As an ongoing effort to be sensitive to the needs, concerns, and expectations of parents. I would like you to provide in-depth information regarding curriculum and programming at Fun Time Learning Center Inc.

Many of you see a preschool program that vastly different than the one that you may have attended as a child. Many of you see a preschool where it seems all we do all day is play, read on, and discover there is a lot more to a day at preschool than meets the eye.

In fact, High Scope’s curriculum is carefully developed from the latest research and policy in education from the top educator, researchers, and administrations nationwide. Our Program follows many of the same curriculum standards and guidelines advocate by leading child care organizations and educational programs.

What follows is a discussion of current theory and research and then a brief (certainly not complete) outline of daily preschool activities and how they meet academics objectives.

Unlike older children, preschool-age children are unable to learn through abstract or passive methods. Young children learn best by direct hands-on experience. The need to actively explore and manipulate materials and toys, discovering answers, properties, relationships, skills, and concepts for themselves. Classroom experience needs to be concretely relevant to a child’s personal knowledge and maturation level. Often this is referred to as an age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate curriculum, an approach that meets educational goals based on research on how young children learn best. Some researchers and policymakers tell us “Play is the work of childhood”. It is a Childs very personal way of interacting with their world and learning to master the possibilities in it. The High Scope Curriculum is much more than meets the eye, it is the very serious endeavor of starting a life-long path of learning and having a little fun along the way!

• Block Building – Mathematical goals (spatial concept, problem-solving, balance, and weights cooperation)
• Stringing beads – Mathematical goals( correspondence counting, pattern, sequencing)
  Literacy goals (visual motors coordination left to right concepts)
• Fingerplays and rhymes- Literacy goals ( auditory discrimination, phonetic skills, auditory memory, concept comprehension, visual-motor coordinator, vocabulary development)
• Concentration game- Literacy goals (auditory discrimination, symbolic decoding, visual memory, concept development. Mathematical goals(matching and classification)
• Drawing and Painting- Literacy goals (symbolic representation, visual memory, visual-motor coordination, and creative expression)

I hope these materials have enabled you to understand the amount of care and consideration that goes into a planning quality and worthwhile preschool experience for your child.