Curriculum

We are fortunate to live in a time when so much information about early childhood, child development and individual learning styles is available.  

Learning to read is critical for success. It is never too soon to being reinforcing pre-reading skills. When a child enters our program, we begin a systematic program that enthusiastically incorporates talking, singing, reading, signing and playing into the day. This approach emphasizes specific sounds, words, symbols, phrases, and sentences. Each of these aspects is a piece to the phonemic awareness “puzzle,” which builds the foundation for reading.

Children also learn phonological awareness through their own verbal and non-verbal language, including spoken, written, and gestured communication. Soon they can begin to use more formal language to express themselves and to learn about the world they live in. Early on our children are regularly encouraged to “use [their] words.” A child’s first attempts at language usually include words that label, classify, identify and position. Our staff reinforces these emergent efforts and the messages delivered. The ability to read does not “just happen…” It requires rich multi-modality experiences at a young age.

We have assembled a wonderfully talented faculty to implement our superior curriculums, which include the High Reach, DLM Early Childhood Express from the McGraw-Hill Group and ELLM curriculums. These classroom curriculums are designed to meet each child at a level consistent with the individual student’s developmental level. Challenging, hands-on strategies combine with educational discovery centers to provide a well-rounded, multi-modal approach to learning.

The intention of the curriculum is to prepare “the total child” for the next levels of learning within a positive and nurturing educational environment.

DLM Early Childhood Express (www.wrightgroup.com)

This curriculum has been designed by McGraw-Hill Companies to prepare young children for future academic success, nurturing each child by offering carefully selected and sequenced developmental and age-appropriate learning experiences. This comprehensive program includes literature, manipulatives, and instructional materials that have been created to keep children engaged and excited about learning.

High Reach (www.highreach.com)

A McGraw-Hill curriculum for our infants, toddlers and two year olds, is an interactive, developmentally-appropriate curriculum designed to stimulate and develop vocabulary, language concepts, skills, and overall cognitive growth at the age-appropriate level.

The Early Literacy and Learning Model is a research-based, comprehensive curriculum for 3, 4 and 5 year-old preschool children that has been proven to be effective improving children’s early reading achievements.  This literacy-focused curriculum builds children’s cognitive development through literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts motor experiences and physical health.