Three Year Old Class
The Year of Enrichment...
Children learn through play. Our goal is to provide a fun classroom environment filled with a variety of hands-on learning opportunities to stimulate cognitive skills for 3-4 year olds. Our units and daily activities create an environment rich in language and social skills that build on self-esteem and fostering independence to prepare your child for our Four Year Old Program.
Social / Emotional
- Separation from parents/caregiver easily
- Adjustment to school routine and classroom rules
- Listening /Following directions
- Participates in simple individual group activities
- Making friends/joins in play with others
- Making choices
- Appropriate behavior with large group activities and guest presenters
- Willing to try new tasks and skills
- Encourage language skills
- Role models sharing and caring for others
- Safety/boundaries
- Kind and appropriate language and actions
- Shows responsible use of toys and classroom materials
- Respect for self, friends and staff
- Manners/Eating
- Fire and tornado drills
- Understands cause & effect
- Toilets-self (potty trained)
- Participates in individual and group activities
- Self reliance
Fine / Large Motor Skills
- Manipulates fine motor objects (pegs, puzzles)
- Cutting/lacing /tracing
- Art (gluing, cutting, tearing, stamping, painting)
- Writing and proper grip of writing utensil
- Stacking and building
- Outdoor play (running, swinging, climbing)
- Moving to music
- Measuring, mixing, pouring, sifting (sand, rice and beans)
Academic
- Colors and shapes
- Name recognition
- Alphabet recognition
- Sounds /Phonics
- Number Recognition 1-5
- Numbers and counting to 10, one to one correspondence
- Rote counting from 1- 31
- Beginning patterns
- Sorting by size, shape and color
- Understanding prepositions (in, out, above, over)
Science
- Senses
- Weather
- Seasons
- Planting and growing
- Sink/Float
- Weight and scales
- Wildlife-habitation and hibernation
- Domestic and wild animals
- Nutrition/healthy teeth
- Insects
- Ocean
- Magnets
Art
- Creative expression
- Exploration of art materials and paints
- Step-by-step crafts
- Exploration of color
- Scribbles become basic forms
- Fine motor eye to hand coordination
Vocabulary
- Expanding vocabulary
- Engages in conversation with others
- Verbalizes wants and needs
Music
- Listens and responds to music through moving, singing and playing
- Singing, memorizing words and rhythms
- Identifies basic concepts of loud and soft; fast and slow
- Singing with musical accompaniment
Christian Education
- Bible Verses
- Prayers (spoken and sung)
- Bible Stories
- Chapel stories acted out by children
- Classroom application of chapel lesson
Special Events
- Music & Movement
- Class holiday parties
- Harvest Day Fun
- Special school days (hat, pet, etc.)
- Chorus rehearsals/Christmas Pageant
- Guest Presenters
- Fun Week
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