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Our Guidelines for children and teens programs

Our Main Theme Throughout the Programs

“What a Wonderful World This Is!” is the main theme of our programs which are designed to explore
with children, families, educators and caregivers aspects of life's diversity, the beauty of nature
and the complexity of the global community though the use of multimedia art. All our programs are named after nature & life themes.

Our programs are designed to be enjoyable, playful and memorable for everyone!

Our Philosophy Behind Our Theme

1. To teach and explore with children the wonderful world in which they live, developing their awareness and sensitivity to the world around them.

2. To offer a safe place to allow children, parents and educators to explore possibilities and ways to live creatively.

3. To empower people to pursue personal goals while respecting the environment they live in.

Our Method

We will be using a method that addresses both the right and left hemispheres of the brain, working with both the rational and
emotional needs of participants.
To ensure comprehensive and enriching programs, we incorporate all aspects of language, science & math, movement, music, art and drama.

Through Language and Art programs we work with a variety of shapes, colors, textures, vocabulary, and fine motor skills.

Through Science programs we learn about nature, environmental issues, and our relationship to the Earth.

Through Movement and Music programs, we explore space, learn limits, comprehension patterns, gross motor skills and rhythms.

Through Dramatization programs, we learn about others, try out different roles, expand our vocabulary and develop our imagination.

Leadership/ Holistic Curriculum

Curriculum Content Area for Cognitive Development:

Creative Expression and Appreciation of the Arts,

Literacy, Mathematics, Science & Social Studies.

1. The curriculum is implemented in a manner that responds to family home values, beliefs, experiences and language.

2. The curriculum helps develop a daily schedule that is predictable yet flexible and responsive to the children’s individual needs.

3. The schedule allows time and support for transitions between activities.

• Includes indoor and outdoor experiences.
• Is responsive to a child’s need to rest or be active.
Materials and equipment used to implement the curriculum reflect the lives of the children and families as well as the diversity found in society, including gender, age, language, and abilities.

Materials and equipment take into account the children’s safety while being appropriately challenging.

The curriculum content:

• Encourages exploration, experimentation and discovery.
• Promotes action and interaction.

• Is organized to support independent use.
• The content is rotated to accommodate new interests and skill levels.

• Is rich in variety.
• Accommodates children’s special needs.

Materials and equipment used to implement the curriculum for infants and toddlers/twos encourage:

• Exploration, experimentation and discovery.

• Development of sensory and motor skills.
• The practice of developing physical skills through self-initiated movement.

Areas of Development: Social-Emotional Development

Helping Children Make Friends

1.    Children interact with teaching staff that are attentive and responsive to them.
This:
•        facilitates their social competence.
•        facilitates their ability to learn through interacting with others.

2. Children are presented with many opportunities to recognize and name their own and others’ feelings.

3. Children are presented with many opportunities to learn the skills required to regulate their emotions and behavior while focusing their attention.

4. Children are presented with many opportunities to develop a sense of competence and positive attitudes toward learning, such as persistence, engagement, curiosity and mastery.

Areas of Development: Physical Development

1. Children are provided with an environment that allows them to move freely and achieve mastery of their bodies through self-initiated movement.

2. They have multiple opportunities to practice emerging skills in coordination, movement and balance, as well as perceptual-motor integration.

3. They have multiple opportunities to develop fine-motor skills by acting on their environments using their hands and fingers in a variety of age-appropriate ways.

Areas of Development: Language Development

1. Children are provided with opportunities for language acquisition that align with the program philosophy, while accounting for:
•    Family perspectives.
•    Community perspectives.

2. Children are provided with opportunities to experience oral and written communication in a language their family uses and/or understands.

3. Children are presented with many opportunities to develop competence in verbal and nonverbal communication by responding to open-ended questions, and therefore learn to

•    Communicate needs, thoughts and experiences and describe things and events.

4. Children are presented with many opportunities to develop vocabulary through conversations, experiences, field trips and books.

1. Children are provided with opportunities to experience songs, rhymes, games and books through individualized play that includes simple rhymes, songs, and interactive games.

• There are daily opportunities for each child to explore various types of books including picture books, wordless books and stories written in rhyme.
• Children have access to sturdy books they can touch and manipulate freely.

Curriculum Content Area for Cognitive Development: Early Mathematics
1. Children are provided with varied opportunities and materials to use language, gestures and materials to convey mathematical concepts such as more and less and big and small.
They can:

•    See and touch different shapes, sizes, colors, and patterns.
•    Build number awareness, using objects in the environment.
•    Read and create books that include counting and shapes.

Curriculum Content Area for Cognitive Development: Science

1. Children are provided with varied opportunities and materials to use their senses in order to learn about objects in the environment.

• Discover that they can make things happen and solve simple problems.

Curriculum Content Area for Cognitive Development: Creative Expression and Appreciation for the Arts

1. Children are provided with varied opportunities to gain an appreciation of art, music, drama and dance in ways that reflect cultural diversity.
2. Infants and toddlers/twos are provided with varied opportunities to explore and manipulate age-appropriate art materials.
3. Infants and toddlers/twos have varied opportunities to express themselves creatively by freely moving to music and engaging in pretend or imaginative play.

Curriculum Content Area for Cognitive Development: Social Studies / Multiculturalism

Children are provided with varied learning opportunities that foster positive identity and an emerging sense of self and others.

Teaching

Teachers and educators can learn the following skills:

Designing Enriched Learning Environments
Creating Caring Communities for Learning
Supervising Children
Using Time, Grouping, and Routines to Achieve Learning Goals

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