Toddler 2 Program

By completion of the Toddler 2 program the children will learn the following skills...

Twenty Four to Thirty Six Months

Emotional Development

  •  Identify and deal with feelings and emotions appropriate to developmental level
  •  Engage in experiences that lead to success, building a positive sense of self worth
  •  Express emotions both negative and positive
  •  Show independence and accomplishing tasks on their own
  •  Realize their own skills
  •  Show appropriate actions with feelings

Social Development

  •  Learn to take turns, share and play cooperatively, most of the time
  •  Assisting with tasks of cleaning up, passing out things, and helping others
  •  Recognize emotions in others
  •  Understand "mine" and "yours"

Physical Development

Gross Motor
  •  Catch, throw, bounce, and kick a ball (left or right)
  •  Execute climbing on, over, and under objects
  •  Perform simple motor skills such as stand on one foot, walk evenly, run, jump in place, forward, and from short height

Fine Motor

  •  Established hand preference (left or right)
  •  Touch, see and label various textures
  •  Assisting with dressing and undressing themselves
  •  Demonstrate eating properly with a spoon and cup
  •  Able to scribble with markers, crayons, chalk and pencils

Cognitive Development

Concept Development

  •  Being in the process of or have completed toilet training
  •  Assist with preparation of daily routines
  •  Begin to make their own classification
  •  Reason from effect to cause
  •  Understand some directional words (up, down, behind, over and under)
  •  Understand concepts of some, more, gone, big, now, soon, before and after
  •  Use and focus on one attribute (red car)
  •  Begin to classify and label objects
  •  Use demonstrative naming of objects, point to and label objects, associating the object and word
  •  Think one action is like another action

Oral and Written Language

  •  Speak in two and three word sentences (sometimes larger)
  •  Use recurrence in their speech
  •  Use plurals correctly and incorrectly (e.g. foots) and use past tense (e.g. he hitted the ball)
  •  Omit function words in their speech
  •  Use words differently at different times

Reading Readiness

  •  Learn word order
  •  Select and listen to stories and "read" picture story books
  •  Enjoy picture books and story books child has selected
Creative Kids Club
90 S.Commerce Way, Bethlehem, PA 18017-8618
Phone:(610) 868-3533
Fax:(610) 866-7706
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