Early Childhood Center/Holy Angels
Curriculum
The Pre-School Curriculum
At the pre-school level Early Childhood Center Creative Curriculum is a balance of play and academics. Our daily curriculum is planned to include a variety of activities that develop basic cognitive skills as well as gross and fine motor skills. The curriculum emphasizes school readiness skills with small group work centers formed around content areas such as reading, math, handwriting, science, and social skills. Weekly themes connect the content areas thus integrating learning.
The Pre-School teachers integrate the following curriculums into their weekly lesson plans:
Creative Curriculum:
Based in theory and research, The Creative Curriculum provides the background, strategies, and teaching approaches in how children develop and learn, the learning environment, what children learn, the teacher’s role, and the family’s role. There is also a focus on the social and emotional skills children need to succeed in school and life and guidance on the teacher’s role in addressing content in literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts and technology. The curriculum also provides a range of instructional strategies, from child-initiated to teacher –directed learning |
Handwriting Without Tears Program:
This program has won the Distinguished Achievement Award for the best children’s curriculum as well as a Teacher’s Choice Award from Learning Magazine. Handwriting Without Tears develops coloring, drawing, counting, alphabet skills and handwriting readiness. The program uses music and multi-sensory learning materials. With this program, children meet higher standards for letter recognition, correct letter formation and directionality. |
Incredible Years Dinosaur Program:
The Dinosaur Curriculum is a comprehensive theme-base social skills and problem solving program. The purpose is to teach pre-school children positive social skills, conflict and anger management skills, emotional literacy, appropriate school behaviors and communication skills in order to promote their positive self-esteem and general social, emotional, and academic competence. |
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