Our Program
Childcare & Early LearningOur objectives for development and learning span from 2 months through PreK. They enable teachers to see children’s development and learning along a progression across the whole of the early childhood years.
Wanderers
2-12 months
1:4 ratio with
7 students max with two teachers
Roamers
12-29 months
1:7 ratio with
14 students max with two teachers
Travelers
24-36 months
1:7 ratio with
14 students max with two teachers
Explorers
30-52 months
1:7 ratio with
14 students max with two teachers
Investigators
48-72 months
1:10 ratio with
20 students max with two teachers
Our approach
We provide a rich learning environment with curricula that are developmentally appropriate to the specific ages in each classroom.
We have a flexible day routine that allows children to advance at their own pace. We strongly believe that learning happens through play.
The Creative Curriculum®
The Creative Curriculum® this on-going, play-based, developmentally appropriate curriculum, embeds an authentic systematic approach to learning in Early Childhood Education. With the focus of assessments, observations, and utilizing our natural resources, this curriculum enforces our beliefs to create meaningful experiences in the classroom.
The 38 Objectives
The objectives cover 10 areas of development and learning, including broad developmental areas, content areas, and English language acquisition. Many objectives also include dimensions that guide teachers’ thinking about various aspects of that objective and help clarify what it addresses.
Social-Emocional
1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Physical
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balance skills
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
Language
8. Listen to and understands increasingly complex language
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
Cognitive
11. Demonstrates Positive approaches to learning
12. Remembers and connects experiences
13. Uses classification skills
14. Use symbols and images to represent something not present
Literacy
15. Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonic skills and word recognition
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabets
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
18. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
19. Demonstrates writing skills
Mathematics
20. Uses number concepts and operations
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
22. Compare and measures
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
Science and Technology
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
28. Use tools and other technology to perform tasks
Social Studies
29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
30. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
31. Explores change related to familiar people or places
32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
The Arts
33. Explores the visual arts
34. Explores music concepts and expression
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
36. Explores drama through actions and language
English Language Acquisition
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English
LAYING THE TRACKS FOR YOUR CHILD'S FUTURE!
Little STEAMers Academy
