“The expert in anything was once a beginner.”

TLC Icebreakers (2-year-olds)

Our Icebreaker’s program for two-year-old children fosters a creative and collaborative approach to academic excellence. The program is specifically designed to instill confidence, competence, and independence in first-time students – with a focus on social interaction.

Predictable routines, orderly arrangement of materials, and planned activities gently teach each child to operate within the more complex parameters of a school environment. “Following the rules,” “putting your work away,” and “taking turns” foster awareness and consideration of others.

Thanks to the small student-teacher ratio, teachers provide all the special attention these young children need to achieve their goals and prepare for their graduation to the TLC Pathfinders program.

We focus on six developmental areas:

Social and Emotional Skills

  • Copying others, especially adults and other children
  • Playing beside other children and beginning to include others, especially in chase games
  • Cooperating with teachers
  • Being aware of one’s own feelings and those of others

Language and Communication Skills

  • Pointing to items and pictures when they are named
  • Knowing the names of familiar people and body parts
  • Speaking in 24-word sentences
  • Repeating words heard in conversation
  • Following simple directions

Cognitive Skills

  • Beginning to sort colors and shapes
  • Building towers of four or more blocks
  • Completing sentences and rhymes in familiar books

Fine Motor Skills

  • Making or copying straight lines and circles
  • Using manipulatives such as blocks, peg boards, and string beads appropriately

Gross Motor Skills

  • Standing on tiptoes

Spiritual Development

  • Understanding that we listen and sit quietly in God’s House
  • Saying a blessing before snack and lunch

Enrollment is open for 2023 Summer Camp and the 2023-2024 School Year.
For more information, please call 804.270.5042.