Preschool 1
Fine Motor Skills in 2-Year-Olds
At two years old, children are rapidly developing their fine motor skills—the small, precise movements that involve the hands and fingers. These skills are essential for everyday tasks like self-feeding, dressing, turning pages in a book, or scribbling with crayons. As toddlers gain more control over their hands, they also build confidence and independence.
Fine motor development at this age can be encouraged through a variety of simple, hands-on activities. These not only support physical coordination but also lay the groundwork for later skills like writing and self-care.
Activities that promote fine motor development include:
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Stacking blocks or cups – improves hand-eye coordination and problem-solving.
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Squeezing and shaping playdough – strengthens hand muscles and encourages creativity.
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Turning pages of board books – supports finger dexterity and early literacy.
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Using large crayons or markers to scribble – helps develop grip and control.
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Playing with simple puzzles or shape sorters – promotes fine motor precision and spatial awareness.
Encouraging these kinds of activities in a playful, low-pressure environment helps toddlers feel successful and eager to try new things. With time and practice, their fine motor skills will continue to grow—supporting everything from artistic expression to everyday independence.
Abeka Arts and Crafts with Button Bear
Band in a Box
Best of Handel CD (Best of Classical Kids)
Big Thoughts for Little People ABC’s to Help You Grow
Preschool 1 (Ages 2–3)
Our Preschool 1 program offers a gentle, play-based introduction to learning for children ages two to three. This stage is all about exploration, movement, and developing early social and motor skills. Our hands-on approach supports each child’s natural curiosity and builds a strong foundation for future learning.
Children engage in:
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Interactive play – building, sorting, and simple problem-solving
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Creative arts – painting, drawing, and tactile crafting
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Music & movement – singing, dancing, and rhythm games
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Nature exploration – outdoor discovery and sensory play
We focus on non-consumable, reusable materials that promote sustainability and allow children to revisit activities again and again. The program is designed to spark joy in learning and support meaningful growth during this important developmental stage.
Preschool 1 – Curriculum Package
This includes everything in the Preschool 1 curriculum package. You may choose to be billed monthly for the $25 per month tuition from August through May or click the button marked Full Year of Tuition to pay all the tuition in one payment.
$390.00
Preschool 1 – Full Year of Tuition
This is for families who prefer to pay tuition in a one-time payment for the year.
$250.00
Child’s First Bible
This charming storybook Bible contains 125 Bible stories retold by Dr. Kenneth Taylor, translator of The Living Bible. With delightful illustrations and easy-to-understand words, this is an engaging beginners’ Bible. A question following each story encourages deep thinking, and references help you find the story in the Bible. 256 pgs, hc.
Big Thoughts for Little People: ABC’s to Help You Grow
Ken Taylor’s best-selling book is now updated with all-new bright and colorful illustrations and a larger trim size. Using the alphabet as a learning tool, the easy-to-use format of this beloved picture book connects Bible themes and verses that teach kids ages 3-7 Christian values. Each spread represents a letter of the alphabet and a Christian value or moral lesson beginning with the same letter. Kids are encouraged to find the lesson being modeled (or not) in the illustrations. They are also asked questions to help them apply the lesson to their lives. This book is sure to win the hearts of kids and parents alike.
Singing Bible CDs
Learning facts and characters of the Bible has never been more fun! This CD collection has over 50 original sing-along songs. These songs will take your child on an adventurous walk starting in Genesis and going all the way through Revelations.
Little Hands to Heaven Teacher’s Guide
Little Hands to Heaven is a complete preschool program featuring:
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Letter recognition, formation, and sounds with motions
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Early math skills
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Bible activities and devotions
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Art projects and dramatic play
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Active exploration and finger plays
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Music and movement
Abeka Arts and Crafts with Button Bear (2nd Edition)
Arts and crafts give children a hands-on learning approach to daily concepts such as Bible stories, counting, animals, opposites, seasons, holidays, and more. This activity book contains 40 projects.
Let’s Color!
Begins with scribbling on a picture and progresses to coloring in designated lines. Using crayons is an important precursor to writing with a pencil.
Let’s Sticker & Paste
Children begin by placing stickers onto colorful backgrounds. As they work through the book they will learn to paste paper parts and objects onto designated areas. pgs.
Let’s Sticker and Paste! Amazing Animals
More practice properly positioning stickers and positioning and pasting pieces on adorable animals.
Play Smart Brain Boosters Workbook Age 2+
Activities include cutting & pasting, tracing, and matching games. 100+ stickers.
Flash Cards Colors Montessori
Colors consists of a pack of 40 flashcards representing 10 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, fuchsia, gray and black. Each color is made up of a “master” card, printed both front and back in a solid color, and three other cards: one in the same shade as the “master” card, one in a medium shade and one in a lighter tone than the “master” color. On the back of these color scale cards there is a photo of a subject colored in the same tone as the front. These simple and clear materials, inspired by Maria Montessori’s methods, allow children to recognize colors and shades independently. The cards are 4½”x 3½” in size, and made from whiteboard material.
Montessori My First Tactile Library
This game lets very young experiment with their sense of touch by classifying images and objects. The pack contains five tactile cards with spiky, smooth, rough, woolly and hairy surfaces, and 30 tiles to group.
My First Brain Quest Shapes
My First Brain Quest: Shapes helps lay the foundation for pre-math skills, as children identify and describe shapes and their attributes. Questions help children build vocabulary and their understanding about the similarities and differences between shapes. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles, and reviewed by a panel of early learning experts, this board book introduces numbers in a fun, engaging way.
Crayola Ultra-Clean Washable Broad Line Markers – Classic 10 Count
10 Ultra-Clean Washable broad line markers in classic colors.
Kidicut Safety Scissors – 4.75″
Unlike other plastic blades, these actually cut paper but not clothing, hair, or, most importantly, little fingers. Featuring a white bunny and pastel accents, these 4 ¾” plastic scissors are a cute (and safe) tool for improving cutting skills.
