Programs
INFANT & TODDLER PROGRAM
Our primary resources are:
- Active Learning Series
- The Creative Curriculum
- Infant-Toddler Planning Guide
Every baby is unique. The most appropriate care occurs in an environment that feels like home where children are free to explore and teachers encourage their emerging interests. Using the five senses is the most natural way for babies to learn.
Our toddler program provides choices while supporting curiosity.
- Planned Experiences: activities to support learning through exploration
- Sensory: messy area that includes art activities
- Dramatic Play: home living area
- Language: cozy “get away” place to relax with a book
- Small Muscle: discovery area with manipulatives to dump and fill
We begin sign language with our babies and toddlers to give them a way to express their wants and needs before they are able to speak. Having an alternative way to communicate before speech develops gives us a way to know what our children are thinking.
PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
Our primary resources are:
- All About Preschoolers, An Environment-Based Curriculum
- The Creative Curriculum
- Creative Resources For The Early Childhood Classroom
Each month, we choose a topic and plan activities around our theme. Planned activities nurture the children’s curiosity and help them develop as confident learners. Our children use “hands-on” activities to discover and understand our world. We promote learning in literacy, mathematics, science and social studies following the Early Learning Standards for North Carolina Preschoolers (www.osr.nc.gov).
- Book of the Month
- Charting new vocabulary
- Exploring animals, plants, and providing collections for sorting and classifying
- Inviting children to dictate stories
- Making sound-to-letter matches using letter name knowledge
- Journal writing
- Including sensory materials such as paint, playdough, and clay
- Creating and reading simple graphs
- Displaying props to reflect different themes, jobs, and cultures
- Learning names of numbers, counting, ordinal numbers, sequencing, and one-to-one correspondence
- Exposing children to the scientific method of inquiry; observing, questioning, predicting, experimenting, and representing results
- Providing experiences for children to use a variety of technologies
