Hicksville Nursery School 

 
"Hicksville Cooperative Nursery School has been so beneficial to our son's development, academically and socially.  Our son's teacher has been the perfect blend of nurture and discipline".  Michael S., parent of child in our 3 year old program

For many children, entry into the 3s 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.  They learn collaboration through expressing their thoughts and ideas at circle time, and through socializing with peers.  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:

 Topics
                                             

• 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
• Weather
• Observing nature