Hummingbirds

2 Years old- 3 Years old

 

SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL SKILLS

 

 

• Encourage their natural curiosity in a safe, nurturing and loving environment.

• Guide and model cooperation, waiting turn and sharing as they assert their independence.

• Begins to offer toys to other children that they are not playing with but enjoys solitary play.

• Begins watching and imitating play of other children.

• Begins walking from one place to another holding a loop.

• Begins to recognize self in the mirror.

• Begins to play simple pretend, such as feeding a doll.

• Begins to hand things to others when requested.

• Begins to help pick up and put away toys. 

 

 

READING READINESS SKILLS

 

• Learns simple songs, finger plays and dances.

• Listens and interacts during story time.

• Completes sentences and rhymes in familiar books.

• Looks at picture books.

• Plays simple make-believe games.

• Names many everyday objects.

• Knows what ordinary things are for; for example, telephone, brush, spoon.

• Plays object-hiding games and then names what they have found.

• Attends to self-selected activities for longer periods of time.

• Follows one-step verbal commands without any gestures; for example, sits when you say “sit down”.

• Begins to follow two-step verbal commands without any gestures.

• Points to body parts and enjoys identifying parts when singing songs such as Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.

 

 

MATH/SCIENCE READINESS SKILLS

 

• Understands that objects belong together:  Puts spoon in bowl and then uses spoon as eating; places teacup on saucer and sips from cup.

• Understands spatial and form:  puts all pegs in a pegboard; places three geometric shapes in a large form board or puzzle.

• Looks for and figures out solutions:  where did the ball roll, what caused a particular noise, what needs to be

• done to make a drum make noise.

• Participates in number stories and finger play songs; for example, 5 Little Speckled Frogs and 10 in the Bed.

• Puts objects together, take them apart; fits large pegs into pegboard.

• Does simple classification tasks based on a single dimension (separates toy dinosaurs from toy cars).

 

GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Gets to feet unaided after activity; such as, Ring Around the Rosie.

• Pushes and Pulls Toys.

• Carries toys from place to place.

• Passes toy to other hand when offered a second object (referred to as “crossing the midline”)

• Picks up objects and throws them in a bucket.

• Sits upright on the floor and in a small chair.

• Walks around and crawls through objects in an obstacle course.

• Attempts to stand on tiptoes, kick a ball, run, balance on one foot and jump up and down.

• Attempts to throw (underhand) and catch a ball.

• Attempts to roll and catch a ball when sitting on the floor and legs apart.

 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Drinks from a cup.

• Eats with a spoon.

• Uses large crayons and markers for scribbling.

• Moves from a whole-arm movement when coloring to grasping crayon with a fist hold.

• Helps turn pages in a book.

• Stacks two to six objects per day.

• Places several small items (blocks, clothespins, cereal pieces) in a container or bottle and then dumps them out.

• Attempts to use “nesting toys”.

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

 

• Learns sign language to express needs; such as more and please.

• Moves from shaking head “No” to saying the word “No”.

• Moves from saying single words to saying sentences with 2 to 4 words.

• Points to things when they are named.

• Points and names an object.

• Knows the names of familiar people and body parts.

• Repeats words heard and attempts to sing parts of songs.

• Understands and follows simple instructions.