Two Year Old Class
The Year of Introducing...

Children learn through play.  Our goal is to provide a fun classroom environment filled with a variety of  hands-on learning activities.  Our units and daily   activities create an environment rich in language and social skills that build on self-esteem and fostering independence to prepare your child for the next step in their educational journey.

Social / Emotional

• Separation from parents
• Adjustment to  school
  
• School routine/classroom rules
  
• Trusting a new care giver
  
• Using verbal vs. non-verbal
  
• Listening/following directions
  
• Individual and group activities
  
• Sharing and taking turns
  
• Safety/boundaries
  
• Caring for others
  
• Kind and appropriate language and actions
  
• Respect for self, friends and staff
  
• Understanding cause & effect
  
• Manners /eating
  
• Fire and tornado drills
  
• Appropriate behavior with large group activities and guest presenters
  
• Making choices
  
• Making friends
  
• Cleaning up after oneself
  
• Toileting with assistance/ Potty training

Fine / Large Motor Skills

• Fine motor manipulative
• Art (gluing, coloring, painting, stamping)
  
• Stacking/Building
  
• Puzzles, large pegs, beginning lacing
  
• Outdoor play (running, swinging,  climbing)
• Sandbox, pouring, measuring, sifting
  
• Music with large motor activities

Academic

• Colors
  
• Shapes/Sizes
  
• Real vs. Pretend
  
• Opposites
  
• Intro to nursery rhymes
  
• Alphabet songs and letters
  
• Name recognition begins
  
• Introductions to numbers and counting
  
• Introduction to patterns
  
• Sequencing
  
• Vocabulary expansion
  
• Recall/Memory
  
• Proper pronunciation/Grammar
  
• Intro to Spanish vocabulary and grammar 

Science

• Senses
• Weather
  
• Seasons
  
• Hot/Cold
  
• Animals
  
• Insects
  
• Colors/Rainbow
  
• Sink/Float
  
• Scales (heavy and light)

Art

• Creative expression
  
• Exploration of art materials and paints
  
• Step-by-step crafts
  
• Exploration of color
  
• Fine motor eye to hand coordination

Music

• Listens and responds to music throughmoving, singing and playing
  
• Singing, memorizing words and rhythms
  
• Manipulate objects, balls, beanbags while moving

Christian Education

• Bible Verses
  
• Prayers (spoken & sung)
  
• Bible Stories
  
• Chapel stories acted out by children
  
• Classroom application of chapel lesson
  

Special Events

• Music & Movement
  
• Class holiday parties
  
• Harvest Day Fun
  
• Special school days (hat, pet, etc.)
  
• Christmas Pageant
  
• Guest Presenters
  
• Fun Week