2-Year-Old Program

Our 2’s class is designed to provide our youngest nursery students with a secure and caring environment that will make their first steps away from home, both safe and comfortable.

This program of gently structured educational play includes:

• Circle time
• Music
• Story time
• Snacks
• Cooking
• Creative arts and crafts
• Indoor/outdoor play
• ...all done in a supportive and loving way!

Social and Emotional Objectives for the 2’s:

• To deal effectively with separation issues while developing a sense of security.
• To begin to develop sharing and interacting skills with peers by moving from parallel play to group activities.
• To foster awareness of other people’s feelings.
• To begin to develop self-respect and a positive self-image through positive role-modeling.
• To understand the concept of “setting limits” as part of learning self-control.
• To learn to make simple transitions from one activity to another while following the classroom routine.
• To practice using proper and simple manners, i.e. “please, thank you, you’re welcome,” and taking turns on a regular basis, with an emphasis on learning to cooperate.
• To introduce the concept of personal hygiene.
• To make the child’s first preschool experience fun and meaningful while engaging in a positive manner with other children and adults outside of the home environment.

Cognitive and Language Development Objectives for the 2’s:

• To develop decision-making skills through a variety of learning experiences.
• To respond to simple directions, including classroom rules.
• To understand a daily routine as a part of overall life skills.
• To recognize and identify common objects.
• To rote count to ten.
• To recognize and identify primary and secondary colors.
• To recognize and identify basic shapes.
• Initial discovery of alphabet A, B, C’s.

Fine and Gross Motor Skills Objectives for the 2’s:

To achieve eye-hand coordination through coloring...

• Building with Lego​​​​​​​s and blocks
• Playing with Play-Doh
• Painting
• Tearing
• Stirring.