3K FOR ALL Program
3K FOR ALL AT IVY PREP EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY
D.O.E 3K fOR ALL aGES 3 - 4
- In New York City, you can apply to 3-K in the calendar year that your child turns three. 3K FOR ALL brings FREE, full-day, high-quality education to three-year-old children 5 days week from 8:30a.m to 2:50p.m. We do offer earlier and extended hours at additional costs. Please see more information under Wrap Around Program for 3K/PRE-K. During the D.O.E 3K FOR ALL program at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy, your 3 years old can continue to develop learning strategies that he or she can utilize in PRE-K. Click the link in the blue box to apply! Myschools.NYC
- Bayside Location School Code: QBGS
- Bronx Location School Code: XANI
- Staten Island School Code: RAIT
3K for aLL Program Curriculum at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy
The Creative Curriculum is ranked #1 for Preschool Curriculum which is why Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy is proud to utilize it in our 3k classrooms. Our schools empower children to be confident, unique, and caring learners through play-based, hands-on investigations, a research-based approach that incorporates language, literacy, mathematics, physical movements, social interactions and fun throughout the day.
We build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through interactive, project-based investigations. We promote discovery and inquiry with opportunities for children to think critically and develop process skills with rich, engaging relevant and interesting topics in the classroom. We also reinforce learning by supporting family-friendly activities designed for home.
Our teachers utilize resources designed specifically to support the unique demands of each day in a three’s preschool program. Teachers and caregivers can provide children with the opportunity to develop secure attachments through developmentally appropriate resources that allow them to gain confidence as learners.
Every child is different, so it’s no surprise that they learn differently, too. Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy meets three year olds exactly at their level with The Creative Curriculum’s unique color-coded progression that shows the typical development of milestones from 3 to 4 years of age.
Tracking Your Child’s Development
Along with tracking the above, we will also track to make sure your child is developing socially, cognitively, physically, and verbally with his/her age group.
- Communicates with adults about recent activities
- Shows enthusiasm for the company of other children
- Makes and maintains a friendship with at least one other child
- Takes turns during play with peers
- Communicates with other children to solve problems
- Approaches other children positively
- Seeks out other children to play with
- Follows familiar routines
- Begins to transition between activities
- Asks simple questions
- Asks “w” questions
- Asks others for information
- Seeks and takes pleasure in new skills and experiences
- Asks to join in play
- Selects new activities during play time
- Wants to favorite activities over and over again
- Focuses on tasks of interest to him/her
- Seeks assistance when encountering a problem
- Expresses ideas through art, construction, movement, or music
- Responds appropriately to a request
- Identifies all body parts
- Uses new vocabulary in everyday experiences
- Uses three to four-word sentences with noun and verb
- Uses adjectives in phrases
- Follows multi-step directions
- Beings to recall parts of a story
- Requests to hear familiar stories
- Predicts what will happen next
- Changes intonation and tone to communicate meaning
- Speaks clearly enough to be understood
- Follows nonverbal directions
- Participates and creates songs, rhymes, and games that play with sounds of language
- Recites all letters of the alphabet
- Knows the first and last page of a book
- Uses pictures to predict a story
- Expresses the title of a favorite book
- Begins to write name
- Walks runs, navigates obstacles and corners
- Climbs on play equipment
- Hops forward on one foot without losing balance
- Eats with utensils
- Stacks, sorts, and strings, items
- Copies shapes and geometric designs
- Begins to use a pincer grasp
- Demonstrates awareness of own body in space
- Participates in different physical activities
We want to make sure that all children are physically developing the way they are expected. So, to determine that your child is developing physically like those around him/her, we measure if:
- Expresses beginning understanding of cause and effect
- Shows understanding of same and different
- Generalizes ideas based on past experiences
- Applies new information or vocabulary to an activity
- Tries several methods to solve a problem before asking for assistance
- Draws or scribbles and explains what the drawing is
- Names some numerals
- Differentiates some letters from numerals
- Increasing understanding of duration of time
- Compares the size of various everyday objects
- Estimates size
- Creates or copies all simple shapes
- Sorts objects by one or more characteristic
- Identifies categories of objects
- Place objects in a specific order
- Uses all five senses
- Asks questions and finds answer through active exploration
- Identifies things as living or nonliving based on characteristics
- Identifies the weather