Life Essential at Home
Early-Preschool - 2 years old
About Our 2-Year-Old Early Preschool
At Star Choice Academy, we encourage our 2-year-olds’ natural desire to explore and investigate by transforming each moment into an occasion for instruction and support.
Our program is intended to foster your child’s developing uniqueness through our fully designed learning opportunities and group activities.
Strict health and safety regulations will be observed.
You can relax knowing that your preschooler is in a safe and healthy environment while they’re at our Academy. Based on CDC recommendations, our improved health and cleaning program is intended to reduce coronavirus transmission.
Our early preschool program will give your 2-year-old a well-rounded education while receiving reassuring, loving care.
Questions? Answers.
What Will Your Child Be Doing?
- Toddlers are naturally curious and take great pleasure in doing things by themselves. Our trained teachers will help your early preschooler take advantage of our center-based learning classrooms to learn, explore, and develop at their own pace. In class, your child will work on and build their social-emotional skills, confidence, and motor skills and will be introduced to academic content in mathematics, science, and language arts.
What To Expect From Your Childcare
- Our compassionate teachers set a daily rhythm and schedule for your toddlers, including story time, group time, outdoor play, center play, meals, snacks and nap time, and especially lots of playtime. We understand how much learning happens when children are at play.
Why is Play Important?
- For your toddler, imagination begins to come to life. Play has a purpose in building a child's communicational skills and understanding the world and how they view it. Play is crucial for a child's development because it supports learning, socializing, creative problem-solving, and articulating emotions and thoughts when they cannot use words to express them.
Developmental Milestones
Hover over each bubble to see what most newborns do at this age.
Language Development
• Point to and name objects or pictures in book when they are named.
• Able to recognize names of objects, body parts, and familiar people.
• Able to use several single words independently or in sentences.
• Uses simple phrases to express thoughts, emotions, and needs.
• Understand and follow simple instructions and responding to simple questions.
• Able to recognize names of objects, body parts, and familiar people.
• Able to use several single words independently or in sentences.
• Uses simple phrases to express thoughts, emotions, and needs.
• Understand and follow simple instructions and responding to simple questions.
Social and Economic Development
• Able to mimic the behavior of others children and adults.
• Increasingly aware of themselves as being a separate individual from others.
• Demonstrate an increasing level of independence.
• Express feelings of separation anxiety toward parents, then this will eventually fade away.
• Develop social gestures through interaction and play with others and peers.
• Increasingly aware of themselves as being a separate individual from others.
• Demonstrate an increasing level of independence.
• Express feelings of separation anxiety toward parents, then this will eventually fade away.
• Develop social gestures through interaction and play with others and peers.
Cognitive Development
• Able to find objects even when hidden and under two or more covers.
• Investigates how things work through touch, sight and trying them out.
• Begins to sort objects by shapes, colors, and sizes.
• Follows two & three-step directions such as, “pick up your toys and put them in the basket.”
• Use imagination to play simple make-believe games.
• Able to complete simple sentences and familiar rhymes books.
• Investigates how things work through touch, sight and trying them out.
• Begins to sort objects by shapes, colors, and sizes.
• Follows two & three-step directions such as, “pick up your toys and put them in the basket.”
• Use imagination to play simple make-believe games.
• Able to complete simple sentences and familiar rhymes books.
Focus: Helping your child count, recognize patterns, and discover how our world works.
- We teach your 2-year-old basic math and science through hands-on activities that build on their natural curiosity about the world.
2-Year-Old Activities
- Following a recipe to make cornbread using simple math skills, like counting and measuring.
- Understanding how plants grow by planting grass seeds and caring for them until they sprout.
- Understanding how plants grow by planting grass seeds and caring for them until they sprout.
- Learning basic shapes, like circles and squares, by going on a scavenger hunt in the classroom for objects that look like these shapes.
Learn On®
- Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home. During bath time, investigate which toys float or sink in the water. Let your child help make a simple recipe, like cornbread, to practice simple math skills like counting and measuring. Plant and care for grass seeds to help your child understand how plants grow. Do a scavenger hunt at home and have your child find objects with basic shapes like triangles, squares and circles.
Focus: Helping your child control their feelings and behaviors.
- Our teachers create a patient, supportive environment for your 2-year-old to learn about themselves and forming relationships with others. Your child will participate in activities designed to help them understand trust, empathy, compassion and a sense of right and wrong.
2-Year-Old Activities
Playing cooperatively with other children by painting murals as a class and sharing blocks to build a house.
Pretending to have a picnic with classmates in the Dramatic Play center.
Discussing ways they can help their family at home through songs.
Discussing and celebrating accomplishments and learning about independence from books.
Learn On®
Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.
Sing “Help Around the House” and discuss ways your child can help with chores at home.
Read “I Can Do It Too!” and talk about ways your child can practice being independent.
Use blocks to build a house with your child so that they learn how cooperation helps make things happen.
Focus: Helping your child count, recognize patterns and discover how our world works.
- We teach your 2-year-old basic math and science through hands-on activities that build on their natural curiosity about the world.
2-Year-Old Activities
Feeding themselves with forks and spoons and learning to pour child-size pitchers during family-style meals.
Working on coordination by throwing and kicking balls and conquering obstacle courses on the playground.
Learning rhythm through dancing and musical activities.
Learning to do basic daily skills.
Learn On®
- Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home. During bath time, investigate which toys float or sink in the water. Let your child help make a simple recipe, like cornbread, to practice simple math skills like counting and measuring. Plant and care for grass seeds to help your child understand how plants grow. Do a scavenger hunt at home and have your child find objects with basic shapes like triangles, squares and circles.
Focus: Developing your child’s coordination and balance.
- Our teachers guide your 2-year-old through activities designed to help refine physical skills that utilize their small and large muscle groups.
2-Year-Old Activities
Feeding themselves with forks and spoons and learning to pour child-size pitchers during family-style meals.
Working on coordination by throwing and kicking balls and conquering obstacle courses on the playground.
Learning rhythm through dancing and musical activities.
Learning to do basic daily skills.
Learn On®
- Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home. Throw and kick balls outside to help work on coordination. Put on some music and dance with your child to help them learn about rhythmic motion. Have your child pick out and put on their clothes to learn to do basic daily skills like getting dressed.
