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Curriculum used in my Childcare.
1. My customized program introduces letters, numbers and
words that start with the letter of the day. I use this letter
with my daily lesson to include science, math, social studies,
geography, art, music and American Sign Language.
2. Fireflies curriculum
Science and art projects are used to
enhance my customized program.
3. American Sign Language “Sign to Me” (ASL) using 165 words, phrases
and songs to create a bridge for communicating to non speaking
infant and toddler, offering Preschoolers an opportunity to excel
using ASL as a second language
4. Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones
(HALO)- is similar to the DARE
program you find in the Middle schools, but built for 2-5 year olds
using songs, art, craft, dance and stories. HALO is a
substance abuse prevention program designed to provide information
and facilitate skill building for preschool children. It is a
series of developmentally appropriate lessons emphasizing the
importance of growing in healthy ways.
Each lesson begins with a reminder of what HALO means:
Healthy-
growing bigger and stronger and better able to think. This
program tells children some things we put into our bodies help us to
grow in healthy ways and other things will harm our bodies making us
weak and unable to play, think or feel.
Alternatives-
Choices. This program informs children people have some control over
their level of health. It encourages children to make healthy
choices.
Little Ones –
Children. This program tells children they are special, and
each one is unique and precious. It also tells children the
adults in their family and community cares about what happens to
them.
My program goals are to offer a loving, professional,
high quality, educationally stimulating, fun, home like, preschool
environment with print rich surroundings to achieve a high learning
opportunity for each child. I celebrate in my heart as I see
children in my care enjoy learning.
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When planning my weekly curriculum I include ideas from each
category below:
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Autonomy and Social Skills help children
develop a greater understanding of themselves and their
roles in their family and at daycare. They learn to
recognize their names and learn body parts, such as
(head, arm, hand, leg etc). We learn what our bodies
can do, we learn to recognize and label facial
expressions and feelings, such as sad, and happy. We
recognize our senses. We work on making friends, taking
turns, helping, and developing abilities to work
cooperatively with others and following rules. |
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Experimenting and predicting with cooking and science
projects. We learn about the physical world, such as
where water comes from. |
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Effective and enjoyable skill building
with math lessons, such as sorting, classifying,
counting, adding, and subtracting objects such as fruit
snack. |
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Exploring and expanding our knowledge
with Social Studies and Geography.
Social studies are the study of
people--how people live, work, get along with others and
solve problems. The people preschoolers know best are
themselves, their families, and the people in their
communities.
Young children begin to learn social
studies by forming relationships, learning to
communicate, and exploring the world around them. As
they do these things, they are forming understandings
that relate to geography, civics, economics, and
history. Children gain a deeper understanding of new
concepts through involvement in socio-dramatic
play-acting in our
dramatic area. They learn best when experiences
are meaningful and relevant to their own lives.
We
study different cultures of children in our care. I feel
this helps to develop a sense of understanding each
other better. Geographical thinking begins with
understanding space, and becoming aware of
characteristics of places where you live. In our
preschool, children study physical characteristics of
their world--the sandbox area, slides, play house, and
the grassy area by the tree--and talk about how to
navigate to it. They can talk about mapping by
discussing directions--how to get to the bathroom,
playground, and front door. They can recreate their
neighborhood in the block area and draw or paint maps of
places they visit.
My goal is for children to begin to
understand that maps represent actual places. I’m proud
to say the three and four year olds have gained such
interest and knowledge on maps they can recall 14 states
as well as give small tidbits of information about each
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Language and
early literacy techniques starting with
strengthening fine motor skills with manipulatives, such
as play-dough, picking up objects with tongs, using a
dropper to drip paint onto paper, coloring, etc. Then
progressing to creating our own books and reading them
to each other. I included writing tools and non-fiction
and resource books to the science and kitchen center for
gathering information on the subject. We write in our
Journals every day. Even the babies are excited color,
stick stickers, and use ink stampers in their Journal.
I feel this is teaching them to Love writing, drawing,
and expressing themselves on paper.
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Art
to include knowledge of colors, shapes
and encourage experimenting, drawing, cutting, artistic
expression, handwriting, and creativity.
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Making our own music with different
instruments; listening and dancing to music to enhance
gross motor skills, using our body
expressively, quickly or slowly, fast or slow, starting
and stopping at an audible sound.
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American Sign Language is used in my
program. We use 165 words, Phrases and Songs. |
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Taking time daily to engage
in conversations with each child as they play, work on
their lessons, read a book, or as they reflect on
something from another day or at home time. I try to
expand their thinking through conversation and
open-ended questions. |
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Preschool
Program