2 Year Old Program
Our 2 Year Old Program lays the foundation for your child’s school experience at Bella Bee and beyond.
The following options are available for the 2 Year Old Program:
- Wednesday only
- Monday-Tuesday
- Thursday-Friday
- Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday
- Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
Classes are available for morning sessions only.
For rates, please see our Tuition page.
2 Year Old Program Curriculum
Emotional Growth
- Provide a safe, healthy, secure and welcoming environment away from home
- Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child
- Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life
- Create an environment that encourages curiosity and exploration
- Provide experiences to increase child’s sense of competence
- Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility
Cognitive Growth
- Provide activities to promote language development
- Provide activities to promote sequencing skills
- Provide opportunities to learn expressive language through singing songs, conversation, role play, pretend and dramatic play, peer interaction and circle time
- Provide activities to promote visual discrimination with colors and matching colors, simple objects or pictures
- Invite interest in books and reading by reading, encouraging children to hold and explore books and to “read” using pictures and memory
- Provide opportunities to express self through music, art and movement
Social Growth
- Encourage beginning cooperative play, sharing and taking turns
- Encourage independence (leaves parents comfortably)
- Encourage responsibility of maintaining classroom environment
- Encourage respect for teacher, classmates and others
Physical Growth
- Provide activities to promote large muscle development
- Provide activities to promote small muscle development and hand-eye coordination
- Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety
Spiritual Growth
While Bella Bee Academy maintains a non-faith environment, we do teach rules of life and good citizenship:
- Encourage and model showing love for one another and being a good friend
- Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern
