3 Year Old Preschool
The Preschool program at St. Viator School strives to provide every child with a faith-based child centered learning experience. We employ a multi-sensory, hands-on, child directed approach to learning that allows children to learn, grow, and explore at a comfortable pace.
Curriculum
Religion
Our program is linked to literature and is faith based. It includes the following areas:
God’s love makes me special
God’s love gives me Jesus
God’s love teaches me love
God’s gifts are precious
God’s love created the universe
Celebration of religious holidays
Reading Readiness
Our program is literature based and includes the following areas:
Name Recognition
Name Formation
Letter Recognition
Auditory and Visual Discrimination
Listening Comprehension
Memory Recall
Language Arts
Our Language Arts program extends our reading program and includes the following activities:
Literature Appreciation
Story Dictation
Finger Plays and Poems
Math Readiness
Our program is manipulative based, linked to Literature, and includes the following areas:
Recognition of Colors
Counting 0-20:
Counting and Grouping Objects
Measurement
Shapes and Patterns
Position, Sequencing, Classification, and Comparison
Matching
1-10 number recognition, and one to one correspondence
Science and Social Studies
Our program is a literature based hands-on experience that includes the following areas:
Social Studies Units:
Families
Friends
Holidays
Community Helpers
Transportation
Our World
Historical Figures
Careers
Science Units:
Insects
Spiders
The 5 Senses
Animals and Animal Habitats
Weather
Seasons
Plants and Seeds
Nutrition and Health
Dental Health
Additional Skills:
Fine Motor Skills:
Scissor skills
Tracing horizontal, vertical, and angles lines
Following a straight path, and following a curved path
Gross Motor Skills:
Running
Jumping
Skipping
Hopping (one foot, both feet)
Balancing (one foot, both feet)
Coordination
Self-Help Skills:
Zipping
Buttoning
Snapping
Hand Washing
Safety Awareness
Specials
Our program offers preschoolers the chance to participate in a variety of special classes
including:
Music
Library
Computer
Art Zone
Reading Buddies
The Preschool program at St. Viator School strives to provide every child with a faith-based child centered learning experience. We employ a multi-sensory, hands-on, child directed approach to learning that allows children to learn, grow, and explore at a comfortable pace.
Curriculum
Religion
Our program is linked to literature and is faith based. It includes the following areas:
God’s love makes me special
God’s love gives me Jesus
God’s love teaches me love
God’s gifts are precious
God’s love created the universe
Celebration of religious holidays
Reading Readiness
Our program is literature based and includes the following areas:
Name Recognition
Name Formation
Letter Recognition
Auditory and Visual Discrimination
Listening Comprehension
Memory Recall
Language Arts
Our Language Arts program extends our reading program and includes the following activities:
Literature Appreciation
Story Dictation
Finger Plays and Poems
Math Readiness
Our program is manipulative based, linked to Literature, and includes the following areas:
Recognition of Colors
Counting 0-20:
Counting and Grouping Objects
Measurement
Shapes and Patterns
Position, Sequencing, Classification, and Comparison
Matching
1-10 number recognition, and one to one correspondence
Science and Social Studies
Our program is a literature based hands-on experience that includes the following areas:
Social Studies Units:
Families
Friends
Holidays
Community Helpers
Transportation
Our World
Historical Figures
Careers
Science Units:
Insects
Spiders
The 5 Senses
Animals and Animal Habitats
Weather
Seasons
Plants and Seeds
Nutrition and Health
Dental Health
Additional Skills:
Fine Motor Skills:
Scissor skills
Tracing horizontal, vertical, and angles lines
Following a straight path, and following a curved path
Gross Motor Skills:
Running
Jumping
Skipping
Hopping (one foot, both feet)
Balancing (one foot, both feet)
Coordination
Self-Help Skills:
Zipping
Buttoning
Snapping
Hand Washing
Safety Awareness
Specials
Our program offers preschoolers the chance to participate in a variety of special classes
including:
Music
Library
Computer
Art Zone
Reading Buddies