3 Year Old Preschool Objectives

These are the things I would like for Princess #2 to know by the time we finish "school" this year


Bible Skills

• Bible Verse Memory- one per month
• Godly Behavior
• Daily Prayer
• Biblical character traits
• Proper behavior in church
• Familiar with short bible songs

Pre-Math Skills

• Number recognition 1-10
• Number Counting 1-20
• Understands comparisons (Big, bigger, biggest)
• Understands spatial awareness
• Counting and Sorting Objects
• Memory and matching skills
• Simple patterning recognition and reproduction
• Stringing beads

Pre-Reading Skills

• Proper care of books
• Left to right movement
• Correct pencil placement
• Story-picture recognition
• Identify all letters in sequence
• Identify shapes
• Identify colors
• Beginning understanding of opposites
• Name recognition
• Memorize short nursery rhyme or saying
• Tracing
• Understanding the difference between statements, questions, and comments

Science Skills

• Calendar recognition
• Seasons/holidays
• Weather
• Animal behavior
• Health and Hygiene
• Five Senses
• Identify basic body parts

Artist Sills

• Playdough manipulation
• Painting by color
• Coloring within lines
• Cutting with scissors
• Pasting
• Creative free expression and exploration

Musical Sills

• Understands musical contrasts (soft, loud, fast, slow)
• Dancing and creative music
• Introduce various styles of music
• Introduction to rhythm activities
• Introduction instrument identification

Gross and Fine Motor Skills

• Understand "jump", "climb", "run", "pedal" "catch"
• Games
• Outside Activities
• Obstacle course
• Lacing
• Puzzles
• Cutting
• Pasting

Listening Skills

• Following 2 step directions
• Sit during one short story
• Nursery Rhymes
• Repeat directions

Dramatic Play

• Show and tell
• Puppets

Creative Dress Up

Housekeeping

Cooking

Encourage independent play

Self-Care Skills

• Wiping in bathroom
• Washing hands
• Putting on clothes
• Putting shoes on right feet
• Blowing nose
• Covering mouth with sneezing and coughing
• Obtaining and returning objects in correct places

Social Skills

• Familiar with different occupations
• Familiar with different parts of the community
• Familiar with different modes of transportation
• Familiar with own address and phone number
• Familiar with parents given name
• Obeying teachers/authority figures
• Having another adult other than parent as a leader
• Being patient for a turn
• Can sit still during a short circle time
• Learning manner, being poliet
• Speaking kindly to family members
• Standing in line patiently
• Respect God, adults and others
Giving a receiving forgiveness

Learning to appreciate family members

Emotional Skills

• Work independently
• Can "share" parent attention
• Expresses fustration in an appropriate manner
• Can deal with changes easily