Educational programs for 3 year olds: Preschool Programs for Ages 3

Опубликовано: March 15, 2023 в 6:29 pm

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20 best educational TV shows for preschool-age kids

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If you’re a parent taking care of kids through the pandemic with limited or no screen time, we salute you. That sounds hard. But if you’re OK with a few TV shows—or you aren’t, really, but you’re doing it anyway out of necessity—you may want to opt for a show with an educational element, just so they’re learning a few things. And yet, these shows also have to be good enough to hold your kid’s attention…

So, here are the best educational TV show for preschoolers that are also entertaining. We’re talking three year olds and four year olds here, but your mileage may vary; your two year old might enjoy some of these, and your five or six year old might, too.

Note: Any information provided about where/how to watch the shows is intended for Canadian readers, at time of publication.

Ask the Story Bots

Based on the award-winning educational apps, the StoryBots are curious little creatures who live in the world beneath our screens and go on fun adventures to help answer kids’ questions. Available on Netflix.

Sesame Street

A classic! On a very special city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschool subjects with comedy, cartoons, games, and songs. Available on YouTube.

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood

The adventures of the children of the characters of Fred Rogers’ Neighborhood of Make-Believe. Available on CBC Gem and Netflix.

Wild Kratts

Chris and Martin Kratt are brothers who explore the wild throughout the world to learn more about animals and share conservation information. Available on Netflix.

If I Were An Animal

Curious kids Emma and her big brother Tim observe different animals as they make their way through various life milestones, from birth to adulthood. Available on Netflix.

Dino Dana

Dana is a 9-year old girl who loves dinosaurs. Her life changes forever when she’s given a Dino Field Guide, which not only teaches her new things about dinosaurs, but gives her the power to imagine dinosaurs into real life. Available on TVO. You can also try Dino Dan.

Dinosaur Train

Friendly dinosaurs climb aboard a train to visit different times throughout the prehistoric age, learning about dinosaurs and having fun adventures. Available on PBS Kids’ YouTube channel.

Octonauts

An intrepid band of explorers roam the oceans in search of adventure and fun. Led by a valiant polar bear and a daredevil kitten, these eight talented critters are always ready to embark on an exciting new mission. Available on Netflix.

Sid the Science Kid

A young and curious boy constantly wonders the fields of science. Available on Netflix.

Peg + Cat

A spirited little girl named Peg and her sidekick Cat solve problems using foundational math concepts. Available on YouTube.

Super Why

Super WHY! helps children learn to read through interactive story adventures. Each 22-minute episode features a team of fairytale superheroes who soar into classic storybooks and use their unique reading-based powers to find answers to everyday preschool problems. Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

The Magic School Bus

Join Ms. Frizzle as the Magic School Bus travels to outer space, under the sea, through an anthill—and even inside the human body! Available on Netflix.

Let’s Go Luna

Leo the wombat, Carmen the butterfly, and Andy the frog travel around the world to learn about culture with their friend, Luna the moon.

Blippi

Energetic Blippi is known for his goofy mannerisms and friendly demeanor. Kids seem to love his fun personality and innovative teaching lessons.

One Strange Rock

This one isn’t exactly a kids’ show but many kids love it. It’s the extraordinary story of Earth and why it is special and uniquely brimming with life among a largely unknown but harsh cosmic arena; astronauts tell the story of Earth through unique perspective. Available on Disney+

Puffin Rock

Puffin Rock follows the adventures of Oona, her little brother Baba, and their family and friends on a gorgeous and wild Irish island. Available on Netflix.

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!

With the help of fish, thing 1, and thing 2; the Cat in the Hat teaches kids about many things through song and games. Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.

Space Racers

Join the students at Stardust Space Academy, while they go on missions to learn new facts while having fun. With engaging and fun characters the leader of the Space Racers, and Hawk. Available on Netflix.

Molly of Denali

An action-adventure comedy that follows the adventures of feisty and resourceful 10-year-old Molly Mabray, an Alaska Native girl, her dog Suki, and friends Tooey and Trini on their adventures in epically beautiful Alaska. Available on CBC Gem.

