Discoverers
3 year olds
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About the Discoverer at My Baby Steps Academy
Our pre-school program places emphasis on building skills vital to success in pre-school, such as developing social tactfulness and respect for others, a strong sense of confidence, and mastery of gross motor skills. Using age-appropriate lessons, our teachers encourage cooperative play as well as collaborative problem-solving. At the same time, our program strengthens children’s skills in core academic areas, such as literacy, math, and science, to ensure readiness for pre-school, while also exposing them to a variety of elective activities including art, computers, music, dance, fitness, and wellness to encourage creativity while developing problem-solving and decision making skills from an early age.
Language Arts & Literacy
Our teachers use age-appropriate books as your child listens to and retells stories, asks questions and shares ideas. Language development is also strengthened through individual and small-group activities in our Dramatic Play and Library learning centers.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Singing to learn the Spanish words for parts of the body.
- Practicing writing letters of our names outside with sidewalk chalk.
- Exploring unfamiliar vocabulary.
Mathematics
Our teachers guide your 3-year-old through creating sets and counting beads and blocks. This helps them build a foundation for math and solve simple problems.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Making a graph of our favorite colors.
- Building towers in the Blocks and Transportation learning center and counting the number of blocks used.
Science
We put your 3-year-old’s natural sense of wonder to work, teaching them about people, plants, animals and our environment through hands-on activities.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Reading “Sunflower House” then planting our own sunflower seeds and talking about what we see as we watch them grow.
- Using clay and aluminum foil to explore what sinks and floats in our water sensory table.
Social & Emotional Development
In our learning centers, our teachers guide your 3-year-old through activities that help develop a sense of self while helping them build and maintain positive relationships.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Reading to build self-awareness and confidence as a unique individual.
- Learning about other cultures through storytelling and dances from around the world.
Gross & Fine Motor Development
We provide the environment, activities and materials needed to help your 3-year-old’s muscles grow. Through fun daily activities, our teachers give your child the opportunities, motivation and encouragement to develop new skills.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Practicing simple yoga stretches and poses outside.
- Building coordination by fitting pegs in peg boards.
- Bouncing and catching a ball.
Character Essentials
Character education is integrated into everything we do to support the ideas and skills your 3-year-old is already learning. Our teachers guide your child through activities that build upon positive character traits, like responsibility, leadership, empathy and forming healthy relationships.
3-Year-Old Activities
- Learning about emotions by discussing how events in a story make the characters feel.
- Learning about cooperation by working together to paint scenery for a puppet show.
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