Goals for Three-Year-Olds

Social Emotional

• Children will feel safe and happy within the environment and experience successful separation from parents
• Children will learn self-regulation skills
• Children will learn how to play cooperatively, work together, take turns, and establish friendships.
• Children will express their needs to teachers and peers.
• Children will learn conflict resolution skills.
• Children's self-esteem will grow and be nurtured.
• Children will develop empathy toward their peers.

Self Help Skills

• Children will be encouraged to learn good health practices including blowing their nose.
• Children will learn to take their jackets on and off.
• Children will learn to take their shoes on and off.
• Children will be encouraged to dress themselves.

Fine and Gross Motor Skills

• Children will work on the following fine motor skills: proper grasping of scissors and writing instruments, cutting. lacing, pre-writing pincer grasp and overall fine motor strength.
• Children will work on the following gross motor skills: jumping, stretching, tumbling, catching a ball, galloping, pedaling a bike. climbing outside on the equipment and balancing on one foot.

Cognitive

• Children will develop listening skills and be able to follow one and two step directions.
• Children will be able to sit and participate in circle time.
• Children will develop memory and retention skills.
• Children will learn to count to 15 and quantify up to 5.
• Children will learn basic pattern and sequencing skills.
• Children will learn their first and last names and learn to recognize their name in print.
• Children will learn letter recognition of upper case and some lower case letters.
• Children will say the alphabet (rote memory)