SciShow Kids

This is a YouTube channel, not a show, but we love the short (four-minute) episodes, the quick pace, the engaging host and the variety of topics covered. Available on YouTube.

Family Resources | Texas Education Agency

Why does prekindergarten matter?

Attending high quality prekindergarten makes a big difference for small children. Children who go to high-quality 3- and 4-year-old prekindergarten enter school ready to learn and be successful, confident learners.

What does high-quality mean?

High-quality prekindergarten provides a learning environment that inspires curiosity, builds confidence, and fosters a love of learning. In high-quality prekindergarten, children learn essential skills for being successful in school like:

  • Paying attention
  • Following 2-3 step directions
  • Learning lots of new vocabulary words for objects and ideas that help them to comprehend what they read and hear
  • Learning the ABCs and the sounds associated with each letter
  • Learning how to read and write short words including their name
  • Learning numbers from 1-20 and counting
  • Sequencing, sorting and problem solving skills that will help them with reading and math
  • Following daily routines
  • Taking turns, sharing and appropriately communicating with others
  • Building strength and coordination of muscles for academic and nonacademic activities
  • Exploring
  • Asking questions
  • Seeking answers
  • Building confidence as learners and a positive relationship with school

There are specific expectations and requirement for high-quality prekindergarten programs that can be found on the HQPK page.

Kindergarten Readiness Statement

TEA supports high-quality prekindergarten that is developmentally appropriate, multi-sensory, and experiential. Young children thrive when provided a learning environment that inspires curiosity, builds confidence, and fosters a love of learning. 

Children are “ready” for school when families, schools, and communities work together to ensure they enter school with strong foundational knowledge and skills across 5 primary domains of development. Although separate, these domains are interconnected and development in one area reinforces development in the other. The primary domains of development are:

  • Physical – Gross and Fine Motor
  • Literacy – Reading and Writing
  • Mathematical – Concepts and Thinking
  • Language and Communication
  • Health and Wellness

In order to provide high-quality early childhood education that is focused on the unique needs of each child, student progress monitoring and kindergarten readiness should be measured across multiple domains of development.

Is Your Child Eligible?

To find out if your child is eligible for free public 3-and 4-year old prekindergarten, see the FAQ page.

Together we can ensure that every child in Texas thrives!

Parent Guides

Strong family engagement in early childhood programs is central to promoting children’s healthy intellectual, physical, and social-emotional development; preparing children for school; and supporting academic achievement in elementary school and beyond.

One way to promote strong family engagement is to equip families with tools to enhance and extend their child’s learning. These Parent Guides have been created to help families understand some of the things their child will learn each school year. These resource documents have been developed for Prekindergarten 3, Prekindergarten 4, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade and may be distributed to families at various times during the school year, including:

  • Beginning of school year and/or back-to-school events
  • Family conferences and/or home visits
  • When a new child enrolls in your class
  • End of school year in preparation for the following year
  • Family engagement events and activities

Use these documents to spark conversations and increase families’ knowledge on how they can support their child at home.

Prekindergarten Three-Year-Old Guide (Spanish version)
Prekindergarten Four-Year-Old Guide (Spanish version)
Kindergarten Guide (Spanish version)
First Grade Guide (Spanish version)
Second Grade Guide (Spanish version)

Free Developmental Screening Tools

Act Early Texas! provides parents and early childhood professionals with information designed to determine if a child is developing similarly to other children his or her age. The tool is designed to answer the question, “Is this child’s development like other children of the same age?“

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also provides helpful information about numerous key development milestones that parents can look for with their children. 

CLI Engage for Parents

For over ten years, the Texas School Ready project has been supporting prekindergarten teachers in our common goal of improving children’s “school readiness”—the foundational knowledge children need to be prepared for Kindergarten. Through the new CLI Engage platform, we are excited to provide opportunities for parents to participate in the Texas School Ready! project too!

