The Creative Curriculum

 

The Creative Curriculum®

We have chosen the Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers based on its developmentally appropriate approach to learning.

The philosophy behind the Creative Curriculum is that young children learn best by doing. Learning is not just repeating what someone else says; it requires active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn first hand about the world we live in.

In their early years, children explore the world around them by using all their senses (touching, tasting, listening, smelling, and looking). In using real materials such as blocks and trying out their ideas, children learn about sizes, shapes, colors as well as notice relationships between things. This curriculum allows teachers to teach math, science and prepare the children for reading as they go from infant through preschool.

The Goals using The Creative Curriculum®
The most important goal of our early childhood curriculum is to help children become enthusiastic learners. This means encouraging children to be active and creative explorers who are not afraid to try out their ideas and to think their own thoughts. Our goal is to help children become independent, self-confident, inquisitive learners.

We are teaching them how to learn, not just in preschool, but also all through their lives. We are allowing them to learn at their own pace and in the ways that are best for them. We are giving them good habits and attitudes, particularly a positive sense of themselves, which will make a difference throughout their lives. .

Our curriculum identifies goals in all areas of development;
• Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make friends, and feel    

   they are a part of the group
• Emotional: To help children experience pride and self-confidence, develops independence and self-control,

   and has a positive attitude toward life
• Cognitive: To help children become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and

   experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems,
   ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.
• Physical: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their

   bodies can do.

The activities we plan for children, the way we organize the environment, select toys and materials, plan the daily schedule, and talk with children, are all designed to accomplish the goals of our curriculum and give your child a successful start in school.