We feel children learn most effectively through play and repetition, and have developed our curriculum around this concept of active learning.
2 year old developmental targets:
- Self select play activities to support own curiosity and engage in pretend and imaginative play
- Identify a problem and try to solve it
- Play with a favorite toy, repeating actions over and over
- Show an emerging sense of self
- Play beside other children for several minutes, respond to other children’s feelings
- Understand questions, simple directions, beginning concepts and the ideas and sequence of stories
- Produce speech that is increasingly understandable by most familiar adults
- Begin to understand the connection between books and personal experiences
- Use a variety of writing tools to make scribbles
- Begin to count by rote
- Build knowledge of world through observation of surroundings
- Show need for familiar adult’s approval.
- Enjoy moving to and singing to music.
- Show coordination skills while moving around and engaging in play activities.
- Demonstrate eye-hand coordination while manipulating and exploring objects
3 year old developmental targets
- Demonstrate ability to act out more complex pretend play scenarios.
- Work at a task or activity for longer periods of time.
- Verbalize feelings, needs and wants.
- Begin to demonstrate an understanding of social expectations.
- Show increasing willingness to work out problems with peers.
- Show awareness that print conveys a message, that print is read rather than pictures
- Attempt to “write” own name
- Explores and begins to sort and classify objects.
- Begin to demonstrate understanding of time, length, weight, capacity and temperature
- Build understanding of reasoning skill and imagination when planning ways to make things happen
- Understand sequencing and time in relation to daily routines.
- Observe, predict, and solve problems based on prior knowledge and experiences and describe how
4 – 5 year old developmental targets
- Actively engage in play as means of exploration & learning
- Actively engage in problem solving
- Demonstrate Persistence
- develop positive relationships with peers
- Understand and follow rules and routines
- Phonics and Word Recognition
- Demonstrate the ability to recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a familiar text read aloud,
- Count, Compare numbers, addition and subtraction
- Demonstrate awareness of different cultures
- Ask questions & make predictions
- Create artistic works with intent and purpose
- Engage in music activities
- Demonstrate awareness of spatial boundaries
- Demonstrate coordination and control of large muscles
- Demonstrate eye-hand coordination and dexterity needed to manipulate objects