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TODDLER/TWOS PROGRAM (12 MONTHS - 2 1/2 YEARS)

Interest centers you will see in this room include:

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  • Dramatic Play - developing social and emotional skills

  • Library/listening - stimulating language and communication

  • Creative Art - encouraging innovation, creativity, and learning

  • Gross Motor - encouraging the use of large muscles to help teach balance and coordination

  • Manipulative - developing fine motor control by stacking, scribbling, cutting, etc.

  • Discovery - encouraging children to explore their world using their senses

  • Blocks - stimulating fine motor and large motor skills, eye-hand coordination, as well as laying a foundation for math concepts (shapes and relationships)

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In this room you'll see toddlers:

  • Learning as they play learning the rules of playing together using new words

  • Asking questions

  • Pretending

  • Working on ideas about right and wrong

  • Learning to share

In this room you'll see the teachers:

  • Arranging for play

  • Helping children solve problems

  • Making learning fun reading stories singing songs

  • Using simple, consistent rules

  • Praising and encouraging accepting and reassuring

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OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM

  • Children will learn about primary colors (red, yellow, and blue). Later they will learn the secondary colors (green, orange, and purple.

  • They will be exposed to shapes (circle, square, rectangle and triangle).

  • They will practice jumping and hopping on two feet and later one foot. They will practice walking forward, backward, up, and downstairs, and balancing.

  • They will practice throwing, rolling, and catching balls.

  • They will learn parts of the body, their names, and what they do.

  • They will learn about rain and sunshine.

  • They will learn "position" words such as over/under, in/out, up/down, around/through.

  • They will pretend and role play being mommies, daddies, community helpers, etc.

  • Children enjoy listening to and singing songs. They like to dance and exercise.

  • They love to create, whether it's pretending, performing, or painting.

  • They love and need self-expression. Children will learn about seasons, holidays, and other weekly themes that toddlers love to do while learning and having fun!

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