Three/Fours~

This classroom has very specific centers:

• Reading Center with books, puppets, and soft furniture

• Block Center with many types of blocks, animals, people, train table and cars

• Dramatic Play Center with kitchen, play food, baby dolls, doll furniture, and dress up clothes

• Listening Center with music and books on CD so they can listen with headphones

• Music Center with instruments

• Science Center with a class fish, magnets, textures, weighed materials, magnifying glasses and microscopes.

• Manipulative Center with interlocking blocks, sewing items, and puzzles

• Art Center with drawing, painting, gluing, and cutting materials.
• Circle time focuses on introducing the weekly theme, discussing the calendar, weather, colors, alphabet, numbers, and basic songs and skills.
• Children continue learning self help skills in this classroom and begin learning responsibility.  Children have jobs such as passing out items, holding a door, or feeding the class pet.  Learning to take turns, share, and clean up at the end of the day are also skills they are proud of.
• Children are able to spend time outside on our playground specified for preschoolers.  Gross motor activities are targeted as they can climb, slide, catch, jump and throw.
• Basic Spanish is introduced by teaching the children the Spanish words for items in the classroom, numbers (1-10), and colors.
• Three year olds are capable of learning routines and feel comfort in consistency.  Our teachers follow a daily schedule and have a weekly themed curriculum to engage your children in active learning.
• Positive reinforcement is essential for guiding appropriate behavior.  Children learn to use kind word from the examples they hear.