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The main emphasis of our three-year-old class is socialization: learning to share, getting along with friends in school, and taking turns. Our curriculum includes a daily craft, introduction to the alphabet, geometric shapes, community helpers, science including many fun hands-on experiments, farm animals, pets, seasons, holidays, computers including over a dozen educational and fun programs, music program and cooking. We have daily painting and crayons, markers and colored pencils always available as well as play dough that is made by the three-year-olds.
There is a large outdoor playground and indoor and outdoor sand boxes. All classrooms have dress-up and playhouse areas, kindergarten blocks and manipulatives (a variety of puzzles and construction toys).
The three-year-old classes go on four trips: hayride at the pumpkin farm, pet store, supermarket (a behind the scenes tour for our Community Helpers Unit), and an end-of-the-year trip to a local park. In June we have a “Moving-Up Ceremony” for all our three-year-olds.
Children in this class need to be three years old by December 31 and must be toilet trained before school begins.
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