Prekindergarten Guidelines

The Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines are aligned with the Kindergarten Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), sequenced to follow child development and give teaching strategies for each of the guidelines. The guidelines offer educators the information and support to prepare all children for success in school.

Developmental Guidelines – 0-5 years old

Published in 2013, the Texas Infant, Toddler, and Three-Year-Old Early Learning Guidelines describe expectations about what children should know and be able to do across developmental domains of learning during specific age ranges, as well as what steps caregivers should take to support healthy development. 

Preschool, Head Start and Childcare

Looking for high-quality prekindergarten in your area?

Early Childhood Texas aims to provide families with young children easy access to Texas state agency programs, services, and resources. State agency partners include Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Education Agency, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, and Texas Department of State Health Services. Areas of resource and support include Health and Development, Parenting, Child Care and Education, and Eligibility Programs. 

Free 3- and 4-yr-old Public Prekindergarten

Many elementary schools in the state offer free public prekindergarten to eligible 4-year-old children (some offer 3-year-old prekindergarten as well).  Contact your closest elementary school or district administrative office and to obtain more information.

Head Start and Early Head Start

Head Start and Early Head Start programs support the mental, social, and emotional development of children from birth to age 5. In addition to education services, programs provide children and their families with health, nutrition, social, and other services. Head Start services are responsive to each child and family’s ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage.

The Texas Workforce Commission- Childcare Assistance

Parents who work, attend school or participate in job training may be eligible for financial assistance with child-care. Learn more on the Texas Child Care Solutions website.

Square Meals

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is a federally assisted meal program that provides lunches to more than 3 million Texas children in school and residential child care institutions.  The NSLP serves nutritious, low-cost or free lunches to students in public and non-profit private schools in Texas.

Texas Women, Infants and Children

WIC offers tips on breast feeding, formula and food packages that are based on the latest nutrition guidelines. The WIC food packages offer fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat milk, yogurt, and baby food in addition to cereal, eggs, juice, peanut butter and beans. Overall, WIC offers a variety of foods to help you make smart choices for you and your family.

Childcare Licensing, Health and Safety of Children and Elderly

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) works with communities to protect children, the elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It also works to protect the health and safety of children in daycare, as well as foster care and other types of 24-hour care. 

Children with Disabilities

In Texas, Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) is a state and federally mandated program for young children with disabilities ages 3-5. Eligible children with disabilities, ages 3-4, are entitled to receive a free appropriate public education (FAPE) under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Part B, Section 619 in the least restrictive environment (LRE) in accordance with their individual needs. Children who meet eligibility criteria may receive Early Childhood Special Education services in a variety of settings such as a prekindergarten classroom, in the home, or in community settings such as Head Start and preschool.  For resources and support, visit SpedTex.org, the Special Education Information Center for Texas. 

DADS – Texas Department of Health and Human Services

DADS offers home and community services for children with disabilities. Services may include medical care through Medicaid, attendant care in your home or modifying your home to make it easier for your child to live in. These services may be different than what is available through your local school district or other state agencies.   

Early Childhood Intervention

In Texas, children between the ages of birth and 36 months can receive services from Early Childhood Intervention (“ECI”) if their children need additional support to meet developmental milestones in areas such as language, motor development, adaptive behaviors such as feeding, or learning and play skills 

Child Support

Texas Attorney General’s Office — Division of Child Support

As the official child support enforcement agency for the State of Texas, the Office of the Attorney General provides services for parents who wish to obtain or provide support for their children.  

Other Services and Resources

Books Beginning at Birth

About Books Beginning at Birth

Books Beginning at Birth is a statewide program that provides young children birth to age 4 and their families access to books and resources to support the development of early literacy skills and foster a love of reading.

  • All families can access an open library of hundreds of high-quality digital children’s books accompanied by videos and at-home literacy activities.
  • Young children residing in opportunity zones are eligible to receive FREE print books sent to their homes or through a partner site in their community (subject to some restrictions, and limited supplies).

