross Motor Skills — We know that an active body is a healthy body while playing indoors or outdoors on our large, age-separated play spaces. Whether a child is learning to walk, running at full speed, reaching for the monkey bars or simply tossing a ball to a friend, they will learn all about their body and celebrate accomplishments both great and small
- Social Interaction — When children enter the world of toddlerhood, they become more aware of the world around them. We understand the importance of friendship and cultivating harmonious relationships with teachers and peers. At Kids ‘R’ Kids, your toddler will learn how to have positive interactions, regardless of differences in nationality, religious belief, or cultural norms
Key Features of Our Toddler Childcare Program
At Kids ‘R’ Kids of West Houston, we believe laughter and play are essential components to learning. Our Toddler Childcare Program is filled with fun daily activities and lessons, creating a welcoming space for children to make friends while enjoying lots of laughter. It is supported by our highly-qualified and compassionate staff making Kids ‘R’ Kids an amazing place for your child to grow and thrive!
Safety
Security
- Electronic Security: Coded entry so only authorized visitors may enter the facility
- Hiring Process: All staff undergo extensive state-mandated background checks
- Front Desk: Our front desk is always staffed so that a watchful eye is supervising the facility, ensuring authorized entries only
- Security Cameras: Every classroom in our facility has security cameras that are monitored at the front desk. The owners and staff can easily observe classroom activities throughout each day. Families can login to a secure, password-protected website to check in on your child periodically
Meals
- Children eat all meals together using family-style seating in our kid-friendly café
- Teachers monitor all eating times
- Meals are prepared in our commercial-grade kitchen, which is kept separated from the classrooms
- Each day, our in-house chef prepares nutritious meals that exceed USDA guidelines
- All allergies are documented and kept in the front office with administrators
- Our school is a nut-free zone
Mrs. Martinez
“”My oldest was at Kids ‘R’ Kids of West Houston for 4 years! The teachers here are of the highest quality anywhere! They cared for my children like their own while also giving them the best academic foundation a parent could ask for. The owners and management are there at all times and deeply care about the quality of environment and education that they offer to their students.”
Brain & Cognitive Development
At the successful conclusion of our Toddler Program, your child will:
- Understand quantity and numbers identification
- Understand patterns, shapes, and mathematical problem solving
- Demonstrate an understanding of community, culture, ethnicity, and geography
- Demonstrate an awareness of our community
- Participate in dance, visual arts, voice and drama while exploring the use of instruments and objects to express creativity
Social & Emotional Development
With the aid of our highly skilled teachers, your child will:
- Develop self-awareness
- Engage in self-expression
- Demonstrate self-control
- Develop relationships and social skills with adults
- Develop relationships and social skills with peers
Physical Development
Through a blend of engaging activities both inside and outside of the classroom, your toddler will:
- Practice safe, healthy habits
- Participate in activities related to nutrition
- Demonstrate an awareness of the body in space and its relationship to objects in space
- Use senses to explore the environment and process information
- Develop gross motor skills
- Develop fine motor skills
Behavioral Development
Before moving on to our Preschool Program, we’ll ensure that your child:
- Demonstrates initiative and self-direction
- Demonstrates interest and curiosity
- Sustains attention to a specific activity and demonstrates persistence
- Engages in a progression of individualized and imaginative play
- Demonstrates a cooperative and flexible approach to play
Communication, Language & Literacy
By the successful conclusion of our Toddler Program, your child will:
- Listen to conversations and demonstrate comprehension
- Acquire vocabulary introduced in conversations, activities, stories, and/or books
- Use non-verbal communication for a variety of purposes
- Use increasingly complex spoken language
- Demonstrate increasing knowledge of the alphabet
- Demonstrate awareness of print concepts
- Use writing for a variety of purposes
- Acquire meaning from a variety of materials read aloud
- Develop early phonological awareness
Our Exclusive Big Steps Curriculum® for Toddlers
The Big Steps Curriculum® for toddlers continues to build on the big steps taken during infancy. Toddlers experience an environment that invites interaction with play materials within organized play spaces. This research-based, accredited program provides a structured learning plan developed for the busy, growing toddler.
The children practice literacy through sign language, books, puppet play, music, singing, games, and conversation with peers and adults. A child’s cognitive skills blossom with a multitude of activities designed to unleash their already inquisitive and creative nature.