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Academics » Early Childhoood Education

Early Childhoood Education
Preschool and Kindergarten
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Our Catholic School curriculum is based upon the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Master Teacher.
  
Jesus used the lived experiences of His contemporaries to teach them about God’s love for them.  His teachings endure throughout the ages because He taught in this way.  In like fashion, a developmentally appropriate curriculum will enable young children to develop the skills required for lifelong learning.

  • Curriculum content is designed to be integrated and sequential, and to  achieve long range goals for children in all domains - spiritual, social, emotional, physical, and cognitive.  Learning occurs primarily through: play, themes, projects, webs, learning centers, and activities that reflect the current interests of children.

  • Curriculum incorporates a wide variety of learning experiences, materials, equipment, and instructional strategies to accommodate individual differences and levels of instruction.  It builds on what children already know and fosters their acquisition of new concepts and skills.

  • Curriculum content is taught so as to take optimum advantage of the child's natural abilities, interests, and enthusiasm for learning.  It respects and supports individual, cultural, and linguistic diversity.

  • Curriculum in early childhood programs is a balance of child-centered and content-rich programs.  In curriculum that is both age and developmentally appropriate, the role of the adult is to facilitate children's engagement with activities.  Children have opportunities to make meaningful choices.  

  • Curriculum is supportive of children's physiological needs for activity, sensory stimulation, fresh air, rest, hygiene, and nourishment, and provides time and space indoors and outdoors for children to play, explore, and exercise.

  • Curriculum is sensitive to the importance of establishing a caring, inclusive community within which children can develop and learn.  It emphasizes the develoment of children's thinking, reasoning, decision making, and problem solving abilities.


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