3 Year Old Program

Craft time will encourage creativity while enhancing fine motor skills through cutting, coloring and writing. Cooperative games, gym time and outdoor activities will enhance gross motor skills. Children will utilize math manipulatives to teach sorting, order, patterning, number identification and other mathematical concepts. Language skills will be taught through rhyming, letter identification, manipulatives, circle time, dramatic play and songs. Children will learn to identify their feelings while developing relationships with both adults and other children.

Field trips, in-house visits from community leaders and outdoor activities (including sledding) will allow for increased social and emotional learning.

Student Ratio 1:5

"Not only is our son learning about the alphabet, colors and other academic areas, he is learning how to 'be' with and treat others, all within the context of God's love. My heart warms every time I see his little 3 year old hands fold in prayer when we say grace, or someone says a prayer! What a gift! As a parent, the most wonderful part about sending my child off to preschool is that I know he is truly LOVED by the teachers. You can see it in their faces everyday...I feel it and most importantly, he feels it!" - Bridget Antonelli

• Language Arts
  • Expose children to printed names daily
  • Utilize nursery school songs and Christian songs that rhyme
  • Daily Story time
  • ID letters and their sounds
  • Teach children how to write their names
  • Provide structure and unstructured play to teach children how to follow directions, use of appropriate language, tone and volume

• Math
  • Use of circle and calendar time to teach order/patterning/matching and comparing
  • Teach shapes through pictures/movement/games/crafts

• Science
  • Teach a variety of science material through calendar time, crafts, sand/water table, free time and games

• Social Science
  • Emphasize self-concept, identification of feelings, responsibility, honesty, sharing, respect and kindness
  • Provide a nurturing and loving environment to gain trust and assist in the separation of child/parent

• Faith Development
  • Grow in the security of Jesus’ love and care
  • Celebrate Jesus
  • Recognize the Bible as God’s Word
  • Know that Jesus gives people to love and care for them
  • Grow in ability to show Jesus’ love to friends
  • Thank Jesus for his friendship
  • Praise God
  • Grow in appreciation for God’s goodness
  • Learn that God created the animals, plants the world and us!
  • Teach children the importance of praying