Two-Year-Old Classroom

St. Mary’s offers a dynamic Two-Year-Old program that focuses on the development of the child in relation to perception, motor skills, cognition, language, emotions, and social skills. Through a warm and loving environment, St. Mary’s youngest students are able to learn about themselves developing autonomy while learning about the world around them and where they fit into that world.

Helping young children recognize their own feelings and cope with them contribute to the child’s inner sense of self-direction and competence. Sometimes people want to label feelings as “good” or “bad”. However, all feelings are good; they carry energy, have purpose, and can provide us with messages that are important to our sense of self. Through guidance, our programs assist children in identifying their emotions and feelings and validating how they feel. Children feel all the same emotions that adults feel at this young age; however, they don’t always understand what they are feeling (such as frustration, embarrassment, elation, excitement, separation anxiety). By empowering our young students to understand their feelings, we are empowering them to be confident and communicate how they are feeling which leads to problem solving and peer relationship development.

Coursework also includes: