The children in my class are a little over 2yrs (about 27 months) to 3yrs. What would you call the age group as a whole? Usually toddlers are considered walking-2, but I don't think I would call ours preschoolers either.
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Good question. I always wonder too if there's a better word for this age. My daycare kids are all ages 0-3. I say we have infants and toddlers. But then I worry that people only thing of young toddlers. Are 2 year olds still called toddlers? Are 3 year olds?
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Around here our terminology is:
"babies" (under 1 yr)
"toddlers" (under 2)
"little kids" (2-3 yr old preschoolers)
"big kids" (3-5 yr old preschoolers)
"school-ers" (Kindy age and up)
Even though the state breaks it down for licensing ratios as:
0-12 months = infant
12-24 months = toddler
2 yr - 5 yrs = preschooler
5 yrs - 12 yrs = school age
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I call mine (2-5) preschoolers. When they are entering their final year before KG I call them Pre-K because I do KG prep activities with them and the parents like the differentiation so they know their child is being prepared for school.
But, when I worked in centers we called them:
0-1 Infants
1-2 Toddlers
2-3 Two's
3-4 Preschoolers
4-5 Pre-K
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Interest thread on 18 months - 36 months.
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Originally posted by Sunshine74 View PostThe children in my class are a little over 2yrs (about 27 months) to 3yrs. What would you call the age group as a whole? Usually toddlers are considered walking-2, but I don't think I would call ours preschoolers either.
I plan on having star related names for my groups of kids
1. Twinkling Stars (under 16 months; infants/ beginning tots)
2. Shooting Stars (16 months to about 30 months; Toddlers)
3. Star Students (30 months to about 60 months]; preschoolers [age depends on when they graduate])
4. Super Stars (5 years and up; before/after schoolers)
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Originally posted by mamac View PostTrouble. ::::
Seriously, though, that's a good question. :confused:
NY state lumps 18-36 months together under one ratio group. They don't really call them anything, they just say the age and the ratio. We have them broken down because they really are very different groups of kids. We call them toddlers, our room is Toddler 3- the third group of toddlers at our center. The first two are walking-18 months, and 18-27 months. But I know when I say toddlers, people think more of the first two groups.
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