Triangle Grace Preschool
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    • Contact Us
    • Employment at Triangle Grace Preschool
  • About Us
    • Our Staff
    • Parent Comments
    • Triangle Grace Church
  • Admissions
    • Programs Offered
    • Tuition & Fees
    • Enrollment Forms
  • Curriculum
    • 2 years old Developmental Goals
    • 3 years old Developmental Goals
    • 4 years old Developmental Goals
    • 5 years old Developmental Goals
  • Calendar and Handbook
  • Parents
    • Orientation Information
    • Parenting Resources
  • Fundraising
    • Harris Teeter #2948
    • Spirit Nights
    • Holiday Bazaar

Developmental Goals for 3 years old

Social and Emotional Skills
  • Respect and shows concern for others
  • Accepts and responds to teacher’s suggestions and authority
  • Begins to play cooperatively with others
  • Is learning Conscious Discipline routines and language
  • Involved in and attending activities for a longer period of time
  • Engages in circle time
  • Participates in prayer and music and movement

Fine Motor Skills
  • Colors with crayons with increasing control
  • Holds crayon with fingers rather that fist
  • Begins to write name in capital letters
  • Applies glue 
  • Strings beads
  • Draws combination of simple shapes (i.e. house, person)
  • Begin to draw a person
  • Begins to cut with scissors
  • Puts together 6-7 piece puzzle
  • Begins to build simple and then more complex structures

Gross Motor Skills
  • Throws and catches large ball
  • Jumps on two feet in place
  • Walks upstairs and downstairs alone
  • Kicks a ball forward
  • Negotiates playground equipment

Language/Literacy Skills
  • Shows increasing awareness of print in classroom (i.e. names)
  • Verbalizes wants and ideas
  • Points to six body parts when named
  • Names body parts (head, hands, arms, knees, legs, chin, feet and face parts)
  • Begins to demonstrate concepts of books
  • Listens quietly to stories
  • Responds to a story by answering questions
  • Communicates in sentences- 5-6 words
  • Beginning to take turns speaking in a group
  • Repeats rhymes, songs, and finger plays
  • Uses I, you, me, he, and she appropriately
  • Understands some opposites words like up/down; open/closed; stop/go; happy/sad; slow/fast; hot/cold
  • Understands some prepositions like in, out, over, under, on, off, top, bottom, in front of, in back of
  • Shows an increase in vocabulary
  • Follows two step directions
  • Recognizes name

Self-Reliance Skills​
  • Helps put things away
  • Tells own full name, sex, and age
  • With little or no help continues to develop self-help skills (i.e. toileting, hand washing, putting on shoes and coat-zipping)

Math and Science Skills
  • Can name basic shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle)
  • Begins to sort
  • Can identify some colors
  • Can count up to 4 objects (1:1 correspondence)
  • Counts 1-10
  • Begins to understand sizing concepts
  • Begins to observe things in the environment

Triangle Grace Preschool 
5001 Tudor Place, Durham, NC 27713
919-544-2872 (phone)
​919-361-2782 (fax)