Prang Washable Watercolors: 8 Color Set with Brush
Prang® Semi-Moist Washable Watercolors feature the tuned palette of brilliant colors and intense pigments that have made Prang the watercolors most preferred by teachers nationwide. These washable watercolors easily wash off clothes and skin with soap and water. AP certified non-toxic. Conforms to ASTM standards.
SunWorks Construction Paper Assorted 9″x12″
SunWorks® Heavyweight Groundwood Construction Paper provides the best value in school grade construction paper. It is the perfect solution for school projects and other arts and crafts. It has bright and consistent colors, is slightly textured and cuts and folds evenly without cracking. Ten color assortment includes Scarlet, Black, Yellow-Orange, Brown, Pink, Violet, Blue, Holiday Green, White and Yellow. Recyclable.
Crayola Large Crayons 8 Count
With brilliant colors that go on smoothly and blend together seamlessly, kids will have fun letting their creativity flow, maybe even on surfaces they shouldn’t. Oops! But no worries, mom, these non-toxic crayons from Crayola® are truly formulated to make clean up a breeze since they easily wash off nonporous surfaces with a sponge and warm water. The large-sized crayons measure 4″ x 7/16″.
Crayola Giant Marker & Watercolor Pad
Large, smooth paper for your kiddos to draw with markers or paint with watercolors, they will love the large format! Pad of 25 pages, 16″x 12″.
Tempera Paint Primary Kit – 2 oz (6 Colors)
Handy Art® Tempera Paint is a great economical source of color. Made with high quality pigments, finely ground to provide bright color and dry to a matte finish that won’t chip, flake or crack. Highly opaque colors offer excellent coverage and color mixing. Clean up with soap and water. Certified AP Non-Toxic. Made in the USA.
Unruled White Index Cards (3″ x 5″) 100 Count
- PACKAGE INCLUDES. Unruled white index cards come with 100 sheets in total per pack. Each card is your blank canvas to incorporate into a variety of applications.Size: 3″x5″inch- 7.6cm x 12.7cm
Crayola Washable Glitter Glue – Fiery Flecks – 9 count
Get ready little crafters (big and small); it’s time to glitter! These soft plastic squeeze tubes feature small pen nips-so you can dispense small lines of sparkling beauty at a time-and color-coded caps. Glue dries clear and leaves a magnificent display of sparkles behind. Glitter colors and content in each tube are amazing, plus the glue washes off easily with soap and water. 16-count set is mini-tubes.
Woodland Animals Stickers
These handsome mini-portraits of common woodland animals include realistic images of a red squirrel, beaver, river otter, silver-haired bat, snowshoe hare, and 15 other creatures.
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
What happens when Sal and her mother meet a mother bear and her cub? A Caldecott Honor Book!
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother are picking blueberries for winter, but a mix-up on Blueberry Hill leads to a sweet and surprising encounter. Will both mothers leave with the right little one?
With expressive line drawings and a timeless story, Blueberries for Sal has delighted readers since 1948.
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
This is a tale about a peddler, but not any ordinary peddler – this one carries his hats balanced on his head! After he walks a while, he decides to take a rest underneath a tree. Just to be sure, he checks that all of the caps are there and in place before he takes a nap. When he wakes up, he feels refreshed, rested, and happy… until he realizes his caps are all gone! Wherever did they go?
Carrot Seed
This story is a great inspiration for those who believe despite others’ constant doubt. This little boy plants a carrot seed and everybody tells him it will not come up. Because the little boy’s faith is stronger than the negativity of others, he does not get discouraged.
Katy No-Pocket
Katy’s distress at being a kangaroo with no pouch is quickly remedied by a kindly construction worker.
Buckle Toys Busy Board (Green)
Keep your little learner engaged at home and on-the-go with this Busy Board. Made from soft, lightweight foam with a toddler-sized handle, it features four colorful buckles, each with a different clasp style, plus a zipper with hidden shapes inside. They’ll love the snap pocket and practicing shoelace tying!
Features
• 4 child-friendly buckles
• Shoe laces and snap pocket
• Zipper with hidden shapes
• Size: 11″ x 8″; 5 ounces
Melissa & Doug Get Well Doctor’s Kit Play Set
Little doctors can care for loved ones with the 25-piece Get Well Doctor’s Play Set—perfect for pretend checkups and house calls, all in a handy tote.
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Stethoscope, syringe, thermometer, reflex hammer
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Blood pressure cuff, tweezers, scissors, otoscope
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Cards, bandages, bottles, tongue depressors
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ID badge, mini magazine & more
Encourages imagination and empathy!
Band in a Box
This musical set includes a tambourine, cymbals, maracas, clacker, tone blocks and a triangle. It’s everything preschoolers need to form a marching band, launch a solo career or just enjoy exploring music and sounds.
Melissa & Doug Shapes Chunky Puzzle
Bright, bold, and built for little hands! This 8-piece wooden puzzle features familiar shapes with matching pictures underneath and names printed on the board. Chunky pieces stand upright for play, promoting hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and visual recognition.
Lacing Beads (Wooden)
Bright and chunky, this is a lacing set your child is likely to enjoy. It contains 2 long pieces of string and 27 wooden pieces for lacing. Each piece is multi-colored and large enough for little hands to hold. The shapes of the pieces vary including 4 stars, 4 circles, 4 squares, 4 barrel-shaped pieces, and 10 cubes that have numbers 1-10, along with matching dots, on them. Use for fun or to aid in the learning of numbers and patterning. Lacing Beads come in a 10″ x 8″ x 2″ storage container.
