Creative Curriculum: This is our base curriculum. Creative Curriculum includes developmentally appropriate goals and objectives for children within four main categories of interest: social/emotional, physical, cognitive and language. Teachers use Creative Curriculum as their guide to set-up their classrooms, observe children and ensure they are teaching to the whole child.Â
Second Step: This is our social-emotional curriculum. Second Step is research-based, teacher-informed, and classroom-tested to promote the social-emotional development, safety, and well-being of young children. When children enter kindergarten with self-regulation and well-rounded social-emotional skills, they are set-up for success.
Foundations: This is our language arts curriculum. Foundations assists children with phonemic awareness, phonics and letter formation.
Wildcat Discovery Park offers children a nature-based outdoor playground experience. An early childhood edible garden, a fort building area, a unique sand box created out of logs, and traditional play equipment are available.
Class activities promote the following age-appropriate skills:
Social/Emotional Skills
- interacting with peers and adults
- learning class rules and routines
- developing self-regulation
- learning about emotions
- problem solving
- friendship skills
Self-Help Skills
- performing tasks independently
- following health and safety rules
Physical Skills
- eye-hand coordination
- cutting and drawing
- coordinating body movements
- outdoor and indoor play
Science
- STEM activities
- building curiosity in our natural world
Math Skills
- colors
- numbers, counting
- shapes, sizes, sequencing
- name recognition
- patterns and sorting
Literacy Skills
- vocabulary
- comprehension
- letter recognition
- concepts of print
- phonemic awareness