2-Year-Old Preschool Program

Inquisitive Investigators

Our Inquisitive Investigators program provides children ages two to three with a fun-filled and positive education experience in a safe, secure and loving environment. We strive to make learning fun! The program reinforces language development, school readiness, fine and gross motor skills, and cognitive ability. Tuition includes organic and all natural lunches and snacks, organic fruit and organic milk plus four specials a week: Dance, Spanish, Sign Language and Music.

The carefully crafted curriculum focuses on:

  • Teaching about feelings

  • Developing routines

  • Using manners and patience to share, wait their turn, and play nicely with others

  • Helping children to calm down and work out their problems

  • Playing nicely with toys and taking care of material

  • Understanding the difference between what is real and what is imagined

  • Using lots of language and encouraging children to communicate age appropriately

  • Reading and rereading books and having the children answer basic comprehension questions

  • Understanding sequence of events and stories

  • Properly gripping a pencil and understanding left and right progression

  • Writing letters and even names

  • Reciting and recognizing in print the upper and lower-case alphabet and numbers, shapes and colors

  • Age appropriate mathematics concepts, such as sorting, classifying, comparing, patterns, and counting

  • Singing songs and reciting nursery rhymes

  • Providing ample opportunities to use the senses

  • Playing games

  • Providing playtime activities, i.e., dress up, blocks, sand, and play dough

  • Music and movement

  • Art using crayons and finger paint

  • Working on art and multi-theme projects that take days to complete

  • Puzzle and puppetry time

  • Opportunities to run around and play in our indoor play space or outdoors, weather permitting

  • Assigning jobs and tasks to help develop responsibility

  • Completing two-step directions

  • Potty training when ready

  • Developing independence

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Call us to learn more: 201-523-9555

To learn more about our 2-year old preschool / daycare program or to schedule a tour, please send us an email or give us a call at 201-523-9555.
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Our Little Explorers (toddlers between 1 and 2 years old) and their developmental milestones *

Milestones:

  • Walk upstairs
  • Walk backward
  • Balance on one foot
  • Ride a tricycle
  • Throw a ball
  • Like to draw, color and paint
  • Brush their own teeth
  • Dress themselves
  • Take an interest in potty training or are trained
  • Talk in longer sentences
  • Begin to make friends
  • Begin to share toys and take turns
  • Enjoy cleaning
  • Love to pretend play and love to make silly sounds
  • Sometimes get angry or scared
  • Love to laugh
  • Can speak clearly or are beginning to speak clearly
  • By age 3 possess a vocabulary of nearly 1,000 words
  • Recognize shapes, letters, numbers and colors
  • Count to at least 10
  • Can compare and sort and match objects
  • May have tantrums
  • May ask lots of questions
  • Can sit still longer

PLEASE NOTE

Please note that these developmental milestones are intended as a sampling or guide, and may not exactly reflect what your child is doing at a particular time. Each child is an individual and develops at his or her own pace. Sources: The Mailbox Superbook / Preschool by numerous contributors, A Survival Guide for the Preschool Teacher by Jean R. Feldman, healthychildren.org and zerotothree.org.

Please visit the two websites listed for more information. Consult your pediatrician if you are in any way concerned about your child’s development.

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