(2 & 2,5)Years

(2 & 2,5)Years

1. Gross Motor

   • 2.5 years
     • Stand on tiptoe
     • climb nursery apparatus (equipment)
     • Jump with both feet together from a low step
   • 2 Years
     • Can run & avoid obstacles
     • Can throw a ball overhand, but cannot catch it
     • Walk up and down stairs, and putting both feet on the step
     • sit on a tricycle and propel it with their feed- they cannot yet use the pedales
     • Squat with complete steadiness

2. Fine Motor

   • 2.5 Years
     • Can hold a pencil with a tripod grasp
     • Build a tower of seven or more cubes
     • Can imitate a horizontal line, a circle, a T and a V
   • 2 Years
     • Can drink from a cup with fewer spills
     • Turn a page of a picture book singly
     • Copy a vertical line and sometimes the litter V
     • Draw circles, lines and dots using their preferred hand
     • pick up tiny object using a finger pincer grasp
     • Build a tower of six or more blocks

3. Cognative & language

   • 2 Years
     • Understanding the consequences of their action
     • Interested in the people and object names
     • Talk to themselves, but may not be understood by others
     • Provide comfort when other babies cry
     • Often omit opening or closing consonants
     • Understanding more words than they can speek
     • Use telegraphic speech
     • Speak over 200 words
     • Follow simple instructions
   • 2.5 Years
     • Talk audibly and intelligibly to themselves when play
     • Use some pronouns correctly
     • Constantly ask questions beginning with what and who
     • Repeat words spoken to them
     • Can say few nursery rhymes
     • Know their full name

4. Social & Emotional

   • 2 Years
     • Can dress themselves independently
     • Often feel frustrated when they cannot express themselves
     • Often likes to help others
     • May be clingy ang dependent at times and independent at other times
     • Are eager to try new experiences
     • Are beginning to express how they feel
     • Are impulsive and curious about their environment
   • 2.5 Years
     • Play more with other children, but may not share toys with them
     • Are emotionally still very dependent on an adults
     • May go to the toilet by themselves
     • Eat skillfully with a spoon and may use a fork
     • May be dry through the night

5. Sensory

   • 2 Years
     • Recognize familiar people in photos, but do not yet recognize themselve
     • Listen to general conversation with interest
   • 2.5 Years
     • Recognize minute details in picture books
     • Recognize themselves in photos