The Three Year Old program stresses both social and academic skills equally. Learning to listen, converse, share and interact well with one another are encouraged as an integral part of development at this age. Class projects might involve a skills activity or themes such as seasons, holidays, life on a farm, transportation, community helpers and sea creatures. Specific skills include counting, patterns, sequencing, size comparisons, mazes, tracking, matching, shapes, colors and alphabet sound and recognition. Music and storytime are shared for both amusement and development of auditory skills. Weather permitting each session ends with free time on our playground.
The class goes on several trips throughout the school year including Benner’s Farm, a ride on the train from Port Jefferson Station to Smithtown and a day at West Meadow Beach. An annual “Mother’s Day Tea” gives the children a chance to perform some of the songs and finger plays they have learned and share the treats they have baked in class with their moms. At the end of the year parents are invited to attend a stepping over ceremony where the children sing and are congratulated on all their accomplishments throughout the year.