3 Year Old

Curriculum for 3 Year Old Children

Our Program for 3 Year Old Children

Concord Preschool and Childcare is committed to supporting early childhood development in a nurturing and loving environment. Our 3 year old curriculum is designed to enhance the social-emotional, language-literacy, mathematics, science, and physical development of your child. This learning experience lays the foundation of continued school success and will help your child gain the confidence they need to help them succeed in their future endeavors.

Language and Literacy

Receptive Communication
  • Develop listening, attention, comprehension skills and follow a two or three step direction
  • Identify particular sounds and increase vocabulary
Expressive Communication
  • Participate in turn taking in conversations and be able to verbalize a story to an adult
  • Learn to communicate using nouns, verbs and descriptive phrases
Emergent Reading
  • Identify name letters of the alphabet and recognize common letter sounds
  • Can hold a book upright, turn the pages starting at the front of the book
Emergent Writing
  • Uses scribbles, symbols or drawings to express experiences on paper
  • Practice writing left to right and top to bottom
Child Care

Social-Emotional

Self-Concept
  • Learning to make meaningful choices and experience the outcomes of those choices in a supportive and safe environment
  • Participate in activities that are challenging and thought-provoking but within their reach
  • Learning to be part of the classroom group so that each child feels accepted and obtains a sense of belonging
Self-Regulation
  • Ability to express feelings and needs appropriately
  • Learning to follow simple rules and routines
Social Relationships and Cooperation
  • Develop and maintain friendships
  • Demonstrate positive social skills, manners and learn to become a helpful member of the group

Science

Sensory Awareness
  • Begin to identify and recognize the differences among the senses 
Scientific Exploration/Scientific Inquiry
  • Use materials and tools appropriately for problem solving and exploration
  • Investigate and explore questions using observations and previous experiences to make predictions
Scientific Knowledge of Living and Non-Living Things
  • Observe and discuss the natural world of people, animals and plants
  • Observe and discuss physical properties of non-living things (rocks are hard, ice is cold)
Mathematics

Mathematics

Number and Operations
  • Develop an awareness of counting and numbers as a means for understanding quantity
  • Recognize numbers and recite numbers in sequence
Patterns / Measurement
  • Recognize and copy simple patterns with a variety of materials
  • Sort and match a variety of objects according to color, shape, or size
  • Explore measurable elements (weight, volume, length or time)
Emergent Literacy
  • Put together increasingly more difficult puzzles
  • Begin to recognize, build and draw two and three-dimensional shapes

Physical Development and Health

Fine Motor/Gross Motor
  • Development of strength and coordination of muscles in hands and fingers
  • Develop hand-eye coordination by touching, reaching and grasping
  • Development of large muscle strength
Health Awareness
  • Learning about healthy habits: personal care, hygiene and nutrition
Contact us to learn more about our curriculum for 
3 year old children.
Let us help prepare your child for the future.
SPECIAL ITEMS

Snack - We provide a snack in the morning for all children and a second snack in the afternoon for the children who stay for childcare; milk and juice are also provided

Arts and Crafts - The children will paint, color and use arts and craft supplies

Music and Physical Education - Your tuition includes a music program and physical education for all of the children enrolled; these classes are conducted by our specialized music and physical education teachers
SPECIAL EVENTS

Halloween Parade – In October all children will participate in the Halloween Parade

Fire Truck – During Fire Prevention Week, the fireman and his fire truck will visit us and talk to the children about fire safety

Performances – Throughout the school year such as puppet shows and plays

Lunch with Santa – In December Santa will come to visit, give gifts, eat lunch and sing songs with us

Traveling Zoo – Every May, the Traveling Zoo will visit and let us see their small animals

SPECIAL OFFERINGS

Concord Preschool offers to children ages 3 and older

Soccer Shots
Yoga (Petite Yogi)
Spanish (Language University)

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