Early Childhood Curriculum at Creative Kids
“Learn Every Day, the Preschool Curriculum” is a comprehensive early education curriculum based on current research and written by national experts. The activities incorporate literacy, math, science, social studies, and the creative arts in ways that will enable your student to Learn Every Day!
This innovative curriculum uses a multi-sensory, strengths-based approach to our early childhood education program. It was designed to respect individual differences, honor every child’s culture, and recognize that family members are equal partners in a child’s education. It is the goal that all children will experience joy and delight as they grow and develop in our nurturing environment.
Weekly themes are used to introduce information and learning takes place as children explore and manipulate real objects and events. Through a variety of learning centers, children experience and explore many subjects and concepts, such as:
Taking Initiative
- Making choices and plans
- Solving problems with materials
- Initiating play
- Taking care of personal needs
Social Relations
- Relating to adults and other children
- Resolving interpersonal conflict
- Understanding and expressing feelings
- Participating in group routine
Art/Creative Representation
- Expressing personal feelings
- Developing an eye for details
- Refining hand-eye coordination and small motor skills
- Enhancing imagination and creativity
Music and Movement
- Singing and moving to music
- Exploring and identifying sounds
- Developing rhythm and beat patterns (to become a better reader)
- Working on fine motor skills and balance
Language and Literacy
- Listening and understanding speech
- Using vocabulary and complex patterns of speech
- Using letter names and sounds
- Reading and writing skills
Mathematics
- Sorting objects and identifying patterns
- Counting and comparing
- Trying different strategies to solve problems
- Graphing items (by color, size, etc.)
Science
- Understanding the world around us
- Enhancing curiosity and cognitive development
- Making new discoveries
- Expanding observation, classifying, and predicting skills
Dramatic Play
- Being creative and imaginative
- Understanding conflict resolution and problem-solving
- Developing interest and concentration
- Expanding awareness of self, in relation to others and the environment
Writing
- Building awareness of sounds in words
- Recognizing written words
- Using letter sounds and names
- Contribute to an ongoing conversation
Prepare for kindergarten with math and literacy.
In our Preschool and Pre-K programs, your child will be immersed in math and literacy through in-school and at-home activities from our Focus on Literacy! and Focus on Math! programs.
FOCUS ON LITERACY! explores five key areas to foster improved literacy and cognition:
- Vocabulary Development: Using language purposefully and precisely in thinking and communicating
- Phonological Awareness: Hearing and manipulating individual sounds (phonemes) and groups of sounds (rhymes and syllables) in spoken language
- Phonemic Awareness: Hearing, identifying, and manipulating single sounds in spoken words to recognize similarities and differences and how sounds relate to each other
- Print Awareness: Understanding the meaning of written language
- Alphabet Knowledge: Recognizing that letters are their own unique symbols and each has its own name, sound, shape, and order within the alphabet
FOCUS ON MATH! is designed to improve mathematical skills and abilities in five areas:
- Problem-Solving: Developing strategies to multiple approaches to solving problems
- Math Language: Seeing and using math as a language that describes quantities and amounts
- Number Sense Awareness: Developing an intuitive understanding of numbers and how actions (like addition and subtraction) affect numbers
- Visual Awareness: The ability to visualize numbers and quantities
- Number Knowledge: Understanding the role of numbers in our lives and learning the concepts of counting, quantity, and numerals