2-1-1

2-1-1 Texas is a program of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission that provides a registry of resources and services by zip code.  It is committed to helping Texas citizens connect with the services and resources they need.  

Texas School Ready

Texas School Ready! website

The Texas School Ready! program certifies early childhood programs across the state of Texas that demonstrate effective preparation of their students for kindergarten.

To find a Texas School Ready! certified classroom in your community, visit the Texas School Ready! website.

Educational games for children 3-4 years old

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Three years is the age of the researcher. The main thing for this age is acquaintance with objects and their qualities: shape, size, color, location in space, movement, etc. At the same time, during the game there is an opportunity to introduce the child to many concepts, to teach to establish patterns and evaluate relationships. The ability to identify the features of an object and, focusing on them, to compare objects is universal, applicable to any objects. Once formed and well developed, this skill will be transferred by the child to any situation requiring its use.

We would like to offer you some simple exercises that will allow you to conduct a developmental lesson with your child in a playful way.

    1. Game “Who is more?” – contributes to the formation of the concept of “one” and “many” in the child, and also introduces one of the ways of comparison. Hide your hands behind your back and at the same time show your child fingers – one or many. Accordingly, when you say “One”, show one finger, when you say “Many”, show any number of fingers – 2, 3, 4 or 5. Then invite the child, on command, to show their fingers with you – also one or many. Play with the child while he is having fun, it can be 1-2 minutes. Over time, add a comparison of the number of fingers, putting the palms together. For example, after the command “Many” you showed 3 fingers, and the child 5. The one who showed more fingers won. Checking, we explain how we found out who has more – we put each of his fingers to ours. Starting from the 4th finger, we say that you no longer have it, and he still has fingers, which means he has more.
    2. Game “What’s in the palm of your hand?” – develops attention and teaches to understand the logical construction “denial”. This game requires materials – chips (dice, circles, etc.) of three different colors that the child knows. For example, white, blue, yellow. We hide the chip in the palm and say “Not white and not yellow. Guess which one!” If the child says “Blue”, he guessed right – the chip goes to him. If you make a mistake, the chip goes to you. Change the role of the leader with the child, sometimes make special mistakes so that he “catch” you. At the end of the game, you can compare who has more chips (by pairing, as in the previous game).
    3. Exercise “Fold a circle” – develops perception and skills of synthesis and analysis. This exercise also requires materials – draw circles on white paper and cut them along the indicated lines:
    We invite the child to make a whole circle from the cut parts. At first, the details of each circle should be in separate envelopes so that the child does not have to choose which parts to add. Over time, if the child easily folds each circle, you can move on to a more complex option – when the details of 2-3 circles are given together. The task at the same time: “choose the necessary details and fold the circle.”
    If a child has difficulty constructing a figure, you can give him a sample – for example, stick a circle of the same details on an envelope.

An important condition for performing all these exercises is that the child is in a good mood, that he feels that he is doing well. Be sure to praise him for his success, and if it is not immediately possible to complete the task, praise him for his efforts and for his desire to complete. Remember that at 3 years old it is still very difficult for a baby to keep his attention on one thing, he is easily distracted and moves from one activity to another. When studying with a child, be sincere – the child should see and feel that you are also interested!

We wish you interesting and useful activities with your kids! And you can diversify classes by completing online tasks for children 3-4 years old on the Razumeikin website.

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Online classes on the Razumeikin website:

  • develop attention, memory, thinking, speech – namely, this is the basis for successful schooling;

  • help to learn letters and numbers, learn to read, count, solve examples and problems, get acquainted with the basics of the world around;

  • provide quality preparation of the child for school;

  • allow primary school students to master and consolidate the most important and complex topics of the school curriculum;

  • broaden the horizons of children and in an accessible form introduce them to the basics of various sciences (biology, geography, physics, chemistry).

Children’s games for children 2-4 years old

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Learn Words is a kids game that works great without a Wi-Fi connection. It is intended for children of preschool age – 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. Flash cards can become part of preschool education in kindergartens.
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