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.