Covenant Community Preschool

Curriculum

Covenant Community Preschool offers preschool education from Christian perspective within a safe loving, environment.

Covenant Community Preschool incorporates The Creative Curriculum philosophy of education.

The Creative Curriculum developmental approach to education emphasizes the importance play using a large variety of open-ended materials in the classroom and is recognized nationally as appropriate for children age birth through kindergarten.

CCP Curriculum Overview

Faith Development

Children are never too young to begin faith development, even though it is abstract (meaning a concept they cannot see). Kindness and sharing are abstract concepts that children can't "see and hold," but they learn by seeing others act kindly or share toys. Similarly, children can learn about faith by praying with their teachers and connecting good deeds to biblical truths.

Social- Emotional Development

Our curriculum focuses on making connections between home and school, and it includes the experience of separation from home and family. Children learn to build trusting relationships with others and how to be a part of a group. They also begin to understand how they are different from, and similar to, others.

Literacy & Language

Literacy and language development build on the social and cognitive skills of speaking and listening that young children have already acquired. Children are encouraged to express themselves, their ideas, feelings, and experiences, and engage in dialogue and discussions.

Our literacy & language development curriculum revolves around the following goals:

Communication and expression about self, others, and the physical world
Appreciation of the points of view of others
Sense of story
Phonemic awareness
Making a connection between the spoken and written word
Love of books, the language of books, and authors

Interests in symbolic representation (i.e., drawing, letters, sounds, print), use of symbols to represent experiences, ideas, and feelings

A variety of age-appropriate techniques and activities are used to accomplish these goals, including, but not limited to, recording stories children dictate, creative dramatics, making group and individual books, reading and discussing the daily charts, writing signs, and writing simple stories using invented spelling.

Mathematics

Mathematics is a core part of the curriculum. Concrete and active experiences in math provide a solid foundation from which children can build an understanding of abstract mathematical ideas. Preschoolers work with various mathematical materials, including unit blocks, pegs, pegboards, pattern blocks, unifix cubes, and dice.

Teachers plan daily activities that support children in developing important basic mathematical concepts:

One-to-one correspondence and counting
Numerical relations, ordering, and sequencing
Sorting and classifying
Geometric understandings about space, volume, and shape
Measurement of size, weight, time, and temperature
Patterns
Estimation
Pictorial representations of data

Science

The science curriculum is designed so that children can make sense of the world around them. Topics or themes are chosen by observing children; in this way, children can see the relevance of science to their own lives. As with the other curriculum domains, science is integrated into everything children do during school. Teachers encourage children to develop an attitude of respect for nature and their surrounding environment. Children record, order, categorize, generalize, discuss, and make predictions based on their natural environment and material observations.

Physical Health & Development

All children need opportunities to move and use their bodies. Young children do so constantly as they experiment with what their bodies can do and where they will fit. Just as children like to manipulate toys, they enjoy putting their bodies in, on, under, over, through, behind, and around.

Music

Children have the opportunity to explore sounds and rhythms with variety musical instruments. They sing songs from many different kinds and explore different languages, count beats and language play.

Creative Arts

Art activities are geared to individual children's needs and skills. Few restrictions are placed on the children's explorations with art materials; they are free to experiment to increase their understanding of the medium. Repeated exposure to basic materials such as paint and play-dough leads the children to the ability to use different art media and materials in a variety of ways for creative expression and representation.

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