For many children, entry into the 3's provides their initial experience with school.  
Our program is designed to encourage exploration and create a feeling of safety and security in what may be their first experience away from home.  Children work with open ended materials such as blocks, sand, paint, crayons, paper,  play-dough, and puppets to express what they see and what it means to them.   Social skills are an important aspect of the development of three-year-old children.  We focus on such skills as sharing, communication, socialization, following directions, eye hand coordination, large and fine motor development.  

Other aspects of the three-year-old program are:

• Friends/getting acquainted
  
• Colors
• Shapes
• Apples/pumpkins
  
• Nursery Rhymes
• Forest Animals
• Insects/Butterflies
• Seasonal Change
• Holidays
  
• Five Senses
• Community Helpers
  

Reading Readiness Skills

• Visual discrimination
• Auditory discrimination
• Introduction to the alphabet
• Spelling first name
• Making comparisons
• Categories
• Same/different
• Listening for details  and information of a story.
• Vocabulary development
• following directions

Math Readiness Skills:

• Counting
• Numeral 1-10
• Matching/categorizing
• Shapes Sizes Sorting
• Spatial relations
• Ordering
• Understanding of time (yesterday, today, tomorrow & days of the week).

Science Experiences:

• Planting
• Animals & Insects
• Weather
• Observing nature