CURRICULUM AND LEARNING
ENVIORNMENT:
The main goal of this childcare is to have fun, improve social skills, and encourage creative expression. We will utilize a variety of activities to accomplish this goal. Free play, reading, arts and crafts, music/singing,
dancing, dramatic play/pretend, puzzles, and educational TV/videos are just some of the activities we will be doing. We use Creative Curriculum to teach the children in our care.
This curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development,
Some of the activities include arts & crafts, music, math, science, stories, games, as well as letter, shape, color, and number recognition in a monthly theme format. Some of the projects will be taken home to share with the family and others will be ones that you can ask about. The monthly activity schedule is posted in the monthly
newsletter. The goal of preschool is to have fun and provide a little extra learning stimulation for the older children. It will not be a rigorous academic program as young children still learn best from participating in and observing the environment around them.
In your parent packet you will find a copy of the Creative Curriculum Learning Objectives. This list for
each age group is what we will be looking at when we do assessments for each child. We will be having
“conferences” to go over these assessments. Each month we will be looking at the list of objectives and will be observing them through the month along with themes for the children to enjoy.
dancing, dramatic play/pretend, puzzles, and educational TV/videos are just some of the activities we will be doing. We use Creative Curriculum to teach the children in our care.
This curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development,
- Social-Emotional:
- 1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
- 2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
- 3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
- Physical:
- 4. Demonstrates traveling skills
- 5. Demonstrates balancing skills
- 6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
- 7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and
- Language:
- 8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
- 9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
- 10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
- Cognitive:
- 11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
- 12. Remembers and connects experiences
- 13. Uses classification skills
- 14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
- Literacy:
- 15. Demonstrate phonological awareness
- 16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- 17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
- 18. Comprehends and responds to books and other books
- 19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
- Mathematics:
- 20. Uses number concepts and operations
- 21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
- 22. Compares and measures
- 23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
- Science and Technology:
- 24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
- 25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
- 26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
- 27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
- 28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
- Social Studies:
- 29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
- 30. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
- 31. Explores change related to familiar people or places
- 32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
- The Arts:
- 33. Explores the visual arts
- 34. Explores musical concepts and expression
- 35. Explores dance and movement concepts
- 36. Explores drama through actions and language
- English Language Acquisition:
- 37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
- 38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English
Some of the activities include arts & crafts, music, math, science, stories, games, as well as letter, shape, color, and number recognition in a monthly theme format. Some of the projects will be taken home to share with the family and others will be ones that you can ask about. The monthly activity schedule is posted in the monthly
newsletter. The goal of preschool is to have fun and provide a little extra learning stimulation for the older children. It will not be a rigorous academic program as young children still learn best from participating in and observing the environment around them.
In your parent packet you will find a copy of the Creative Curriculum Learning Objectives. This list for
each age group is what we will be looking at when we do assessments for each child. We will be having
“conferences” to go over these assessments. Each month we will be looking at the list of objectives and will be observing them through the month along with themes for the children to enjoy.