Classroom
This classroom offers a range of experiences for exploration, education, and skill development, across eight classroom areas:
Preschool Learning
Bright Futures Start Here
In this homelike classroom, children are encouraged to explore their curiosity, through immersive preschool learning experiences, as they begin to develop important school readiness skills.
Our Preschool classroom offers children a focus on:
- Fostering independence
- Cooperation & communication skills
- Hands-on learning
- Literacy and number concepts
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Art Center
Children explore different art techniques, color concepts, and cooperation, while developing creativity, problem-solving, and self-expression.
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Block Center
Different shapes and objects introduce learning concepts such as counting, sorting, and patterning, as children develop hand-eye coordination.
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Dramatic Play Center
Make-believe plays enable children to express emotions, make sense of real life, and develop their early writing and reading skills.
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Math Center
Learning to sort, compare, count, and recognize numbers are opportunities children explore in this center.
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Music & Movement Center
Move, dance, sing! This center helps children develop physical coordination, cooperation, and communication, while also having fun.
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Science Center
Learning about plants, animals, weather, and the seasons allows children to observe and question, as they explore early science concepts.
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Reading Center
Print awareness, story comprehension, and listening skills are all explored in this center, as children develop early literacy skills.
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Writing Center
Through rhymes and sounds, letter recognition and formation, this center helps children to develop their communication and early writing skills.
Curriculum & Developmental Scales
In our Empowered Child™ curriculum, inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach, secure relationships with responsive, respectful adults provide the basis for all learning, enabling children to develop trust, competence, and independence. Our digital lesson planning tool enables teachers to use assessment and observation to generate customized curriculum, meeting the needs of each child, across 10 significant developmental scales:
- Approaches to Learning
- Creative Arts
- Language
- Literacy
- Logic & Reasoning
- Early Math
- Nature & Science
- Social Studies
- Physical Development/Health
- Social-Emotional Development
Approaches to Learning
The ability to plan, set goals, interact with others and with the environment.
Creative Arts
The ability to express ideas and feelings with music, movement, visual arts, and drama.
Language
The ability to use conversation skills and vocabulary to communicate effectively; to use expressive and receptive vocabulary.
Literacy
The ability to have phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, plus reading and writing skills.
Logic & Reasoning
The ability to solve problems, sequence, and use symbolic and critical-thinking skills.
Early Math
The ability to understand numbers, patterns, sorting, and ordering, as well as using numbers to add, subtract, measure, and graph.
Sample Activity: Build Like Me
Milestone: Comprehending spatial concepts.
Desired Outcome: Child understands object position concepts (e.g., under, top, bottom, inside, behind).
- The children sit at a table with a collection of Lego bricks. The teacher gives an instruction such as, “Everyone find one blue block. Now put a red block under the blue block.”
- The teacher invites a child to give an instruction: “What color block should we pick now?” This continues until all the children have small structures.
- The teacher and children count how many blocks are in each structure. The teacher helps the children write down the number and encourages them to draw a picture of the structures. (Each child is supported at their level, with the teacher sounding out words and letters as needed.)
- Throughout the activity, the teacher works on oral language skills by helping the children explore position words through their instructions (such as behind, on top of, between, under, etc.).
Nature & Science
The ability to understand the natural and physical world, as well as to observe, describe, predict, and gather data.
Social Studies
The ability to understand themselves, their families, communities, and the world around them.
Physical Development/Health
The ability to develop fine and gross motor skills and to understand health and nutrition concepts.
Social-Emotional Development
The ability to show self-awareness, as well as respect and empathy for others.
Expert Corner: Stable Routines For Well-Adjusted Children
Everyone needs routines and consistency—especially children. Create stability in their life, and yours, by helping them to know what to expect every day. The result is a healthy, happy child.
Expert Corner: Stable Routines For Well-Adjusted Children
Everyone needs routines and consistency—especially children. Create stability in their life, and yours, by helping them to know what to expect every day. The result is a healthy, happy child.
Knowing what to expect helps children feel certain that their needs will be met—not just today, but every day...
Dr. Susan Canizares