3-Year Old Preschool
Note: This program is for children 3-4 years old. Children must be three years old and toilet trained by September 1 to begin in September, or three years old and toilet trained by January 1 to begin in January.
Choice of Days:
- Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday, 9;00-11:30am WAIT LIST
- Thursday/Friday, 9:00-11:30am
Our Preschool program provides a nurturing environment that promotes:
- Acceptance and belonging in a group situation
- Age appropriate activities designed to engage and challenge
- A sense of comfort with school routines and environment
- Extending your child’s circle of trust in separation from parents
- Partnering the parent during this step in the educational process
- Recognizing and affirming strengths and talents
- Development of the “whole child” (intellectual, social, emotional, physical) through literature-based integrated lessons and special units of study
- Beginning to learn school behaviors: walking feet, inside voice, sharing toys, etc.
A Typical Day
Circle Time:
- Activities that tap into a child’s innate curiosity and imagination
- Rote counting and the counting of objects
- Integrated lessons that promote higher level thinking skills
- Ongoing discussion of the unit of the month in a mini-lesson
- Discussions of the seasons
- Songs, finger plays and games, rhymes
- Developing listening skills in a group and to lengthen attention span
Project and Play Time:
- Activities that foster working and playing in a group
- Daily art projects that relate to the theme being studied and promote fine motor skills
- Centers that provide a wide variety of sensory experiences such as water tables and science discoveries
- A variety of manipulatives and puzzles
- Transition activities
- Beginning to work and play in a group
Story/Snack:
- Literature related to the unit/season that provides opportunities to develop a love of language and literature
- Show and Tell component that develops comfort in speaking in front of a group
- Snacks provided are peanut free
- Responsibility for individual clean-up of snack table
Gross Motor Activity:
- 30 minute large muscle activities per session, regardless of weather conditions
- Outside: Fenced playground environment promotes imaginative play with riding toys, bubbles, chalk, climber, playhouse, sandbox, soccer balls, and games
- Inside: Bright, carpeted play area with a variety of ridings toys, bouncy balls, parachute, basketball, balance beams, tunnels, stick animals, hopscotch, bean bag toss, scarves and ribbon rings.