The Hungry Caterpillars
- for children in the approximate age
range of 18 months to 2.5 years of age
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he Hungry Caterpillars class is designed for children
from 18 months to two and a half years old. In order to maintain
a high level of individual and small group educational opportunities for
each child, enrollment is limited for these groups.
Each child has a Family Education Plan. An
initial assessment with each child provides a developmental profile from
which goals are created. If a child already has particular goals from
another source or therapist, The Storybook Center incorporates those goals
with its own goals. Each child's goals are implemented into the child's
weekly, literacy-based schedule of circle time, peer play time, snack time,
sensory exploration, music, early science, lunch time, and discovery time.
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The Storybook Center is unique in that we have an
adaptable curriculum that allows us to teach to each child, within the
support network of his peers and his peers' modeling.
At this stage, children are exercising their independence
and practicing social skills with people outside of their family.
Developmentally, children in this age range can usually say about 50 words,
understand about 300 words, can name common objects, and listen to pick up
new vocabulary from more word labels. They can often use ritualized
expressions such as “hi” and “bye” and are beginning to make two-word
combinations - usually in the form of a demand. They should also be learning
how to follow simple two-step commands without eye cues, signs, etc.
Therefore, The Hungry Caterpillars primarily focus on building up and
expanding the children’s word banks in meaningful ways. The
instructors use signs while speaking in order to maximize comprehension with
the young children.
This group participates in our Storybook take-home
reading program,
Growing a Reader. For more information visit
click here.
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