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Program for 2 year olds: Programs for Children

Опубликовано: July 11, 2023 в 5:18 pm

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Two Year Olds – Hampshire Township Park District

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Program for Two Year Olds (24-36 months)

Two year olds are constantly exploring and have budding independence. Satisfying the curiosity of children at this age while introducing the basics of education, we strive to prepare your child for Preschool. Staff will focus on enriching the children with positive encouragement and support as they learn to share, to explore their world, and to build self-confidence in a classroom environment that focuses on building your child’s cognitive, emotional, social, and physical skills.  Daily planned activities include age-appropriate “hands on” learning, music activities, introduction to picture books, language development through songs and rhymes, hands on arts and crafts, working with their large and small motor skills and ample time given to play and rest. Each day children will engage in small and large group activities with games and activities to encourage investigation and problem solving, sorting, matching and categorizing, recognition of numbers and the alphabet letters while teaching counting and patterning.  Regular teacher-family communication will include daily updates to keep you informed of your child’s day.

Min/Max: 5/11 
Days:
M,T,W,TH,F 
Ages:
24 to 36 months
Non-refundable registration fee:
$125 for first child, $25 for each additional child  
Fee:
Based on fee schedule

Prior to admissions, parents are encouraged to attend an orientation and will be given specific instructions and guidelines regarding snacks, lunches, nap time, personal supplies and labeling of the supplies. During this orientation payment policy, facility calendar, drop off and pick up will be explained in detail.

Registration Items

WHAT DO I NEED TO REGISTER?

  • Registration is in person only at the 441 East Jefferson location but many forms can be found below
  • Non-refundable registration fee
  • Copy of child’s birth certificate OR Passport
  • Current medical record (no more than 6 months prior to start of classes) using the State of Illinois Certificate of Health Examination form.   Immunizations must include TB test and lead assessments
  • Completed Park District registration forms and signed waiver
  • Completed Park District emergency form
  • DCFS completed forms

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Developing Independent Learners

The world is a playground for active, energetic 2-year-olds. Channeling that enthusiasm into opportunities for growing, learning, building independence, and achieving success is the hallmark of this unique educational program. We offer our 2-year-old learners:

  • Exclusive curriculum for milestone development
  • Interactive, hands-on learning experiences
  • Variety of tactile learning materials

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Twos Classroom

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This immersive classroom environment offers plenty of room to move and excel, as children make discoveries and learn new things, while building a strong foundation for future learning success. Six distinct classroom areas keep children busy and engaged throughout the day.

Twos Classroom

Movement & Music Center

Jump, climb, dance, and develop gross motor skills in a safe space.

Twos Classroom

Language & Literacy Center

Reading, playing with puppets, and exploring early writing are all available in this cozy inviting classroom space.

Twos Classroom

Art & Science Center

Using art supplies, observation tools, and sensory materials (fabric, sand, water, etc.) allows children to investigate ideas and express themselves.

Twos Classroom

Pretend Center

Dress-up materials and clothes, accessories, furniture, and housekeeping items offer opportunities for collaborative, imaginative, make-believe play.

Twos Classroom

Block & Math Center

Children work with their hands, using blocks, trucks, puzzles, and more to experiment with objects and find new ways to do things.

Twos Classroom

“My Space”

At times, children need some alone time and this quiet, area gives them the chance to relax by themselves and enjoy some quality time.

Curriculum and Milestones

Milestone development in this program continues to be guided by our Learn from the Start™ curriculum, while learning experiences are designed to address the specific needs of this very mobile age group. Our focus is on achieving milestones in these five main developmental areas.

Approaches to Learning

Developing independence through exploring the world around them, and building problem-solving abilities.

Cognitive Development

Developing an understanding of their world, as they learn to think critically and creatively.

Language Development

Effective communication abilities are strengthened using sounds, expressions, body language, and finally, oral and written language; responding to and understanding others.

Physical Development

Learning to coordinate and control large and small muscle movements; building an understanding of health and safety concepts.

Social-Emotional Development

Developing an understanding of their own emotions and their relationships with others, such as family, friends and community members; learning to interact with others and developing self-awareness.

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developmental activities at home with mom, weekly plan

Developmental activities for children 2-3 years old play a big role in the further passage of the educational process. Properly constructed activities will help the child to more easily adapt among peers. Babies who are regularly engaged with at an early age are better trained and more creatively developed.

Basic principles of working with a child of 2 years old

Parents do not always have the opportunity to send their child to kindergarten from the age of two. In such cases, it is recommended to organize training and creative activities at home on your own. It is important to note that all exercises must be performed in a playful way. It is categorically impossible to force kids to do something without desire. In the future, this can completely discourage the desire to learn.

