3K FOR ALL Program
3K FOR ALL AT IVY PREP EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY
Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy offers the 3K for All program, providing FREE, full-day education for children ages 3 to 4 in New York City. Families can apply during the calendar year their child turns three. Our program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., five days a week, with options for earlier and extended hours available at an additional fee. This initiative helps children develop essential learning strategies for Pre-K.
Enrollment Information
To enroll your child in the 3K for All program, please use the following codes for our locations:
Bayside
School Code: QBGS
Bronx
School Code: XANI
Staten Island
School Code: RAIT
The Creative Curriculum
Utilizing The Creative Curriculum, ranked #1 for preschool education, Ivy Prep empowers children to become confident, unique, and caring learners. Our approach involves play-based, hands-on investigations that integrate language, literacy, mathematics, and social interactions throughout the day. This research-driven curriculum ensures a fun and engaging learning environment.
Promoting Critical Thinking and Confidence
Our program focuses on building confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through interactive, project-based investigations. Children are encouraged to explore engaging topics that promote inquiry and discovery, reinforcing their learning with family-friendly activities designed for reinforcement at home.
Individualized Learning Experience
Recognizing that every child learns differently, Ivy Prep tailors its approach to meet the unique needs of three-year-olds. We utilize The Creative Curriculum’s color-coded progression to track developmental milestones from ages 3 to 4. This individualized attention allows our educators to provide support and foster secure attachments, essential for building confident learners.
Tracking Development
We not only monitor academic progress but also track social, cognitive, physical, and verbal development. This holistic approach ensures that each child is growing appropriately within their age group, helping parents understand their child's progress through key developmental markers.
Enroll Your Child into Early Learning Opportunities
Start your child's educational journey with the 3K for All program at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy. Experience the benefits of high-quality, individualized early education.
- 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