A Preschool Curriculum That Sparks Joy and Growth
At our preschool, learning feels like play—and that’s exactly the point! Our curriculum is thoughtfully designed to combine hands-on activities with playful exploration, creating a joyful and engaging environment where young children love to learn.
Each day is filled with meaningful, theme-based experiences that nurture curiosity, creativity, and confidence and support for your child’s growth in all the important areas:
- Social: Collaborate, share, take turns.
- Emotional: Recognize, express, and manage emotions while understanding the feelings of others.
- Cognitive: Solve problems, make connections, and develop decision-making skills.
- Language: Strengthen comprehension, expand vocabulary, and refine communication and conversational skills.
- Literacy: Develop phonological awareness, build vocabulary, recognize letters and words, and explore emergent writing.
- Mathematics: Understand number concepts, identify shapes, explore measurement, recognize patterns, and classify objects.
- Physical Development: Enhance fine and gross motor coordination, strength, and overall physical confidence.
- The Arts: Express creativity through music, dance, movement, visual arts, and drama.
- Science: Foster curiosity through inquiry, prediction-making, and exploration of living things, materials, and the natural world.
- Social Studies: Develop a sense of self, learn how people live, and explore geography.
Here is an example of how we introduce the Farm theme through play and activities that spark curiosity and connect children to real-life farm experiences as follows:
- Story or Song: Read books like "Big Red Barn" or sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" to introduce animals and sounds.
- Visuals or Videos: Show pictures or videos of farm life to help children learn about animals and crops.
- Farm-Related Items: Use toy farm animals, hay, and pretend tools to explore the farm environment.
- Sensory Experience: Set up a table with dried corn, straw, or soil for children to touch and explore.
- Interactive Play: Create a pretend play area with farm toys for role-playing as farmers or animals.
- Art and Crafts: Have children create farm animals or scenes with craft supplies.
- Discussions: Ask open-ended questions like “What do cows eat?” to engage their thinking.
- Math Activities:Count farm animals to practice number recognition; sort animals by size or type; measure pretend grains to introduce measurement concepts.
- Science: Discuss where farm animals live to teach about habitats.
Social Studies: Community roles- discuss the roles of farmers and other workers on the farm, helping children understand jobs in the community.
- Physical: Encourage children to move like different animals (e.g., hop like a bunny, waddle like a duck) to develop gross motor skills.
