Toddle Time & 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 through moving, 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, role play & Puppets
- Classroom application of chapel lesson
Special Events
- Music & Movement
- Class holiday parties
- Special school days (P.J., Dress Up, Pet, etc.)
- Live Nativity
- Christmas Pageant
- Consignment Sale
- Guest Presenters
- Carnival Day
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