Curriculum

The preschool teachers deliver a rich, developmentally appropriate, language-based curriculum with multi-sensory, multi-modal approaches to teaching.  The curriculum reflects developmental sensitivity and provides support for all areas of a child’s growth:   fine and gross motor, communication, social/emotional behavior, and self-help.    

Play is the primary vehicle for a young child’s learning and is the cornerstone of the preschool program. Play enhances a child's ability to use and interpret symbols, stimulates language development, promotes the acquisition of social skills and promotes self-confidence and independence.  Play enables children to progress along a developmental continuum. In the preschool classrooms, play is child-initiated, child-directed and teacher-supported.

The preschool curriculum emphasizes learning as an interactive process. The classroom environment is carefully designed for children to learn through active exploration and interaction with adults, other children and with classroom materials.  The environment provides opportunities for children to ask questions, take risks and learn about people with various socioeconomic, racial and cultural backgrounds.  The classroom is also designed to provide multiple opportunities for children to appreciate their strengths and work on minimizing their challenges or disabilities. Exploring each of these areas results in respecting differences.  

Teacher’s observations and recordings of each child’s special interests, concerns and needs facilitate curriculum planning and assessment annually.

The classroom schedule typically includes:

• Free choice and directed free play
• Circle/Meeting Time
• Snack
• Share
• Table Activity Time
• Gross Motor/Outdoor play
• Ending Circle/Story