| Friendship and Kindness
In the 3 Year Old Program we continue the social and academic skills that were introduced in the Young 3's Program. For new students we strive to make the child's first school experience a positive and enjoyable one while creating a safe place for learning and making friends. Socialization is particularly stressed including instilling the values of friendship, sharing and kindness.
Through art and crafts and using examples from the environment around us we emphasize letter and number recognition along with shapes and colors. Every day at circle time we go around the room to each child and identify colors on their clothing and look around the room to identify shapes. The seasons and the calendar are discussed including days of the week, months, year etc. The children learn a new set of songs each month to celebrate the holidays and the season. Along with the songs the children enthusiastically use finger play and hand motions to incorporate large motor skills into the fun. In addition large motor skills are developed through playing at the playground, climbing through tunnels, and playing with the parachute, obstacle course and scooters.
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| Rainbow Rice
A perennial favorite of all the three year olds is playing with Rainbow Rice! A wonderful alternative to a sand/ water table during these winter months! If you do not have a sand/water table for indoors simply use a sweater box, deep tray, or large brownie pan to hold the rice.
Supplies needed:
Inexpensive long grain rice
A deep container to hold rice (sand/water table, sweater box, deep tray, large brownie pan etc)
Zippered sandwich bags
Various colors of liquid food coloring
A few squirts alcohol based hand sanitizer
Instructions:
Put rice in sandwich bags along with a few drops of one food coloring and a few drops hand sanitizer. Shake bag until color is distributed. Open bag and let dry. Repeat process using different colors in each bag.
Once rice has dried let the fun begin! Have your child pour and mix the different colors into the container. Use different sized funnels to show fast and slow. Add construction trucks, spoons, measuring cups and sand box toys. Bury large shells and toys for a treasure hunt. Have fun!
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