3 Year Old Program
Our 3 Year Old Program builds on the skills and concepts begun in our 2 Year Old class, but also serves as an excellent first school experience.
The following options are available for the 3 Year Old Program:
- Monday-Tuesday
- Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
- 5 Days
Classes are available for morning sessions only.
For rates, please visit our Tuition page.
3 Year Old Program Curriculum
Emotional Growth
- Provide a safe, healthy and secure environment away from home
- Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child
- Provide a nurturing atmosphere and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life
- Create an environment that encourages curiosity, discovery and exploration
- Provide experiences that will increase child’s positive self-image, sense of competence and pride in accomplishments
- Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative and independence
- Provide opportunities to increase attention span, including practice working independently, sitting still, concentrating, following directions and persevering until a task in finished
Cognitive Growth
- Provide learning activities in literacy
- receptive language
- expressive language
- pre-writing activities using crayons, pencils, pens, markers, finger paints and water paints with small brushes
- visual discrimination through matching, finding hidden objects, sequencing activities and color naming
- introductory activities for letter recognition
- Provide concrete activities in pre-math and logical thinking skills
- sorting, classifying and matching patterns
- sequencing and recalling sequence of events
- counting
- one-to-one correspondence
- beginning number recognition
- memory skills
- Provide learning experiences in science
- growing and the care of living things
- cooking activities
- gathering and collecting things from nature
- simple experiments
- Provide a wide range of art and music activities
- Facilitate creative and make-believe play
- with objects
- about situations
- assuming pretend roles
- interacting with other children
Social Growth
- Encourage building friendships among all class members
- Encourage sharing and taking turns
- Encourage and model understanding and respecting differences
- Encourage child to accept responsibility for maintaining classroom environment
- Encourage child to work cooperatively with others
- Encourage child to resolve conflicts constructively
- Provide child opportunities to practice thoughtfulness and giving
Physical Growth
- Provide opportunities for large muscle development, muscle and limb control
- Provide opportunities for small muscle development
- Provide opportunities to develop spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, balance and coordination
- Encourage good habits of health and safety
Spiritual Growth
While Bella Bee Academy maintains a non-faith based environment, we do teach rules of life and good citizenship:
- Encourage and model showing love for one another
- Guide in development of ecological values and concern for our world
- Help children recognize differences and likenesses in people and show acceptance
- Provide learning experiences about each holiday
- Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern
