Our primary goal for this group of Lil’ Guys 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 core vocabulary typically using nouns and core phrases such as “I want…” , “More_____ , please.”
- Begin to establish confidence in early language skills, ideas such as cause and effect, verbal negotiation, and early primary knowledge such as colors, numbers, environmental sound identification, large motor skill related to class songs and music, social 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.
- Facilitate consistent use of language in a variety of contexts with a variety of staff members.
- Develop a healthy participation in play activities.
- Develop a sense of pride at accomplishments 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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