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Our preschool curriculum provides developmentally-appropriate learning opportunities to encourage your child to be confident, successful, life-long learners. The early years are critical to your child's positive growth and development and they are eager to learn new skills, experience challenging opportunities, and be encouraged for their strengths and talents.
We ensure every child is receiving the creative learning experiences they require and that they are developing physically, intellectually, and socially. Our activities, games, and curriculum are all formulated to engage and your child's natural curiosity and provide a foundation for lifelong success. Preparing your child to succeed in school and in life is the core of our child care curriculum.
Here at Miles of Smiles we follow the Experience Early Learning Curriculum. These activity kits provide activities for children with various developmental needs, experiences, and diverse cultural background. All of the activities and assessment materials are aligned with national and state standards.
We use Experience curriculum at Miles of Smiles Daycare/Preschool Center. We know that children construct their understanding of the world from their active involvement with people, materials, and ideas. Children gain knowledge and develop by exploring the world around them. Allowing them to explore, make choices, manipulate objects, transform items, and experiment is what Miles of Smiles Daycare Preschool Center curriculum is all about.
Your child will soon be enjoying early learning activities at our setting! Experience Curriculum is a professionally designed Early Learning program for young children. Lesson plans encompass all areas of a child’s development: language, cognitive, physical, and social. Children learn best through interacting with their environment, and Experience Curriculum activities are designed with that in mind. They will help us prepare your children for a bright future and have fun along the way!
Benefits for Your Child:
Build enthusiasm for life-long learning
They learn socialization and cooperation
Learning through experience
Skills such as teamwork and respect are taught
Concentration, patience
Build confidence, self-esteem, and autonomy
Exposure to diversity
Benefits for Parents/Caregivers:
Knowledge that your child is participating in a curriculum program that is aligned with the highest quality standards in Early Childhood Education.
You will be involved in your child’s learning. Newsletters, calendars, and much more to keep you informed. Children with involved parents do better in school and show stronger social skills.
Your child’s Teacher spends more of each day interacting with children, and less time prepping and planning.
Experience Curriculum is a comprehensive curriculum that is based on the latest research in the field of early childhood education. Experience Curriculum is intentionally designed to support the development of skills across eight domains including:
1. Social-emotional
2. Physical
3. Language and Literacy
4. Math and Reasoning
5. Science
6. Social Studies
7. Creative Development
8. Second Language Acquisition Activities, projects and extended learning experiences are intentionally planned to invite children to explore their own curiosities while encouraging them to naturally apply multiple skills throughout the learning experience.
With Experience Curriculum, educators frame experiences around thematic studies to help children link past and new knowledge within a playful story platform. Thematic studies reinforce real-world connections and help children learn about themselves, their families, diverse communities, natural habitats and how they fit within the big, beautiful world. The Experience Curriculum design:
• Applies the latest research and theory into practice.
• Supports the development of 35 skills.
• Shows the interrelationship between domains of learning.
• Exposes children to a diverse range of thematic, real-world studies.
• Connects skills with themes.
• Organizes, links and extends concepts through the use of theme webs.
Experience Curriculum is grounded in child development research and shaped by constructivist learning theories. Experience Curriculum offers educators practical methods for engaging children in the learning process and supports educators to observe children, document learning, identify a child’s interests and cultural background, and then adapt suggested activities and experiences to best connect with the child’s strengths, needs and interests. Theories that guide our approach to curriculum design include:
• John Dewey’s Research: Children learn best when they interact with the materials and world around them. Curriculum should offer structure while embracing the unique interests and abilities of the children.
• Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory: Various environmental systems influence the development of an individual.
• Jean Piaget’s Developmental Stage Theory: Children are active learners and the way they understand develops as they interact with the world around them.
• Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences: Intelligence is represented in various sensory modalities. Teaching content should employ the use of diverse methods, such as music, art, social, and nature based experiences, to support learning amongst children who favor different intelligences.
• Brain-based Learning Theory: The brain develops over time by making connections between past and present knowledge. The brain is a parallel processor, meaning it can perform several activities at once, like tasting and smelling. Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
• R.N. Emde and Louis Sanders on the Importance of Relationship: The child-caregiver relationship is central to development. The research highlights the role of the caregiver’s personality in child development.
• Barbara Rogoff on Culture: Child development is shaped by the culture and the community goals and expectations. Educators must seek to understand their own culture as well as the culture of each child’s family.
Learn more about the importance of early learning and the curriculum program your child will be participating at Experience Early Learning.
No Additional Cost! A great early learning program can set the stage for life-long learning. This program will be provided for your child at no additional cost. If you would like more information about Experience Early Learning, please visit their website, or visit with your child's teacher. Thank you!