Lessons from 2 years old

Lessons for toddlers 2-3 years old are very easy to organize on your own. To do this, there are a huge number of educational games, didactic materials that allow you to diversify activities. Any lesson should be bright, interesting, deliver only positive emotions. Children immediately lose interest as soon as he realizes that he is being forced.

A two-year-old child and the peculiarities of his thinking

Psychologists say that the second year of life for children is a period of crisis. They begin to actively study the world around them, to realize the difficulties that it can bring them.

Note! The task of parents is to help the child to overcome the crisis period.

Parents often make a big mistake, believing that at the age of two it is not worth teaching a child anything, because he will not understand. But when they begin to educate him, it turns out that time has been lost. In the first five years of a child’s life, the foundations of education are laid. The most important years are 1.5-2.

At the age of two, the child should speak. Thanks to this, the development of his self-consciousness is accelerated. It is through verbal communication that he receives most of the information that is necessary for development. It is important for parents during this period to pay as much attention as possible to the formation of speech. At the age of one and a half years, the baby already knows how to call a spade a spade. By the age of two, he already develops the ability to combine up to three words into a phrase.

Important! When a child is in his third year, his visual-active thinking changes to visual-figurative. It differs in that all actions with material objects are replaced by images. The internal development of thinking is based on the formation of concepts.

By the end of the second year, children begin the period of “why-why”. The child becomes persistent, he demands an answer to the question posed. The attitude towards the received answer is already being expressed. At the age of three, the baby begins to see himself from the outside, he is already able to control his behavior.

Features of development

Developing activities at home with mom, exercises for every day

The task of parents is to spend as much time as possible with the child, to organize his leisure. First of all, you need to start classes with hand motility. It is necessary to captivate the baby with the construction of houses from cubes. You should start with the simplest shapes, gradually complicating them. It is important to constantly talk with children during the game, to explain each action. There must be praise.

Children between the ages of two and three show great interest in household chores. Don’t be discouraged from helping your mom. You can offer the crumbs to sweep or wipe the dust on their own. You should always offer your child to help their parents. If this is not done, at an older age you will have to force him.

Some parents prefer to hire professional nannies to take care of their children. This is a big mistake. A baby at an early age really needs to communicate with his mother. Any exciting game unites and brings parents and children closer. It is very useful to play with the whole family.

Important! It is recommended not just to select activities, but to focus on certain abilities of the child. It is best to alternate creative games with outdoor ones. It is important to observe the time of the classes, they should be no more than twenty minutes. It is still very difficult for children to concentrate on one subject for a long time.

Activities with mom

Developing baby’s speech

At two years old, a baby not only knows the name of an object, but also knows how to describe it. You need to develop his skills, describe color, size. It is important during this period to pay as much attention as possible to reading poems and fairy tales. You can arrange theatrical performances. At this age, children love not only to listen, but also to watch.

Closer to the age of three, when the child is able to make small sentences, you can ask him to complete the sentence while reading fairy tales. For example, pause while reading and invite the baby to finish the phrase on their own.

It is recommended to use facial expressions and body movements while reading and telling fairy tales. After each read fairy tale, you need to discuss it with the child. Let him express his opinion about the heroes. This will help develop memory and attention.

Important! It is necessary to put the speech correctly. Parents should remember that the child clearly repeats everything after the parents. In order for the baby’s speech to be correct, you need to control your manner of speaking.

You can find many manuals and books with rhymes that are designed to develop speech. They are often used for speech therapy classes. For example, kids are very fond of poems about animals. While reading, you can teach your child how this or that animal makes sounds. You can print colorful pictures with animals, show them to the baby and offer to tell how it talks.

Reading books

Hand coordination and motor skills

From the age of one and a half, babies begin to show interest in sensations. They are fond of their hands, they often examine them. During this period, the development of fine motor skills is important. It is important for parents to teach their child to manage their own hands correctly. All activities for the development of motor skills should include finger play. You can use entertaining rhymes, come up with your own story. Such activities will help develop coordination.

During this period, bodily contact with parents is very important for every child. You need to touch the baby’s hands more often, stroke the palms. When the nerve endings in the fingers are activated, the parts of the brain that are responsible for the speech apparatus begin to work intensively.

Note! For the development of fine motor skills, you can offer your child games with cereals, buttons. It is worth preparing a material that is different in texture. For example, a piece of leather fabric and fur. It is necessary to teach the child to compare objects according to sensations.

Sculpting plays an important role in the development of coordination and motor skills. You need to start with the simplest figures, invite the baby to roll up a sausage, a ball. After mastering the elementary skills, you can begin to sculpt more complex figures. Classes need to gradually complicate.

Motor skills development

Mindfulness exercises

Developing activities for 2-3 year old children should be aimed at developing attention. This is an important quality that needs to be developed from early childhood. If you miss this moment, then the baby may be distracted. This will further complicate the learning process.

Note! A child at two years of age most often does what interests him. He very quickly switches his attention from one subject to another. In the period from 2.5 to 3 years, there is a transition of passive attention to active attention. It is important not to miss this moment.

