Curriculum Goals for 3 Year Old Classes
At SPS, our 3s classes spend every day learning through play! With specials like music, Spanish, P.E., and Library throughout the week plus a full half hour of recess every day, all of our children get a wonderfully full day of learning and moving. The 3s classes join our Pre-K classes for chapel on the first Tuesday of every month.
Cognitive Growth
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Provide learning activities in language arts.
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receptive language
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expressive language and increasing vocabulary
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pre-writing activities using crayons, pencils, pens, markers, and fingerpaints, water paints with small brushes
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visual discrimination through matching, finding hidden objects, sequencing activities, color naming
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introductory activities for letter recognition
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Provide concrete activities in pre-math and logical thinking skills.
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sorting, classifying, matching, patterns
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sequencing and recalling sequence of events
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counting
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one-to-one correspondence
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beginning number recognition
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memory skills
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Provide learning experiences in science.
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growing and the care of living things
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cooking activities
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gathering and collecting things from nature
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simple experiments
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activities to enhance observation skills and develop concepts such as same and different
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Provide a wide range of art and music activities.
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Facilitate creative and make-believe play
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with objects
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about situations
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assuming pretend roles
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interacting with other children
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Provide opportunities to express self through music, art, and movement.
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Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.
Physical Growth
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Provide opportunities for large muscle development, muscle and limb control.
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Provide opportunities for small muscle development.
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Provide opportunities to develop spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, balance and coordination.
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Encourage good habits of health and safety.
Emotional Growth
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Provide a safe, healthy and secure environment away from home.
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Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.
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Provide a nurturing atmosphere and become a significant, consistent adult in the child’s life.
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Create an environment that encourages curiosity, discovery and exploration.
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Provide experiences that will increase child’s positive self-image, sense of competence and pride in accomplishments.
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Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative, and independence.
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Provide opportunities to expand attention span, including practice working independently, sitting still, concentrating, following directions, and persevering until a task is finished.
Social Growth
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Encourage building friendships among all class members.
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Encourage sharing and taking turns.
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Encourage and model understanding and respecting differences.
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Encourage child to accept responsibility for maintaining classroom environment.
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Encourage child to work cooperatively with others.
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Encourage child to resolve conflicts constructively.
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Encourage child to share adults with other children.
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Encourage child to attempt to conform to rules and follow directions.
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Provide child opportunities to practice thoughtfulness and giving.
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Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.
Spiritual Growth
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Encourage and model showing love for each other.
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Demonstrate and encourage consciousness of God.
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Guide in development of ecological values and concern for God’s world.
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Help children recognize differences and likenesses in people and to show acceptance.
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Provide learning experiences about Christmas and Easter.
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Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern.