Curriculum Goals for Toddler Class
At SPS, our preschool classes spend every day learning through play! With specials like music, Spanish, P.E., and Library throughout the week plus a full half hour of recess every day, all of our children get a wonderfully full day of learning and moving.
Emotional Growth
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Provide safe, healthy, secure, welcoming environment away from home.
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Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.
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Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life.
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Create an environment that encourages curiosity and exploration.
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Provide experiences to increase child’s sense of competence.
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Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative.
Cognitive Growth
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Provide activities to promote language development.
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Provide activities to promote sequencing skills.
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Provide opportunities to learn expressive language through singing songs or saying fingerplays, conversation, role playing, pretend and dramatic play, peer interaction, and circle time.
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Provide activities to promote visual discrimination with colors and matching colors, simple objects or pictures.
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Invite interest in books and reading by reading, encouraging children to hold and explore books, and to “read” using pictures and memory.
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Provide opportunities to express self through music, art, movement.
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Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.
Social Growth
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Encourage beginning cooperative play, sharing, and taking turns.
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Encourage independence (leaves parent comfortably).
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Encourage sharing of adults with other children.
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Encourage responsibility for maintaining classroom environment.
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Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.
Physical Growth
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Provide activities to promote large muscle development.
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Provide activities to promote small muscle development and eye-hand.
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Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety.
Spiritual Growth
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Encourage and model being a good friend, showing love for one another.
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Encourage and model consciousness of God, exploration of God’s world.
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Introduce rituals of thankfulness.