Honeybees
The Honeybees are our youngest children, a mixed age group of nearly two-year-olds to young three-year-olds.It is our intent to provide them with a safe, nurturing, stimulating environment that supports these goals for their learning and development: |
To learn about themselves
- To feel valued and secure in their relationships
- To feel competent and proud about what they can do
- To feel supported as they express their independence
- To learn about their feelings
- To communicate a broad range of emotions through gestures, sounds and over time, words
- To express their feelings in appropriate ways
To learn about others
- To develop trusting relationships with nurturing adults
- To show interest in peers
- To demonstrate caring and cooperation
- To try roles and relationships through imitation and pretend play
To learn about communicating
- To express needs and thoughts without using words
- To identify with a home language
- To respond to verbal and nonverbal commands
- To communicate through language
To learn about moving and doing
- To develop gross motor skills
- To develop fine motor skills
- To coordinate eye and hand movements
- To develop self-help skills
To acquire thinking skills
- To gain an understanding of basic concepts and relationships
- To apply knowledge to new situations
- To develop strategies for solving problems
Throughout the day the Honeybees’ schedule includes experiences and activities designed to encourage social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive and creative learning and development, in a natural and playful manner, based on New Jersey’s Birth–Three Early Learning Standards.