Pre –School 3 Year Old Curriculum and Early Childhood Behavior Summary
Sacred Heart School’s Pre-School 3 year old program is designed to address the socio-emotional, perceptual motor, and cognitive needs of each child. Early Childhood is the time devoted to learning through activity and experience. Each child is encouraged and challenged to learn at his/her own pace and ability, while also learning how to function within the structure of a group setting. The classroom is a structured environment to help children become familiar with school. The program engages children so they enjoy being in the classroom. Our program gives children the opportunity for hands-on activities, learning centers, and playtime. Student learning centers are designed to enhance day-to-day instruction and to meet the intellectual needs of the learner who is able to move ahead at a faster pace. Activities provided in the centers challenge the imagination and foster independence.
The Pre-School 3 year old program includes:
- A Choice of a Half Day or Full Day Program
- Half day program 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
- Full day program 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Socio – Emotional Behavior Skills
- Separates from mother easily
- Understands taking turns
- Helps at little household tasks
- Enjoys dress-up clothes
- Enjoys praise
- Undresses self
- Perceptual Motor Skills
- Can swing
- Can hop on one foot
- Can walk heel to toe
- Can stand on one foot with momentary balance
- Buttons and unbuttons
- Paints picture with large brush on easel
- Holds crayons with fingers rather than fist
- Prints a few capital letters anywhere on a page
- Rolls ball
- Strings 4 beads
- Kicks a large ball
- Cognitive Skills
- Speaks in approximately 6 word sentences
- Matches 2 or 3 primary colors (usually red and yellow)
- Matches 3 forms to forms on shape board
- Demands to hear favorite story over and over
- Can sort 10 black and 10 white buttons correctly
- Can point to parts of body
- Says a nursery rhyme or sings a song
- Works up to a 7 piece puzzle
- Has a 900 word vocabulary
- Learning Centers include
- Reading
- Math
- Art
- Music
- Drama
- Play
Some added features to our program include our Small Blessings Christmas play, Stone Soup Day, Junior Olympics, and our Fly Up ceremony at the end of the year.
