The Friendship Children’s Center’s curriculum encourages learning in five critical academic areas through real-life experiences and hands-on activities within theme-based lesson plans. Teaching in this manner allows our program to be as comprehensive as possible in preparing your child to be independent and ready for the junior preschool class, while also providing loads of fun and new experiences for your child.
Infant and Toddler
The infant and toddler classrooms utilize each of these five areas of learning in our lessons and activities.
1. Language Arts
(reading, word play, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, story telling, vocabulary, receptive and expressive language)
2. Music, Drama, Creative Movement, Yoga
(theatre, dance, puppet shows, singing, playing instruments, group and individual gross motor activities)
3. Fine Motor Manipulative Play
(students will rotate between activities, such as blocks or painting or wooden puzzles)
4. Art/Creativity
(open-ended projects, incorporating medium such as paper, paints, glue, clay to encourage individual creativity)
5. Math/Science
(counting, sequencing, sorting, measuring, memory games, puzzles, geometric shapes, cooking, an awareness of nature, growth, animals, plants, outer space, and other problem-solving and investigative tasks)
Preschool
The preschool classrooms utilize each of these five areas of learning in our lessons and activities.
1. Language Arts/Spanish/French
(reading, word play, rhyming, letter and sound recognition, story telling, vocabulary, receptive and expressive language)
2. Music, Drama, Creative Movement, Yoga
(theatre, dance, puppet shows, singing, playing instruments, group and individual gross motor activities)
3. Literacy/Early Reading Skills
(rotating between activities such as writing, letter and number games, story telling, journaling)
4. Art/Creativity
(open-ended projects, incorporating mediums such as paper, paints, glue, clay to encourage individual creativity)
5. Math/Science
(counting, sequencing, sorting, measuring, memory games, puzzles, geometric shapes, cooking, an awareness of nature, growth, animals, plants, outer space, and other problem-solving and investigative tasks)
