Two Year Olds

Our two-year-old classes include children between the ages of 24 months to 36 months.
By the time your child leaves the two-year-old classrooms, he/she should be able to:

• Hold a crayon, marker, or pencil correctly, and show an interest in wanting to write
• Build a tower of at least 8 blocks
• Stand on one foot, and jump with both feet
• Kick into the air as if kicking an imaginary ball
• Walk on tippy-toes
• Know his/her first and last names
• Know if he/she is a boy or a girl
• Uses the word “I” and “me” correctly, and begin to use words in the plural form
• Repeat a series of 2 numbers, for example, 3, 5
• Understand the concept of just one
• Form sentences with at least 3 words
• Identify at least 6 animals
• Count to 3, count 3 objects
• Understand about simple dangers and hazards, such as fire, insects, etc.
• Put on his/her own coat or jacket and take off their coat or jacket
• Wash and dry hands all by him/herself
• Be potty trained or at least well on his/her way to being trained

Our Pre-K 2.5 classroom is where our pre-school program officially begins.  The children in this classroom are two and a half or close to that age at the beginning of the new school year (early to mid-August). 

Generally, children who start in a pre-school class at the beginning of a new school year, will stay in that classroom all school year long (from August until the following May).