Curriculum
The Creative Curriculum (by Teaching Strategies) is designed to foster social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development and to enhance learning in literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts and technology. Within these areas of development, the curriculum includes 38 learning objectives that meet the state early learning standards. As a part of this curriculum, the children conduct project-based investigations, called “studies,” that focus on meaningful science and social studies topics and provide children with an opportunity to apply skills in literacy, math, the arts, and technology.
Baby Doll Circle time (by Becky Bailey)
Baby Doll Circle Time is an approach that helps strengthen children’s attachment, attunement, and social play. It encourages self-regulation and fosters meaningful relationships. It involves adults modeling effective regulation strategies, engaging children in activities that require self-monitoring, and teaching children the language to understand their emotions.
Heggerty Phonemic Awareness
The Heggerty Curriculum aligns with many objectives in the Creative Curriculum as well as the New York State Early Learning Standards. This curriculum provides intentional, explicit phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. These practices help the children become competent, confident, emerging readers and give them the foundation to successfully transition into the reading instruction they will receive in kindergarten.
The Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum provides exposure to and practice with letter names and sound recognition, language awareness and eight phonemic awareness skills including:
- Rhyme
- Onset Fluency
- Phonemic Isolation
- Blend words
- Segment Words
- Add words, syllables & initial phonemes
- Delete words, syllables & initial phoneme
- Substitute initial phonemes
Young Children and Worship (by Sonja M. Stewart and Jerome W. Berryman) is designed for children ages 3-8 years old. The preschool and pre-K classrooms participate in Children and Worship once every other week for a thirty-minute period. This learning period includes the reading of a child friendly, Montessori style Bible story followed by “wondering questions” and a supporting activity.
As always, we encourage and invite you to take part in your child’s education by offering learning opportunities at home such as our “At Home Extension Activity” suggestions which are provided by your child’s teacher when relevant.