What to Expect from Our Curriculum
What Is Creative Curriculum?
The creative curriculum approach is when creative teaching methods and strategies are used to teach a concept or a subject. The goal of learning is not to only pass a test but to ensure that concepts are understood beyond the test. Using effective tools, such as creative curriculum strategies, cements lesson concepts in a manner where learning lasts forever.
Creative curriculum is based on the fact that learning should be made relevant to students’ everyday lives. Subjects are never isolated in watertight compartments, but rather interconnected and interdependent. Hence, in real life when a child sees the rain, the concepts taught through various subjects are practiced, learned, and reinforced.
Differentiate Learning for Every Child
Individualize instruction by understanding how children’s abilities progress and supporting them with unique color-coded progressions that show the typical development of skills from birth through third grade. Effectively scaffold learning experiences to respond to each child’s current strengths and needs, including those with disabilities, with embedded guidance and strategies located on curricular resources.
Inspire Children With Project-Based, Investigative Learning
Build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations. Promote discovery and inquiry with opportunities for children to think critically and develop process skills with rich, hands-on investigations of relevant and interesting topics in the classroom. Reinforce learning with family-friendly activities designed for home.
More Quality Time With Every Child
Streamline planning, teaching, and family engagement anywhere, anytime, with 24/7 access to the curriculum; family-friendly curated, multimedia playlists tied directly to classroom instruction; a Digital Children’s Library; and two-way communications with families to reinforce learning at home and facilitate a close home-school connection.
Nurture Mathematics Skill Development
Throughout the day, include meaningful discussions and applications to develop the essential mathematical process skills of problem-solving, reasoning, communicating, making connections, and representing. Just like these skills are used by children in their daily lives, we integrate mathematics skill each day in our pre-k curriculum.
Promote Language and Literacy Skills
Each day, utilize daily resources focused on language and literacy skill development, and read aloud using our children’s book collection and Digital Children’s Library from a wide range of genres that explore life in other cultures, celebrate diversity, spark curiosity, and inspire children’s imaginations.
Build the Social–Emotional Foundation Children Need
Promote social–emotional development with support from a new foundation volume focused on social–emotional, physical, and cognitive development; Teaching Guides with a special social-emotional, including The First Six Weeks: Building Your Preschool Classroom Community; Daily Resources designed to build social-emotional skills; and embedded coaching and support for social-emotional development.
Tiny Seeds Yearly Curriculum
Younger Preschoolers (2 ½ – 3 ½ Year Olds)
- What do we need to know about school?
- What do we do when we are scared?
- What are school rules?
- How do we make friends?
- Colors, Names, Five Senses (See and Hear)
- Grandparents Day, Rosh Hashanah
- What are characteristics of trees in our community?
- Who lives in trees?
- What foods grow on trees?
- Who takes care of trees?
- How do trees change?
- What can we do with parts of trees?
- Friends, Five Senses (Feel, Taste, and Smell)
- Grandparents Day, Rosh Hashanah, Diwali
- What do we know about buildings?
- Building in our community.
- Who builds buildings?
- What tools are used?
- What are buildings made of?
- What makes buildings strong?
- Shapes, Letter B, C, D, Ramps
- Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving
- What do we know about clothes?
- What are clothes made of?
- What are the features of clothes?
- Sorting by shapes and sizes, Letters: F, G, Water
- Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice
- How do we take care of our clothes?
- How is cloth made?
- What special clothes do people wear?
- Sorting by attributes, Letters: H, J, K, L, Weather (Fall, Winter)
- New Year’s, Martin Luther King, Lunar New Year
- What do we know about boxes?
- What can we do with boxes?
- What are the characteristics of boxes?
- Which jobs involve boxes?
- How are boxes made?
- Letters: M, N, P, Q – Measuring, Weather (Spring, Summer)
- Black History Month, Dental Health Month, Valentine’s Day, 100th Day of School
- What do we know about roads?
- What are some characteristics of roads?
- How do roads help people in their everyday lives?
- How are roads made?
- Who makes them?
- Letters: R, S, T, V – Patterns, Music Discovery
- Read Across America, Hina Matsuri, Ramadan, St. Patrick’s
- What do we know about reduce, reuse, recycle?
- What do people throw away?
- Where does the trash go?
- What do workers do there?
- How does trash and garbage affect our community?
- Letters: W, X, Z – Numbers 1–3, Sink or Float
- Autism Awareness, Earth Day, Easter
- What do we know about pets?
- What kinds of animals are pets?
- Where do pets live?
- What do pets eat?
- Letters: A, E, I – Numbers 4–6, Living vs Non-Living
- Mother’s Day, Cinco De Mayo, Teacher Appreciation Week, Memorial Day
- What do we know about insects?
- What are the characteristics of insects?
- Where and how do insects live?
- What insects are in our community?
- Letters: O, U, Numbers 7–10, Animal Characteristics
- Father’s Day, Summer
- Who works with insects?
- How do insects help the earth?
- Letter and Number Review, Animal Habitats
- Fourth of July, End of Year
