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Toddler 1 Program
By completion of the Toddler
1 program the children will learn the following skills...
Twelve to Eighteen Months
Emotional Development
- Express feelings and
emotions in behavior and language
- Recognize emotions in
others
- Use play to express
emotions and resolve conflicts
- Begin to understand and
learn right from wrong
- Expand independence
Social Development
- Begin to understand
only their own viewpoint (egocentric)
- Develop a concept of
self
- Enjoy playing games,
but mostly engage in parallel play
- The child will
occasionally share
- Use a variety of
behaviors to gain attention
- Act differently
towards different people
Physical Development
Gross Motor
- Begin to walk alone
- Child will be able to
raise self to a standing position
- Execute climbing up
and down the stairs and over objects with assistance
- Catch, throw, and roll
a ball
Fine Motor
- Use fine motor skills
that enable child to use thumb against fingers to grasp objects and
be able to reach objects accurately
- Begin to show hand
preference
- Execute carrying and
exchanging objects from hand to hand
- Use fine motor skills
that enable the child to scribble marks on paper with a crayon
- Perform simple motor
skills for feeding themselves using 'sippy cup', spoon and fingers
Cognitive Development
- Demonstrate pointing
to objects with finger
- Visually scan an area
for interesting stimuli
- Express food likes and
dislikes
- Investigate basic
cause and effect reasoning
- Experiment by using
trial and error to solve problems
- Explore various ways
things happen in their environment
- Copy the behaviors on
others around them
- Observe an object
being moved or taken away
Reading Readiness
- Identify familiar
pictures
- Respond to word and
gesture conversation
- Understand and respond
to many questions/commands that child is unable to say yet
- Use word
approximations for some words
- Use words in immediate
context
- Imitate sounds of
other people and objects
- Babble sentences and
words
- Repeat and practice
words
Eighteen to Twenty Four Months
Emotional Development
- View the internal
feelings and external behavior as the same
- Show one or more
emotions at the same time
- Identify and deal with
feelings and emotions appropriate to developmental level
- Becoming secure in
daily routines
- Changing feelings
about themselves
- Fantasies are
increasing in child's mind
Social Development
- Identifying materials
as belonging to oneself
- Using pronouns (I,
mine, me, and you)
- Expanding social
relationships
- Beginning to be aware
of other's feelings
- Imitating the tasks of
others
- Child will share and
engage in parallel play
- Assisting with tasks
of cleaning up
- Wanting to help
Physical Development
Gross Motor
- Perform simple
gymnastics (walking forward, backward, and sideways)
- Perform simple motor
skills (jumping with both feet, etc.)
- Catch, throw, roll,
and kick a ball (throw objects at target)
- Demonstrate walking up
and down the stairs (short series of steps)
- Push and pull objects
while walking
- Demonstrate climbing
on and over objects
Fine Motor
- Developing
finger muscles to grasp and release objects
- Perform simple motor
skills with control in feeding with a 'sippy cup' and spoon
- Increasing wrist
flexibility to shovel, scoop, and spoon
- Establishing hand
preference (right or left)
- Make individual marks
with a crayon, pencil, or marker
- Turn pages of a book
- Helping to dress and
undress themselves (zipper, snap, and button)
Cognitive Development
- Showing interest in or
ready for toilet training
- Explore various ideas
mentally to figure out solutions
- Observe an object
disappear, mentally remember the object, and figure out where it
went
- Imitating past events
- Using symbolic play to
resolve conflicts
- Pointing to and
labeling objects in environment
Reading Readiness
- Using language to
reflect own meaning and expect others to have the same meaning
- Expanding vocabulary
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