“I Love You” & “Thank You” — Making Cards With Kids
Art activities for saying “I love you” and “thank you” with more than words. All little ones show love and affection in their own special ways. Babies will show you they [...]
All Day Early Learning pre-K classrooms utilize The Creative Curriculum, a research-based early child care and education curriculum. The learning objectives of this curriculum are aligned with Indiana’s Early Learning Foundations and include child-directed activities that address language & literacy, math, science, social-emotional, and physical development.
Your child’s classroom will have an individualized lesson plan posted every week. Each activity on the lesson plan is purposeful and intentionally planned based on the teachers’ observations of each child in the classroom.
To support language development and emergent writing skills, teachers:
Children use math to solve problems, create plans and interpret the world around them. To encourage the exploration of math concepts, teachers:
Children are given opportunities to engage in hands-on scientific exploration and predict outcomes of experiments. To help children explore science concepts, teachers:
Our teachers help children learn how to:
The curriculum incorporates gross (large) motor development and also personal care routines. Children learn to:
Our pre-K classrooms are designed for learning with spaces to accommodate large and small groups, individual work, and messy play. Children have the freedom to engage in the activities and centers that interest them most including pretend play, blocks, math and science, art, sensory play and writing.
Individual and group activities are designed to provide enrichment in all areas of development, and are based on the teacher’s specific observations of each child’s interests, skills, and current developmental level.
Day Early Learning pre-K teachers nurture the interests, curiosity and skills of your child. Through intentional, play-based activities and classroom activities that build both social skills and independent learning, our pre-K students benefit from individualized educational support on a daily basis.
Assessing Pre-K Development
Each week, you will receive written observations of your child’s development on LifeCubby. These observations are used to help teachers create meaningful lesson plans that will ignite curiosity in your child and help us monitor your child’s growth and learning on a daily basis.
When parents enroll in our program and each time your child transitions to a new classroom, teachers and parents complete the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). This tool allows us to help you track your child’s progress in language, problem solving, fine and gross motor, and social-emotional development. It also helps us ensure the right materials and supports are being used to help your child reach the next stage of their development.
In the fall, winter, and spring our teachers complete an overall assessment on your child’s progress using a tool from the Indiana Department of Education called ISTAR-KR (KR=kindergarten readiness). This assessment is aligned to the Indiana kindergarten standards in the areas of English/Language Arts and Mathematics.
In addition to measuring children’s growth, our learning environments and teaching staff are regularly assessed using classroom observation tools to ensure the highest level of teacher-child interactions. This is important because high-quality environments and teacher-child interactions encourage and promote children’s language, math, vocabulary and social skills.
Interested in getting started at Day Early Learning? The process begins by completing the form below. Your information will be used to contact you about available openings at our centers, tours and other information.