Little children love to play hide and seek. This is a universal game that can be played not only at home, but also outdoors in summer and spring. At home, you can hide the toy and ask the baby to find it. Each time you need to hide the toy in a new place.

You can come up with an exciting game: draw and cut mushrooms, hide them all over the room, then invite the child to collect all the mushrooms in a basket.

Perfectly develops attention and understanding of the construction of structures according to drawings. You can draw them yourself. Such a lesson is difficult for a child of two years of age, so the help of parents is required. But gradually he will master the principle, and the lesson will give excellent results.

It is important for children to develop the skill of switching attention from one subject to another. This will be useful in further educational activities. This skill needs to be given time from early childhood. For example, in the process of an exciting game, you can ask a child a distracting question, if he reacts to it, then the development process is going correctly.

Important! Children need to learn to mind their own business and answer their parents’ questions at the same time. For example, a baby may be passionate about drawing, but at the same time answer what he did in kindergarten.

Hide-and-seek for attention development

Baby’s memory development

Learning the process of how to deal with a 2-year-old child, it is important not to miss the development of memory. At birth, the baby does not react to anyone, then gradually begins to remember the parents. At the age of one, he already knows all the family members well, recognizes his favorite toys.

At the age of two, babies have involuntary memory. He is able to remember certain words, little rhymes. It is important at this age to start developing memory. To do this, you can use simple games:

  • Read a fairy tale before going to bed, and then in the morning ask the kid what it was about. It is recommended to ask the baby in the evening how his day went, what he did interesting.
  • You can invite the baby to look at the picture, then hide it and after a while ask to tell what was drawn on it. If he finds it difficult to answer, you can help with leading questions.

Note! As an attention game, you need to lay out three or four toys in front of the baby, tell about each of them. Then you need to ask the baby to turn away and hide one toy. The child must say which one is missing.

The development of attention

The development of thinking and perception in children 2-3 years old

Children at the age of two are fascinated, first of all, by bright objects. If you want to play logic games, you need to choose only one object at a time. For example, today only a pyramid is assembled, the next day a house is built from cubes.

It is important for two-year-olds to study colors. Tasks for GEF are supposed to start with plain cards. You can show them to the baby and say what color it is. Repeat until the baby remembers. Then you can complicate the lesson. For example, collect multi-colored balls and ask the child to arrange them by color.

Important! Didactic games with cards develop thinking well. For example, pictures are cut into two halves. The kid must logically find a pair for each picture. You can take a mother animal and her cubs.

Activity plan with a 2-year-old at home for a week

Mothers with small children never have free time. In order to competently conduct classes, taking into account all the necessary aspects of development, it is recommended to draw up a detailed plan for the week. The summary will help to visually see whether all aspects of educational activities are affected. Lessons may vary depending on the season. For example, in the summer it is best to spend more time on a walk, where you can also come up with educational games for children.

A sample lesson plan might look like this:

  • Monday: exercises, rhyme reading, repetition of what was read, plasticine modeling.
  • Tuesday: dancing and playing with musical instruments, such as a drum parade; leaf applique; grits game.
  • Wednesday: outdoor exercise in case of good weather; drawing with finger paints, building a house for a teddy bear and a garage for his car.
  • Thursday: musical morning warm-up, theatrical performance of the kolobok fairy tale; molding a bun from dough.
  • Friday: exercises with reading rhymes, playing with water (transfusion of liquid from one vessel to another, reading a fairy tale and a short retelling.
  • Saturday: trip to the zoo, on the way back clarifying questions about whom the baby saw in the zoo, please describe the animals Drawing animals from the zoo
  • Sunday: exercises, didactic game of halves “who is whose baby”, modeling from plasticine

Note! playing alone will lead to the fact that the baby will grow up closed. In the future, because of this, adaptation problems will arise.0003

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Опубликовано: July 11, 2023 в 5:14 pm

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Our Place to Grow | Spanaway WA Child Care Center

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Description: Our Place to Grow is a Child Care Center in Spanaway WA, with a maximum capacity of 134 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 1 month – 12 years 0 months. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 10/21/2013. Doing Business As Our Place to Grow. Early Achievers Status: Participating, not yet rated.

Program and Licensing Details

  • License Number:
    PL-7001
  • Capacity:
    134
  • Age Range:
    1 month – 12 years 0 months
  • Early Achievers Rating:
    Level 3
  • Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
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  • Initial License Issue Date:
    Oct 21, 2013
  • Current License Issue Date:
    Apr 20, 2014
  • Current License Expiration Date:
    Dec 31, 2999
  • District Office:
    Tacoma/Port Angeles
  • District Office Phone:
    253. 983.6125 (Note: This is not the facility phone number.)
  • Licensor:
    Hugh Williams ([email protected])

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