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Pre-school

Your preschooler is growing up fast, potty-trained and eager to learn new things. At this age, your child is more coordinated and is absorbing lots of information every day. 

 

At Little Sunshine’s Playhouse, your child’s day is carefully planned out with a variety of hands-on activities to encourage learning and socialization. Your child is taught to write their name and recognize letters, numbers, colors and shapes. Preschool teachers introduce concepts like opposites, identifying emotions and basic directional skills. At this age, we also put a large focus on teaching self-awareness and fostering independence by helping your child master their self-help skills.

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We design our preschool classrooms with these developmental milestones in mind and equip each classroom with age-appropriate, educational toys to help continue inspiring your child’s curiosity and desire to learn and engage with their classmates and their environment. 

3 - 4 years

  • Hops and stands on one foot up to 5 seconds

  • Goes upstairs and downstairs without support

  • Kicks ball forward

  • Throws ball overhand 

  • Catches bounced ball most of the time 

  • Moves forward and backward

  • Uses riding toys

  • Shows interest in new experiences 

  • Cooperates/plays with other children 

  • Plays “mom” or “dad”

  • More inventive in fantasy play 

  • Dresses and undresses 

  • More independent

  • Often cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality 

  • May have imaginary friends or see monsters

  • Copies square shapes 

  • Draws a person with 2 to 4 body parts

  • Uses scissors 

  • Draws circles and squares 

  • Begins to copy some capital letters

  • Feeds self with spoon

  • Understands the concepts of “same” and “different”

  • Has mastered some basic rules of grammar 

  • Speaks in sentences of 5 to 6 words 

  • Asks questions 

  • Speaks clearly enough for strangers to understand

  • Tells stories

  • Correctly names some colors 

  • Understands the concept of counting and may know a few numbers

  • Begins to have a clearer sense of time

  • Follows three-part commands 

  • Recalls parts of a story 

  • Engages in fantasy play 

  • Understands causality (“I can make things happen”)

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