3s Program

Goals

All skills listed under 2s, plus:

Language and Cognitive Development

  • Displays understanding of numeracy, can count and point to up to 5 objects

  • Groups objects by size, shape, or color

  • Recognizes and names primary and secondary colors

  • Participates in give and take conversations

  • Contributes appropriate information to group discussions

  • Recognizes own written name

  • Exhibits appropriate book handling behaviors

  • Draws simple representational shapes

  • Finds alternate solutions to problems

  • Is curious about cause and effect

  • Applies new information and vocabulary to an activity or interaction

  • Notices similarities and differences

  • Figures out a logical order for a group of objects

  • Shows awareness of position in space

  • Uses context clues and illustrations to infer text

  • Can compare and predict story events

  • Uses scribble writing and letter-like forms

  • Follows directions of more than 2 steps

Social/Emotional Development

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  • Engages in cooperative play

  • Participates in group activities

  • Accepts direction

  • Enters into activities easily

  • Regains composure easily

  • Reacts appropriately to given situation

  • Expresses frustrations verbally, rather than physically

  • Recognizes feelings of self and others

  • Stands up for oneself

Motor Development

  • Runs with increasing coordination

  • Pedals a tricycle

  • Uses tripod grasp for pencils and paint brushes

  • Uses scissors correctly

  • Manipulates small objects with increasing coordination

Self-Help

  • Drinks from cup without spilling

  • Participates in clean-up

  • Puts on own coat

  • Uses spoon/fork without assistance

  • Pours liquid into cup with little spillage

  • Uses bathroom/washes hands independently

Judaic and Spiritual Development

  • Identifies Judaica (kippah, challah cover, kiddush cup, torah)

  • Identifies ritual objects associated with Jewish holidays (shofar, lulav and etrog, sukkah, hanukkiyah, megillah, seder plate, matzah, Israeli flag)

  • Recites blessings over different types of food

  • Recites Shabbat blessings

  • Understands that Shabbat is a special holiday, separate from the other days in the week

  • Understands that the synagogue is their home-away-from home

  • Feels that the sanctuary is a special place where we feel especially close to God

  • Sees Rabbi and Hazzan as teachers and special friends