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Curriculum
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At Arizona Preschools, we understand to need for learning and instruction for children of all ages and abilities. Our goal is to prepare your child for the educational challenges they will face as they continue to develop. Meeting their needs as early as the infant stage will greatly promote understanding and enjoyment of schooling throughout the years to come. The following includes some of the many services and curricular activities we have for children.
Infants
We enhance your baby's environment with soft toys, colorful books, and music. This warm and caring atmosphere will promote their healthy development.
Toddlers
Toddlers are beginning to think through their actions, solve problems, and understand language. They thrive on new experiences, so we provide them with a safe, nurturing environment that allows each child to develop naturally, individually, and happily. Daily progress reports give you information on routines like eating, napping, and diapering.
Twos
Your two-year old is ready to explore and discover the world around him or her. We spark your child's sense of discovery by providing a colorful, enriching environment that offers a wide variety of educational toys and materials. A fun, safe atmosphere filled with self-directed activities gives your child the independence he or she is so eager to enjoy and helps prepare your child to make the transition into preschool. Because your two-year old is learning words so quickly and beginning to express thoughts, we use activities like reading books aloud, nursery rhymes, and songs to expand your child's language skills.
Preschool
We want you to feel certain you're choosing a preschool that focuses on learning, yet appreciates the significance of fun. Our preschool encourages your child's development, without him or her growing up too fast. Arizona Preschools provide an atmosphere where your child can make friends and share the fun of learning with other children. We know that you want your child to be cared for by teachers who keep him or her safe, loved, and nurtured based on individual personality and unique abilities.
Learning Centers
Your child's preschool classroom itself is also an invaluable teaching tool. The space has been carefully designed to delight, intrigue and inspire young learners. Each classroom is divided into Learning Centers such as Language and Circle Time, Blocks and Creativity and Art. Each center invites your child to explore and marvel at the wonders of the world around him. No matter which area captures your child's interest on a particular day, he's developing important skills. Here are some key examples:
Circle Time
This is where children start their day through meaningful experiences like storytelling, singing songs, show and tell, and matching games. Children learn to express their ideas, associate the written word with the spoken word, and discover their world independently.
Art
Children experience art through the freedom of touching, feeling, pulling, twisting, tearing, pasting, bending, scraping, cutting, pounding, shaping, and so much more. They are developing a feel for forms, balance, line, color, and shape, as well as gaining practice in problem solving. They are learning about various relationships, sharpening their powers of observation, beginning the process of logical thinking, and developing motor skills. Art is an ideal hands-on activity for your child.
Music
Music activities give children opportunities to use their entire bodies for learning and exploring their surroundings, build awareness by listening to the many kinds of sounds, and help children experience the release and freedom of body movement. Children will be encouraged to test their vocal and kinesthetic abilities and to have fun while they are experimenting. We emphasize the enjoyment of participation.
Block and Creativity
This is an area where children can stack and count blocks to help them learn measurement, size, weight, and number concepts. They also build hand-to-eye coordination, and develop control of their wrists, hands and fingers. They will develop problem-solving skills through trial and error. If a block structure falls, your child might try it a different way until satisfied with the results.
Domestic Play
We have dress-up clothes, props, and child-sized furniture that invite children to make believe and expand their imagination. They try new careers, learn to share, make friends, and express different emotions. Children also learn life skills like turning knobs on and off or buttoning and zipping clothes.
Math
Children learn sorting and counting skills, putting materials in order, and patterning. Math is a way of finding things out, a way of problem solving. Through manipulating small materials, children will also begin to understand basic concepts such as big/little, large/small, and same/different.
Science
Children have the opportunity to have hands-on, real-life activities that encourage a sense of discovery. The activities include playing with living things, using magnets and magnifiers, and manipulating sand and water tables.
As your child moves from center to center, his or her preschool teacher will act as a guide who will listen to ideas, applaud progress, and motivate your child to envision and think in new ways.
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