Preschool Curriculum
Curriculum and Philosophy
Our Philosophy:
Children learn best through their hands-on experiences, so our philosophy is to teach the whole child by engaging them in rich experiences and investigations to help build their confidence, promote discovery, and to create critical thinking skills. Play is an essential foundation for school learning and is an important building block before learning and can be defined as the work of young children.
Curriculum Goals:
Intentional lessons and small and large group experiences will enable us to achieve the desired goals and outcomes to help children become enthusiastic and inquisitive learners. Our assessment program is tied directly to our curriculum, allowing us to use our daily observations to link our data for instant feedback, allowing us to be even more intentional in our planning of daily lessons and activities.
Creative Curriculum and Teaching Strategies Gold (Assessment) identify developmental learning objectives most predictive of future school success and which are linked to the state early learning standards.
Social-Emotional: To achieve a sense of self and understand his/her value to God, family, and others
Help children regulate their own emotions and behaviors
Establish and sustain positive relationships
Participate cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Spiritual: To help nurture a child’s faith that God and Jesus love them and that they are special to God
Understanding that the Bible is the truth: God’s Word.
Learning that God loves them through stories, verses, prayer, and a loving Christian environment.
Physical: To help children increase their large and small motor skills and to feel confident with movement.
Demonstrate traveling and balancing skills
Demonstrate gross motor manipulative skills
Demonstrate fine motor strength and coordination
Language: To help children learn to understand and communicate through words, spoken and written to build a foundation for literacy.
Listens to, and understands increasingly complex language
Uses language to express thoughts and needs
Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
Cognitive: To help children become confident learners by trying their ideas, solving problems, asking questions, and describing their rights and feelings.
Demonstrate positive approaches to learning
Remember and connect experiences
Use classification skills
Use symbols and images to represent something not present