Preschool 3 Registration

Preschool 3 Registration Information

Our preschool has over 20 Years of Experience!

We want to personally welcome your child to the Southtowns Catholic Preschool. The first year in school is a great adventure away from home for children and is very important to later achievement in school.

The following information will assist you in helping your child make the happiest and best possible adjustment to Preschool and the many experiences of school. We feel that this information presented can help your child reach his/her potential.

Why Preschool?

The aim of Preschool is to provide a basic foundation for your child’s education. It is a program geared to make the transition from home to school as smooth as possible and to make each child’s first experience with school a successful and enjoyable one.

The Southtowns Catholic Preschool program is designed to help stimulate a good self-concept, providing each child with many experiences of achievement. Preschool children will work and create independently and learn to cooperate with others in a group. The program will provide opportunities for social and emotional development, inspire language development, and expand physical and mental growth.

How Parents can Help:

Let your child share in-home responsibilities, conversations, and activities.
Give your child duties around the house to develop self-confidence and responsibility. (Putting away toys, setting the table, helping with siblings, etc.)
Establish a regular pattern for sleep, meals, and play.
Teach your child to get dressed independently (how to put on, take off, and hang outer clothing).
Be sure your child listens to others and follows directions (one at a time) and check to see that the directions are carried out.
Teach your child to help others (brothers, sisters, pets)
Supervise television use.

Objectives of Preschool

What is Expected of your Preschool?

There are many developmental and cognitive (thinking) skills that a child is expected to perform while in Preschool. These skills help a child into a successful student. Some of these activities are:

- Getting into line when asked to do so.
- Taking care of personal belongings.
- Going to his/her seat quietly.
- Raising hand when wanting to speak.
- Following simple directions.
- Writing own name or part of name (when developmentally appropriate).
- Talking in front of class.
- Walking in hallways and outdoors safely.
- Taking papers home to parents.
- Listening to teacher and other students when they are speaking.
- Bringing notes to and from school, as well as other items that may be required for class that day.
- Being able to answer questions when called upon.

Gently encourage your child to perform these simple activities at school. Once these skills become second nature to your child, he/she will encounter greater success in school situations.

What is Preschool all about?

Your child’s first year in school is a new experience for parent and child alike. There are many things your child will learn to do that will be the cornerstone of his/her education.

In Preschool, your child will learn to:
- Work and play together
- Share
- Develop an interest in books
- Improve fine and gross motor skills
- Respect the rights of others
- Increase attention span
- Be a good listener
- Develop new interests and friends
- Express oneself
- Keep work areas clean
- Follow directions
- Use new vocabulary words
- Complete assigned tasks
- Make school a positive and enjoyable experience

Preschool 3 Health Requirements

Immunization records must be on file prior to the first day of school.

1. Immunization Requirements

3 does Oral or Injectable Polio
4 does DPT
1 dose MMR (Measles, Mumps & Rubella)
3 doses Hepatitis B
1 dose Varicella
1-4 doses Pneumococcal Conjugate
1-4 Hib

2. Physical Examinations
New York State Educational Law requires all new registrants and all students entering preschool, have a physical examination.

A copy of the most current physical exam must be on file prior to the first day of school.

3. Dental Examination
New York State Educational Law requires all Preschool registrants have proof of comprehensive dental examination.

3 Year Old Program

• 3 Year Old Program: 8:00am to 2:00pm
• Monday through Friday or Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Three Year Old Program Goal

Our Three Year Old Program is geared toward the abilities and attention span of three year olds. (The children who are 2 years away from kindergarten.) We help children develop social skills through play and interaction with adults as well as peers. We seek to provide cognitive development through concrete and "hands-on" activities. We engage children in both familiar and new experiences at a comfortable pace. Most of all, we strive to provide your child with a safe environment that is based on trust and affirmation.

Language Development

To develop ability to talk with others.
To become more expressive and to improve vocabulary.
To use verbal skills to solve problems.
To be able to listen to others.
To exchange ideas and ask questions.
To become familiar with nursery rhymes, stories, songs and poems.
To listen to stories and directions and retell them.
To improve ability for simple recall (remembering) and sequence (order).

Social and Emotional Development

To develop a positive self-image.
To follow directions.
To begin a development or responsibility.
To increase self-reliance.
To develop self-control.
To display good manners.
To enhance curiosity.
To explore new concepts and ideas.
To share belongings and experiences.
To respect other’s rights, to wait for turns.
To participate as part of a group.

Academic Growth
To master necessary basic concepts (in, on, under, beside, in front of, next to, in back of, etc.).
To develop an understanding of math readiness through counting, ordering and seriation of objects (largest to smallest), one-to-one correspondence.
To build reading readiness skills
Visually with color and shape identification, matching patterns, classifying objects and pictures and identifying similarities & differences.
Auditory by creating an awareness of sounds in the environment, clapping patterns through listening and recalling numbers or words (ta ta tee ta, or 4 3 7 2 etc.)

Physical Growth

To become aware of body parts and space.
To build fine motor skills (cutting, tracing on lines, stringing beads, drawing, etc.)
To develop large muscle coordination (hopping, jumping, walking backwards, etc.)

Religious Growth

To recognize that God made people, animals, plants and the world.
To learn and respectfully recite prayers with the class.
To treat others with kindness.

Readiness
Readiness skills are pre-reading skills needed before formal instruction begins.

These skills include:

Perceptual and auditory skills (visually seeing differences in objects or letters and listening to and hearing differences in sounds).
Motor skills (through general physical coordination or fine eye-hand coordination).
Language skills (through organizing thoughts and relating to others).
Listening Skills (giving attention and following directions).
Number knowledge (understanding size differences, names of numbers, etc.)
Showing a desire to read (enjoying books and readiness activities).

Programs

NYS Early Childhood Core Curriculum
Library, Art, Music & Gym
Phonics and Letter Recognition
Self-Help Skills
Fun Field Trips!

Preschool 3 Supply List

1 Box of Large Crayons (8 count)
2 Large Size Glue Sticks
Standard size backpack with 1 or 2 compartments only large enough for 9x13 paper.
Small Lunch Box or Snack Box
Change of clothes, including socks and underwear. Please put in a labeled bag.
1 Box of Tissues
Lysol Wipes

Wish List

Sealable quart and gallon bags
Paper towels