Three Year Olds

TGS Kidz Academy's Preschool Program's ultimate goal is to prepare your child to successfully enter kindergarten in two years, and to become a successful lifetime learner. Throughout the three-year preschool curriculum, which encompasses early Preschool, Preschool and then Pre-Kindergarten, your child will acquire a full breadth of developmental skills necessary to successfully enter kindergarten eager and ready to learn.

Our implementation of the Creative & Abeka Curriculum comprised of weekly plans that support and extend monthly themes is filled with activities designed to meet the needs of all types of learners. Daily group times and enrichments are designed to expand a child’s vocabulary and knowledge of the world around them. Multiple activities support the theme and learning center additions which are included in each lesson. TGS Kidz Academy also enriches its curriculum through music, which is professionally written and recorded to reinforce concepts. In addition to the core curriculum, supplemental units are provided on a quarterly basis. Weekly lesson plans are posted to keep parents informed about their child’s learning experience at TGS Kidz Academy.

Developmental Milestones

• Shows interest in using various creative materials to form new objects
• Eye-hand coordination comes more easily
• Enjoys using body to run, jump, climb stairs, throw, and kick
• Can use sentences to relate simple stories
• Asks questions to define events
• Develops dependable bathroom habits
• Finds pride in self-defined activities
• Demonstrates awareness for the feelings of others

Creative Curriculum Developmental Domains and Goals

• Social-Emotional Development
• To promote sense of self
• To encourage responsibility for self and others
• To encourage pro-social behavior
• Physical Development
• To promote gross motor skills
• To promote fine motor skills
• Cognitive Development
• To promote learning and problem solving skills
• To encourage logical thinking
• To promote representational and symbolical thinking
• Language Development
• To develop listening and speaking skills
• To develop reading and writing skills

Some of the activities through which learning takes place are: Stories - both listened to and created, Music - songs, rhythms, instruments, and body movements, Exploring and creating using many different art forms, Play through active participation and interaction, Riding and climbing on developmentally appropriate equipment in the playroom, Skills - cutting, pasting, block building, skipping, hopping, jumping, playing games, Visual aids - creating a rich background for readiness for reading, Number concepts - understanding numerals from 1 to 50, Science - study of plant and animal life in the world around us, and field trip adventures and development of large muscle coordination on the playground equipment.

Early Preschool teachers choose from over 100 learning activities tied to specific learning objectives. Teachers choose from these learning activities based on which of the objectives your child needs more focus on. In covering the learning objectives your child will be involved in activities that promote Language & Communication Development, Cognitive Development, Creativity and the Arts, Physical Development, and Personal & Social Development.

Developmental Milestones

• Shows interest in fine motor skills like coloring and cutting
• Enjoys using body for large motions: running, dancing, kicking
• Can form phrases and small sentences
• Identifies names with people and objects
• Begins to recognize that others have feelings
• Attempts to regulate toilet habits
• Uses body to express emotions

Developmental Goals

• To encourage and promote a positive self-image
• To encourage language development and concrete thinking skills
• To encourage creative development
• To begin developing attention span
• To encourage healthy toilet training
• To promote physical development and sound nutrition

We use a combination of the Creative Curriculum and Abeka Curricula together because ittranslates research and theory from the field of early childhood education into a practical, easy-to-understand approach to working with children and their families. It is a combined comprehensive curriculum with a clear organizational structure and a particular focus on routines and experiences that our two year olds need.

More About All of Our Programs

TGS Kidz Academy offers an exceptional educational program that introduces academics through fun activities that not only invigorate the mind of a child but also boost independence, confidence and self-esteem.  We challenge our children with a curriculum that captures their imagination, and a learning environment where they can make discoveries, solve problems, and think independently.

We believe that no one method of instruction is all comprehensive, we have drawn from several approaches and use traditional and progressive methods of instruction to develop a well rounded curriculum that encourages the social, academic, and emotional growth of the child. 

TGS Kidz Academy uniquely designed curriculum, provides developmentally appropriate learning that is challenging, stimulating and meets the needs of infants through school-age children.  Fascinating themes, combined with learning objectives, aid our teachers with planning learning experiences through music, art, fine and gross motor, language, evolving math and literacy, movement and drama. Our curriculum has a strong literature component. We believe that children become readers and writers by having someone read to them and many opportunities to express their thoughts and feelings through print. Our curriculum offers teachers hundreds of activities to choose from, each of which that is fixed to a specific learning objective.

Your children will not only make the developmental progress necessary for a successful transition to kindergarten, they will love the activities that get them there.

Additionally, our curriculum is based on the premise that children learn through active and direct interaction with materials with the adults who facilitate children’s learning. Manipulatives, puzzles, games and art materials stimulate "hands-on" learning and concrete learning experiences. We also know that children do not learn skills in isolation. Shapes, colors, numbers, letters and phonemic awareness are used throughout each day to give children a strong readiness foundation. We are always looking for fun and interesting ways to stimulate children’s learning.

At TGS Kidz Academy we feel we can make a difference in the lives of children and their teachers, and that we are responsible for the "whole" child. Our curriculum includes experiences with real works of art and classical music. Nevertheless, our children are never too young to learn about honesty, patience, or friendship. The combination of these to our curricula ensures your child will cover all the necessary readiness standards of successfully and confidently moving ahead to the next steps in life.