Circle Infants and Toddlers Curriculum
The Circle Infant and Toddler Curriculum is a comprehensive program designed to support the development of infants and toddlers through playful, engaging activities that focus on building strong social and emotional connections while promoting learning across various development areas like cognitive, physical, language, and sensory skills, all within a nurturing and responsive environment; it provides caregivers with structured lesson plans and adaptable activities to cater to each child's unique needs and interests.
Key points about the Circle Infant and Toddler Curriculum:
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Focus on Responsive Interactions: The curriculum emphasizes building positive relationships between caregivers and children through attentive interactions and responding to their cues.
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Developmentally Appropriate Activities: Activities are specifically designed to match the developmental stages of infants and toddlers, ensuring they are age-appropriate and challenging enough to promote learning.
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Individualized Learning: The curriculum encourages caregivers to observe and adapt activities to meet each child's individual needs and interests.
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Multi-Sensory Experiences: Activities incorporate various sensory modalities like touch, sight, sound, and taste to stimulate learning and exploration.
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Social and Emotional Development: A strong emphasis is placed on fostering social skills like sharing, turn-taking, and empathy, as well as supporting emotional regulation through calming strategies.
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Daily Routines as Learning Opportunities: The curriculum views everyday routines like feeding, diaper changes, and bath time as opportunities for learning and interaction.
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Parent Engagement: Many programs utilizing the Circle Curriculum encourage parents to participate in their child's learning by providing information about activities and strategies they can implement at home
Zoo-Phonics - Toddler through PreK Curriculum
Zoo-phonics® is an effective and proven methodology!
- The Animal Alphabet helps children remember the shapes and sounds of the letters.
- Letter sounds are taught before letter names.
- Lowercase letters are taught before capital letters.
- The Body Movement for each Animal Letter helps “cement” the phonemic information into memory.
- The alphabet is taught sequentially, and as a whole entity, “a – z.” The alphabet is not fragmented.
- Short vowels are taught before long vowels.
- Phonemic patterns (at, bat, fat, sat, etc.) are taught first, rather than random word lists (of, it, then, was, etc.)
- The Zoo-phonics® curriculum is fully integrated with other subjects.
Click here for a breif video about ZooPhonics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7kykfEpKs&t=67s
Saxon Math - PreK Curriculum
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Saxon Kindergarten Math helps teach the foundational skills that children require, including oral counting; recognizing and sequencing numbers; acting out addition and subtraction stories; counting with one-to-one correspondence; identifying and counting pennies, nickels, and dimes; sorting; telling time to the hour; and using a calendar.
