2 Year Olds
We know two year olds are active, curious, and creative! Our classroom has age-appropriate materials to allow your two-year-old to safely learn and explore. Each day your child will be engaged in numerous activities, which lead to developmental growth, examples include:
Small motor skill activities include experimenting with play-doh, stringing beads, lacing activities, cutting paper with toddler safe scissors, building with blocks and legos, etc.
Large motor skill activities include games that teach hopping, jumping, skipping, galloping, somersaults, and basic tumbling.
Cognitive development skills include a full preschool program for two, three, and four-year-olds
Social skills include games in which children learn how to work as a team and with partners, playing games that introduce working together- parachute games, hide and seek, red rover, london bridge, ring around the rosies, etc.
Storytime includes stories read from books, and stories told with puppets or props. Stories also include child participation; teaching memory skills and sequencing techniques.
Drama includes games in which children get to use their imaginations and pretend to be different animals or characters. We also use dress-ups and props to help enhance children’s growing imagination.
Art uses an array of materials for the children to create fun paintings and crafts to take home and share with the family.
Music awareness includes several areas of learning- Singing, finger play songs, musical instruments, tapping sticks, etc.
Dancing and moving to various genres of music (classical, country, modern) using props such as ribbons, bells, and scarves.
Games that teach awareness of 3 and 4 count rhythms.
Creating musical instruments to march in a marching band