Three Year Old Classes
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THREE-YEAR-OLD CLASSES
THREE-YEAR-OLD CLASSES – The three-year-old class has an emphasis on language development and beginning social skills. The activities are designed to help children to begin to develop self esteem. The art, language and motor skills are taught through small groups. Their week includes show and tell, library and bike day. Classes are offered either two or three days a week.
The two-day class is offered on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Children need to be three years of age by December 31st of the school year.
The three-day program is offered on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. Children going into this class must be three by December 31st of the school year. Children do not need to be potty trained in order to attend the three-year-old program. The ratio of staff to student is 1:7. This ratio is smaller than that required by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services which licenses early childhood education programs.
THREE-YEAR-OLD CLASS GOALS
To help children grow:
- Physically
- Our physical education program involves helping children
- Build a sound body
- Participate in and enjoy movement activities
- Help children develop coordination and balance
- Increase small and large motor skills
- Our physical education program involves helping children
- Intellectually
- Language
- Help children move from physical to verbal communications
- Learn to ask for what they need and learn vocabulary to communicate those needs
- Learn language to solve problems and sustain play
- Learn how to listen
- Learn finger plays, poems, and stories
- Associate print with words and stories
- Begin to write name
- Numbers
- Learn that numbers are a part of life
- Numbers tell us how many
- Numbers tell us the order of things
- Language
- Creatively
- Art
- Learn to look deeply
- Learn to use a pencil, marker, crayon to make marks and symbols
- Give opportunities for using different types of art media
- Children will begin to move from scribbling to shapes to recognizing objects they have made. The process of using and experimenting with materials is desired rather than making specific objects.
- Music
- Learn to move to music
- Learn to sing a simple song
- Participate in rhythm bands
- Listen to many varieties of music
- Art
- Socially and Emotionally
- Learn to interact with peers and teachers in a classroom setting.
- Move from parallel to group play
- Feel good about self and others
Making puzzles! 
Science experiments are fun! We are learning which objects the wind moves!
