Curriculum: Infants Toddlers Twos and Threes Pre-Kindergarten School Age 
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 The philosophy of Bright Beginnings encourages children to learn by playing. Our hands-on age-appropriate curriculum offers math, science, art, and literature activities that provide great experiences for our anxious learners as they prepare for the adventures of kindergarten. Centers of free play are offered daily and give your child the opportunity to explore a variety of different activities. Examples of centers include free art, water table, dolls, puzzles, dress-up, blocks and literature. Although these centers are offered to all of the children, Pre-K students take their exploration one or two steps further. Math - Our Math curriculum is based on Math Their Way. This program involves a hands-on interactive approach to learning math concepts such as one-to-one correspondence, matching, patterning, rote counting and sorting. We use Math Their Way by counting the days we have been in school during calendar time, graphing how many children have pets, counting and sorting our "Junk boxes" and making patterns with unifix cubes. What fun we have! Science - Our goal for science is to expose the children to the natural world around them. We take nature walks and record what we see and hear. We grow plants from seeds and watch their progress. We also experiment and hypothesize about what will happen. We provide a sampling of what the world has to offer. Art - Art time provides each child with more opportunities to express him or herself. The children experiment with paints, crayons, markers, recyclable items, clay and many other mediums to learn artistic ways to express themselves. Literature - We provide quality literature daily to our students as well as activities that take books many steps further. The students may act out a story, make up a new ending, make puppets, or find a few favorite stories they cherish. Some unique aspects to our Pre-K curriculum are journal writing, word banks and the children's favorite, Traveling Teddy. "T.T." is a little bear who spends one weekend at home with each child. The child then writes about their adventures with a little help from home. We feel these activities provide excellent introductions to letter recognition and pre-writing skills. Our students are well prepared for all of the challenges kindergarten has to offer. We continually work on listening skills, following directions, and social interactions. We practice taking turns, sharing, and being responsible for our actions and behavior. Teachers model how to problem-solve and negotiate. Most importantly, we educators support and nurture each child as an individual, unique and special. |
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