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The Lil Guys Twos (2 Year Olds)

Our primary focus for this group of Lil’ Guys Two’s can be summarized by the following goals related to skill sets:

  • Increase ability to participate in a structured, but play-based, setting.
  • Increase ability to confidently separate from Mommy and Daddy and fully participate in fun and engaging activities without worry or concern
  • Increase language skills by building a greater vocabulary ,increase the grammatical complexity of language structure, include more adjectives, verbs and early conceptual language vocabulary.
  • Begin to establish early foundation skills in core knowledge areas such as colors, letters, numbers, phonemic awareness as a precursor to pre-literacy tasks in the Three’s Program, large motor skill sets as an early precursor to pre-writing skills in the Three’s Program, social boundaries, peer awareness and parallel play, and expression of self to others.
  • Expand “time on task” skills to support greater sustained attention.
  • Encourage task persistence for novel play and other directed activities.
  • Through play-based activities, begin to increase body awareness and body confidence through gross motor (large muscle) activities that encourage greater coordination, timed and sequential movement to music and skill exploration in a park or our gym setting.
  • Challenge mastery of skill sets in a variety of contexts with a variety of staff members.
  • Develop a healthy regard for learning and exploration of ideas
  • Support the idea of character and friendship through teacher modeling.
  • Begin to facilitate the child’s ability to label their emotions and verbally (versus physically) negotiate the world.

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