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Early-Preschool - 2 years old
About Our 2-Year-Old Early Preschool
At Star Choice Academy, we nurture every 2-year-old’s natural curiosity by transforming everyday moments into meaningful opportunities for learning, exploration, and growth.
Our thoughtfully designed program encourages each child’s unique personality, interests, and abilities through engaging learning experiences, purposeful play, and meaningful social interactions.
You can relax knowing that your preschooler is in a safe and healthy environment while they’re at our Academy. Our comprehensive health and sanitation protocols are designed to provide a clean, healthy, and safe learning environment for every child.
Our early preschool program will give your 2-year-old a well-rounded education while receiving nurturing, individualized 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 strengthen 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 including story time, group activities, outdoor play, learning centers, meals, snacks, rest time, and plenty of opportunities for purposeful play. 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 helps build a child's communication skills while developing their understanding of the world around them. 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
Children begin developing the early language and literacy skills that provide the foundation for future reading and writing. At this stage, they are learning to communicate more clearly, expand their vocabulary, enjoy books and stories, and recognize that spoken and written words have meaning.
Communication & Language Development
• Point to and name objects or pictures in book when they are named.
• Able to Recognizes 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 respond to simple questions.
• Able to Recognizes 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 respond to simple questions.
Social and Emotional Development
• Able to mimic the behavior of other children and adults.
• Increasingly aware of themselves as being a separate individual from others.
• Demonstrate an increasing level of independence.
• May experience separation anxiety when away from parents or caregivers, which typically decreases as children become more comfortable in their environment.
• 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.
• May experience separation anxiety when away from parents or caregivers, which typically decreases as children become more comfortable in their environment.
• 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.
• Completes familiar phrases in songs, rhymes, and stories.
• 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.
• Completes familiar phrases in songs, rhymes, and stories.
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.
- Our language and literacy experiences are designed to nurture a love of communication, books, and storytelling while building the foundational skills children need for future reading and writing. Throughout the day, children participate in interactive story times, songs, rhymes, dramatic play, conversations, and hands-on literacy activities that encourage listening, speaking, vocabulary development, and early print awareness. By creating a language-rich classroom where children are encouraged to ask questions, express ideas, and share their experiences, we help build confident communicators and enthusiastic learners.
2-Year-Old Activities
- Listen to interactive stories, songs, nursery rhymes, fingerplays, and poems that build listening, comprehension, and vocabulary skills.
- Explore books by identifying pictures, discussing characters, predicting what might happen next, and connecting stories to everyday experiences
- Participate in letter recognition, alphabet games, name activities, and print awareness experiences that introduce early literacy concepts.
- Engage in dramatic play, storytelling, and group discussions that encourage communication, self-expression, and imaginative thinking.
- Develop early writing skills through drawing, painting, tracing, scribbling, and other hands-on activities that strengthen fine motor control and encourage creative expression.
Learn On®
- Language development continues well beyond the classroom. Families can encourage early literacy by reading together every day, singing songs, telling stories, and engaging children in meaningful conversations during everyday routines. Talking while preparing meals, shopping, taking walks, or driving in the car introduces new vocabulary and helps children connect language to the world around them.
- Making books part of your daily routine and allowing your child to explore stories through conversation and imagination helps foster a lifelong love of reading and learning.
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.
