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Curriculum & Activities
“Curriculum” is a term used to describe all of the components or elements used in our early education programs. The City of Dublin’s Preschool curriculum encompasses the following foundations:
Social/Emotional Development
- Building relationships
- Community
- Conflict resolution
- Cooperative play
- Emotions
- Empathy
- Moral development
- Self-identity
- Sense of competence
Language, Literacy & Communication
- Alphabetic knowledge
- Book knowledge
- Comprehension
- Concepts about print
- English language learning
- Phonological awareness
- Reading
- Speaking
- Vocabulary
- Writing
Mathematics
- Counting
- Data analysis
- Measuring
- Number words and symbols
- Part-whole relationships
- Patterns
- Shapes
- Spatial awareness
- Unit
Science & Technology
- Classifying
- Communicating ideas
- Drawing conclusions
- Experimenting
- Natural and physical world
- Observing
- Predicting
- Tools and technology
- Appreciating the arts
- Art
- Learning creative expression
- Movement
- Music
- Pretend play
- Body awareness
- Fine-motor skills
- Gross-motor skills
- Healthy behavior
- Personal care
Class activities for both programs are centered on developing these described foundations within a core of play-based scheduled activities:
- Arts and crafts
- Circle time
- Free play (inside and outside)
- Games
- Music
- Sharing
- Science and sensory area - Enhances sensory awareness and development through developmentally appropriate science activities
- Free arts and crafts area - Complements freedom of expression and our thematic learning component with specific focus on developing fine motor skills
- Academic area - Focusing on specific symbols, English language comprehension, and concept skills
- Block area - Building and engineering, experimenting, developing mathematical and analytical skills
- Dramatic play - Promoting creativity and social development
- Manipulative area - Strengthens cognitive development, alpha and number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships, shapes, spatial awareness, measuring, unit, patterns, data analysis, and so much more!