Blocks: Early math concepts, problem-solving, social-emotional skills, fine and gross muscle development, hand-eye coordination, language / literacy, and creativity.
Dramatic Play: Social skills; uses imagination and encourages role-playing. Students develop vocabulary, abstract thinking, and cooperation.
Art: Improves fine and visual motor skills when cutting, pasting, painting, and creating with a variety of materials. Math, literacy, language, social-emotional skills, science, and technology are also embedded into art.
Math / Science:
Health:
Nutrition:
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Language Arts:
CURRICULUM
Measurement, problem-solving, and exploration of materials through predicting, observing, questioning, and experimenting. Manipulatives are used to sort, classify, make patterns, and count. Students are exploring how the world around them works.
Students wash hands throughout the day( upon entering the classroom, before meals, after toileting, before and after sensory activities, and as needed). Oral health and personal safety curricula are included in lesson planning and family newsletters. Head Start classrooms brush teeth 1x / day.
Food-related activities are included in the curriculum. Familystyle meals support healthy eating. My Plate, a nutrition icon created by the USDA to remind Americans to eat healthfully and to make better food choices, is embedded into the curriculum. It uses the familiar image of a place setting to show proper proportioning of the five basic food groups as they would fit into a daily meal plan.
Indoor / Outdoor play with large and small equipment and materials help develop small and large muscles, language / literacy, cognitive skills, and social-emotional development.
Early print concepts, language development, appreciation of books, poems, chants, fingerplays, early writing skills, conversational tools, phonemic and phonological awareness, and comprehension.
Enfield Head Start implements The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, a
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