Our Toddler Classroom
An action-packed day full of fun and purposeful play helps toddlers develop Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts®. We know 1-year-olds are constantly on the move, exploring and learning through play at every turn. Primrose teachers use that energy and enthusiasm to foster cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills through engaging games and activities.
Nurturing Active Minds, Healthy Bodies, and Happy Hearts
Active Minds
- Language & LiteracyLanguage & Literacy
Your toddler’s oral language grows exponentially between 1 and 2 years of age! During this time, your child begins to understand the back-and-forth nature of conversation and recognizes voices, sounds and the playfulness of language. Developing language and literacy skills sets the stage for a lifetime of learning.
- Science, Technology & EngineeringScience, Technology & Engineering
Young children are born with curiosity and the ability to use their senses to explore how the world works and to discover their role in it. Toddler classrooms are full of developmentally appropriate toys, and teachers help extend this learning by engaging your child in new experiences.
- MathematicsMathematics
Your toddler is forming mathematical concepts long before they’re learning numbers. They’re recognizing spatial relationships like over and under and they’re understanding simple ways to classify objects, like by size. The toddler classroom is full of developmentally appropriate toys, and teachers help extend this learning by encouraging your child to try new experiences.
- Social StudiesSocial Studies
Your toddler is learning about the people in their immediate surroundings and how to interact kindly and respectfully with others. Teachers help your child learn about others through books, images and scenarios with the Primrose Friends puppets.
Healthy Bodies
- Thumbs Up!: Physical DevelopmentThumbs Up!: Physical Development
Your toddler is naturally active, and active children are more likely to become active adults. The Balanced Learning® curriculum provides your child with many opportunities each day to enhance their fine motor and large motor skills through a variety of individual and small group activities.
- Health & Safety
- Balanced Menus: NutritionBalanced Menus: Nutrition
Teachers use sign language to encourage toddlers to express their food needs and preferences as well as communicate when they are finished eating. The tasty and nutritious food they enjoy is cut into small pieces, and the teachers talk about the food items being eaten.
Happy Hearts
- Character Development & Life SkillsCharacter Development & Life Skills
We believe who children become is as important as what they know. That’s why toddler teachers use books, music, activities and more to help your child understand concepts like sharing, kindness and generosity.
- Social SkillsSocial Skills
For children to show kindness and compassion to others, they need to feel it themselves. That’s why Primrose school teachers strive to make each child feel valued and included by using books and activities that foster a sense of belongingness in their classrooms.
- Early Art Masters: Creative Arts & ExpressionEarly Art Masters: Creative Arts & Expression
Visual and creative arts stimulate your child’s imagination and critical-thinking skills, which help in other areas of learning and development. Your toddler will listen and move to music, explore the arts and express themselves creatively.
Our Toddler Classroom Teachers & Staff
Alyssa Gomez
Education: Pursuing Family & Child Science Degree
Hometown: Glencoe, New Mexico
Started with Primrose: May 2024
Childcare Experience: Since 2020
Favorite Food: Pasta
Favorite Hobby: Reading, drawing, painting, and cooking
Favorite Children’s Book: Tad and Dad
Primrose Character I Most Relate To: Og the Bookworm – Reading & Caring
What Makes Me Smile: My daughter and watching the sun go down over the lake
Lusi Hammond
Education: Business Management – University of Taruna Bakti
Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia
Started with Primrose: April 2007
Childcare Experience: Since 1999
Favorite Food: Chinese food
Favorite Hobby: Reading
Favorite Children’s Book: I Love You Through and Through by B R Shustak
Primrose Character I Most Relate To: Percy the Rooster – Courage
What Makes Me Smile: Being around the children, family, and friends
Jayla Pirtle
Education: High School
Hometown: Russellville, Kentucky
Started with Primrose: August 2024
Childcare Experience: Since 2024
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite Hobby: Shopping
Favorite Children’s Book: The Rainbow Fish
Primrose Character I Most Relate To: Billy the Duck – Keeping Promises
What Makes Me Smile: Seeing the smiles of others
Paige Sumners
Education: Hendersonville High School
Hometown: Hendersonville, Tennessee
Started with Primrose: January 2019
Childcare Experience: Since 2015
Favorite Food: Chicken
Favorite Hobby: Shopping
Favorite Children’s Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Primrose Character I Most Relate To: Mia the Mouse – Citizenship
What Makes Me Smile: My family & students