Creative Learning

The most important goals of our present preschool curriculum are for the children to become confident, enthusiastic learners and to get along well with others.

The four objectives for development that address the above goals are as follows
Social/ emotional: to help children develop independence, self-confidence, and self-control. To follow rules and routines, to make friends, and to learn what it means to be a part of a group.

Physical: to increase children’s large muscle skills by doing tasks, such as balancing, running, jumping, throwing, and catching. Also to use the small muscles in their hands to do tasks such as buttoning, stringing beads, cutting, drawing, and writing.

Cognitive: to acquire thinking skills, such as the ability to solve problems, to ask questions, and to think logically. Also to sort, classify, compare, count, and make patterns, and to use materials and their imaginations to show what they have learned.

Language: to use words to communicate with others, listen to and participate in conversations with others, understand the purpose of print, recognize letters and words, and begin to write for a purpose. In addition to all of the opportunities that occur in each classroom, the preschool emergent literacy program provides additional opportunities for exposure to all the facets of all of the objectives.

Every child is a unique individual with different learning styles- visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic or a combination of several. Through the activities that are planned in each classroom, the materials chosen, the daily schedules, and the communications among children and adults, we seek to accomplish the goals and objectives to have very successful students, each in his/her own way.

We have used a lot of ideas from Creative Curriculum and Learning with the Letter People in order to make design our curriculum. The staff also incorporates many creative ideas which they have or are learning through training during the year to make both curriculum’s even better for the children.