2s Program

Goals

Language and Cognitive Development

  • Responds to own name

  • Expresses needs verbally

  • Speech understood by strangers

  • Recognizes and names primary colors

  • Identifies simple shape

  • Chooses to look at books

  • Follows 2 step directions

  • Attends to stories being read to group

  • Identifies big/little

  • Understands positional words (in/out, close/open, front/back)

  • Does simple puzzles

  • Touches and counts 1-5 objects

  • Shows interest in unusual events

Social/Emotional Development

  • Separates easily

  • Engages in parallel play

  • Begins cooperative play

  • Accepts directions and limits

  • Shows interest in classroom activities

  • Participates in classroom activities

  • Makes eye contact when spoken to

  • Shows empathy for others

  • Allows self to be comforted during stressful times

Motor Development

  • Runs without falling

  • Throws and kicks a ball

  • Jumps and lands on 2 feet

  • Climbs

  • Walks up and down stairs with alternating feet

  • Holds crayon or brush with pincer grasp (not fist)

  • Begins to manipulate small objects

  • Builds towers

  • Scribbles

  • Willing to try a variety of tactile materials

Self-Help

  • Washes hands with help

  • Drinks from a cup

  • Shows interest in toilet learning

Judaic and Spiritual Development

  • Begins to learn basic blessings

  • Engages with ritual objects and symbols of Jewish holidays

  • Feels comfortable in the synagogue

  • Recognizes the Rabbi and Hazzan

  • Experiences Shabbat as a special holiday