Curriculum for Threes

Capture three-year-olds’ natural curiosity with Curriculum for Threes! Each topic offers many ideas and suggestions for you to create meaningful and engaging investigations. Curriculum for Threes:

  • Allows you to choose from over 125 learning experiences integrated across all learning domains.
  • Provides new language and social navigation skills.
  • Contains a wealth of support materials including posters, storybooks, family newsletters, and much more.

The objectives listed below are a sample of the range addressed in Curriculum for Threes program:

Language Development

  • Uses increasingly complex sentences
  • Uses language to communicate ideas, feelings, needs, questions, etc.

Literacy

  • Begins to understand story sequence
  • Communicates through scribbling

Mathematics

  • Compares quantities of two groups of objects
  • Sorts objects by color, size, or shape

Science

  • Utilizes different methods to solve problems
  • Classifies items that belong together

Creative Expression

  • Names different shapes, lines, colors, forms, and materials
  • Dances with control

Social and Emotional Development

  • Recognizes familiar places in the community
  • Begins to understand how his or her actions affect others

Approaches to Learning

  • Approaches activities with increased imagination and inventiveness
  • Concentrates increasingly on tasks or interactions

Physical Health and Development

  • Develops increasing hand-eye coordination (stringing beads, using scissors, etc.)
  • Becomes more self-sufficient in using tissues, washing hands, and other self-help skills