Classes
At Skills Learning Center, all concepts are given when the child is ready, and not a given chronological age.
2-Year Old Class
THE BASICS
2-year olds are learning about:
1. INDEPENDENCE
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Potty training
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Putting on their shoes
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Washing Hands
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Cleaning up
2. THEMSELVES
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Body parts
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How to make friends
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Language and communication
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Dealing with emotions
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Sensory awareness
3-Year Old Class
THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF THE BASICS DOWN
3-year olds are ready for:
1. MORE INDEPENDENCE
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Dressing themselves
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Doing chores
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Following more complex directions
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Completing tasks
2. FINE MOTOR SKILLS
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Tracing and writing their names
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Cutting with scissors
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Folding, drawing, coloring
3. SOCIALIZATION
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The interest in making friends grows
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Conflict resolution
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Making choices
3. ENVIRONMENT
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Following a schedule
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Following simple directions
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Caring for the classroom
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Caring for others
4. GROWING
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Awareness of their own capabilities and limitations
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Development of gross motor skills through outdoor play and manipulative objects in the classroom
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Awareness of counting, colors, shapes, words and music
5. MATH
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Counting to 3
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Sorting by color
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Sorting by size
4. LANGUAGE
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Listening ability increases
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Rapid acquisition of new words
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Able to express feelings verbally
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Realization that words are made up of sounds
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Learning phonics
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Decoding 3 letter words
5. IMAGINATION
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Dressing up
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Art
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Music
6. MATH
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Counting to 10
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Writing numbers 1-10
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Simple clocks
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Skip counting by 10
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Distinguishing which number is bigger, e.g. 3 or 5, 6 or 2
4-Year Old Class
WITH ALL THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND PHYSICAL ABILITY
4-year olds develop:
1. GROSS MOTOR SKILLS
They can
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Somersault
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Ride bikes
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Walk backwards
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Balance
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Participate in sports
2. FINE MOTOR SKILLS
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Awareness that they can use their hands to make what their brain wants.
Construction through any medium--art, Lego, blocks
3. INDEPENDENCE
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Development of unique personality
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Large vocabulary allows curiosity to develop--lots of questions
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Memory has developed
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Child can remember instructions and retell events and stories
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4. LANGUAGE
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Using mostly correct grammar
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Can write their own name
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Phonetic reading and simple writing
5. SOCIALIZATION
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Love playing with other children of the same age
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Play is imaginative, often with props
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Enjoys structured environment in which develops social, physical, intellectual and emotional abilities
6. MATH
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Adding
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Subtracting
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Skip Counting
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Coins
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Clocks
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Simple division
Kindergarten (5-6 year olds)
AT THIS AGE, CHILDREN EXPLODE INTO LEARNING
They love school and love learning about biology, botany, geography, science, cultural events and history. They have a great interest in time--clocks, calendars, seasons and events that repeat annually.
1. SOCIALIZATION
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Understand how to make friends
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Understand that their words have power--they can make others feel good or bad through their words
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Want to include friends in all aspects of their lives, whether they are creating art, dance, dress up, stories, play dates
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Develop leadership skills
2. CREATIVITY
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Love everything imaginary--unicorns, dragons, super heroes, and princesses. Even "normal" objects become part of their imaginary game.
3. LANGUAGE
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Read well enough to enjoy simple stories
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Can remember rules in language
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Good pencil control and can write simple sentences
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Letter formation and spatial consideration is good
4. MATH (5 year olds)
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Addition and subtraction
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Multiplication: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
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Division
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Fractions
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Clocks: 9:10, 9:16
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Money
5. MATH (Kindergarten)
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Dynamic addition and subtraction - carrying, borrowing
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Multiplication
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Division
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Clocks - Roman numerals
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Coins - Decimal form
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Beginning geometry
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Beginning chemistry
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Math in picture form
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Math in word problems