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Our Curriculum |
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The Holding Hands curriculum has been structured to foster the development
of important basic skills. We encourage our children to become early emergent
readers and writers, skilled in beginning mathematics, and practiced in
the art of observation, creative thinking, and problem solving. Art, music,
movement, sports and nature are vital extensions of our more formal classroom
activities.
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The development of our curriculum is an ongoing process. We are committed
to providing a curriculum that is negotiated between the teachers and
children thus enhancing and facilitating children’s construction
of his or her own powers of thinking. Our emergent theme based curriculum
is one that builds upon the interests of our children. |
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| Because children learn with their entire beings, their bodies,
minds and emotions and have an innate desire to master their world,
we believe that they learn best in an emotionally supportive atmosphere,
through experiences that grow out of the environment and the resources
at hand. Our educational materials are age-appropriate, and progress
from the concrete to the abstract. We integrate the curriculum so
that math, literacy and art are addressed in a variety of ways.
This approach to education encourages the ability to develop solutions
to intricate and complex problems, facilitates the development of
analytic skills, and promotes flexibility in thinking. |
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