Glow Getters
2 – 2.5 Year Olds
Our Glow Getters are curious, confident, and ready to shine. At this energetic stage, our twos explore the world with growing independence, big feelings, and even bigger imaginations. In the Glow Getters room, we channel their natural sparkle into meaningful learning through hands-on activities, early language development, sensory exploration, and guided social-emotional support. With plenty of space to move, create, climb, and discover, our teachers nurture each child’s emerging skills while celebrating their unique personalities. Every day, our Glow Getters light up new milestones as they grow, learn, and glow a little brighter.
Curriculum & Milestones
Our Curriculum & Milestones for two-year-olds supports the tremendous growth that happens during this stage. Through purposeful play and hands-on exploration, our Glow Getters strengthen emerging skills across the five key areas of development: Approaches to Learning, Cognitive Development, Language Development, Physical Development, and Social-Emotional Development. Our teachers guide each child through age-appropriate milestones—encouraging independence, supporting early communication, building motor skills, and helping them navigate friendships and routines. Every day offers new opportunities for our twos to grow, discover, and shine a little brighter.
Approaches to Learning
Increasing independence through world exploration and problem-solving abilities.
Cognitive Development
Building an understanding of the world around them, while they practice thinking critically and creatively.
Sample Activity: Emotion Eggs
Milestone: Points to pictures that represent feelings and names the emotions.
Desired Outcome: Children develop the ability to recognize, understand, and communicate different emotions.
- The teacher draws faces that resemble different emotions on plastic eggs such as happy, sad, angry, etc. The eyes and nose are on the top half of the egg, the mouth on the bottom half.
- The teacher shows the children they can pull the eggs apart to mix and match the faces. The children play with the eggs.
- After the children have had time to play, the teacher asks them to say what emotion they made. For example, “Look at the face you made! The egg looks angry. Can you show me your angry face?”
- The teacher observes the children as they play with the eggs and tracks whether they can accurately name the feelings and emotions.
Language Development
Effective communication abilities are developing as these 2-year-olds use sounds, expressions, body language, and eventually, oral and written language while responding to and understanding others.
Physical Development
These 2-year-olds practice coordinating and controlling large and small muscle movements, while they build an understanding of health and safety concepts.
Expert Corner:
Active Bodies, Healthy Brains The positive impact of physical activity on children’s health—and mental development—cannot be understated. There is a strong connection between being active and growing brain power.
Regular exercise is not only vital to physical development, but also brain development…
Social-Emotional Development
Developing and understanding of their own emotions and their relationships with others, like family, friends, and community members, as well as understanding how to interact with others while developing self-awareness.
