2’s Program

2’s Curriculum

Cognition

• Curiosity and Initiative
  • Ask questions and seek answers from a variety of sources
• Engagement with Environment, People and Objects
  • Maintain interest in self-selected activities and may seek to engage other or ask questions
• Cause and Effect
  • Vary actions to observe different results (i.e., hot lever harder to see if results change)
• Attributes, Sorting and Patterns
  • Identify differences between objects across multiple characteristics (i.e., texture, color, shape, size)
• Problem Solving
  • Use spatial relationships to solve problems (i.e., fit pieces into puzzles)
• Symbolic Representation
  • Act out relational roles in play (i.e., mom or dad with baby)
• Choosing and Planning
  • Make choices based on preferences
• Task Persistence
  • Complete self-selected short-term activities many times to gain mastery
•  Cognitive Flexibility
  • Realize when something is not working and with adult assistance can try another approach
• Working Memory
  • Remember where recently used objects were placed
• Regulation of Attention and Impulses
  • Maintain focus on high-interest activities in the face of routine distractions
  • With adult support, resist impulses in structured settings for brief, but increasing periods of time

Social and Emotional Development

• Managing Separation
  • Manage most separations without distress and adjust to new settings and adjust to new settings with support from a trusted adult
• Regulation of Emotions and Behavior
  • With adult support, use self-soothing techniques to calm
• Regulation of Impulses and Behavior
  • Begin to control behavior by responding to choices and limits provided by an adult
• Emotional Expression
  • Begin to communicate about feelings, including the cause and reaction to these feelings (i.e., “I miss my mommy. I sad.”)
• Recognition and Response to Emotions in Others
  • Label a variety of emotions in pictures and others’ expressions
• Sense of Self
  • Identify self, family members, teacher, and some peers by name
• Self-Concept and Competency
  • Regularly engage in familiar tasks. Begin to show independence by attempting to do things on their own even when tasks are difficult for them
• Play/Friendship
  • Seek out other children and will interact with other children using common materials

Physical Development and Health

• Mobility
  • Walk up and down stairs alternating feet on steps with railing held
• Large Muscle Movement and Coordination
  • Catch and throw a playground ball with an adult a short distance away
  • Jump with two feet
  • Kick a ball in a forward direction
• Visual Motor Integration
  • Use common tools that require eye-hand coordination with precision and for their intended purpose (i.e., hammer peg, twist handle to open latch, put body parts on Potato Head)
• Small Muscle Movement and Coordination
  • Use writing tools or paint objects with some control and purpose
• Feeding Routines/Nutrition
  • Feed self with minimal spilling
• Dressing and Hygiene
  • Attempt to complete basic self-care routines (i.e., dressing, undressing, toileting, and washing) although may still need caregiver assistance
• Physical Activity
  • Demonstrate increasing strength and endurance sufficient to actively engage in a total of 60 minutes of physical activity spread over the course of a day

Early Language, Communication, and Literacy

• Word Comprehension
  • Demonstrate an understanding of an increased vocabulary, influenced by experience and relationships
• Language Comprehension
  • Follow two-step directions

• Vocabulary
  • Uses nouns and verbs to label experiences, actions, or events
• Expression of Ideas, Feelings, and Needs
  • Uses inflection in phrases or sentences to ask a question
• Language Structure
  • Uses speech that is mostly intelligible to familiar adults
• Language for Interaction
  • Converse with adults and peers about common experiences or events
• Interest and Engagement with Books
  • Sustain attention for short periods of time while being told a story or reading a favorite picture book
• Understanding of Stories or Information
  • Enjoy telling and retelling stories and information
• Book Concepts
  • Turns pages of a book
• Print Concepts
  • Recognize some familiar signs and symbols in the environment (i.e., logos, signs for familiar store)
• Phonological Awareness
  • Recognize environmental sounds (i.e., animal or vehicle sounds such as “Baa-baa” or “Beep-beep”)
• Drawing and Writing
  • Draw simple shapes to represent ideas and write messages using controlled linear scribble

Creative Arts

• Music
  • Show response to qualities of different music with variations in physical movement (i.e., children walk, bounce, slide, rock, sway in response to qualities of rhythm)
  • Repeats parts of simple songs
• Visual Arts
  • Create art in a variety of media with some control and own purpose
• Drama
  • Engage in simple pretend play activities
• Dance
  • Demonstrate directional and spatial awareness involving time (fast/slow), space (high, middle, low), or energy (hard/soft) (i.e., moving like a turtle, jumping like a frog, floating like a feather)

Early Mathematical Discovery

• Number Names
  • Say or sign number sequence up to at least five. Use other number names but not necessarily in the correct order
• Cardinality
  • Count two to three objects using one-to-one correspondence
• Comparison
  • Compare collections of 1 to 4 similar items verbally or nonverbally
• Number Operations
  • Use some vocabulary related to relative quantity (i.e., “more/less”)
• Measurement
  • Have an increasing vocabulary related to number, size, and quantity (i.e., use words such as “tall/long”)
• Sorting and Classifying
  • Sort based on one attribute with adult support
• Spatial Relationships
  • Find objects or locations based upon landmarks and position words
• Identification of shapes
  • Match familiar shapes with different size and orientation

Early Scientific Inquiry

• Questioning and Defining Problems
  • Ask simple questions related to things observed through the senses (“what” and “why”)
• Investigating
  • Manipulate materials and comment on the impact of own actions
• Unity and Diversity of Life
  • Observe features of plants and animals and explore function of features
• Living Things and Their Interactions with the Environment and Each Other
  • Observe a variety of living things obtain food as a source of energy for surviving.
• Energy, Force, and Motion
  • Observe different ways objects move (i.e., roll, bounce, spin, slide) and what happens when they interact (collide)
• Earth’s Features and Effects of Weather and Water
  • Describe common features of the earth (i.e., sky, land, and water) and what is found there (i.e., birds, fish, stars)