Our Curriculum Will:

• Offer children choices

• Provide time for leisurely exploration and for trying out new activities and ideas.

• Balance teacher-initiated and child-initiated activities.

• Involve content that is interesting and meaningful to children.

• Involve children regularly in initiating, planning, and implementing activities and then reflecting on what they have learned.

• Reflect children’s diverse cultures and communities.

• Accommodate many learning styles and abilities and offer many ways to be successful.

• Provide alternating periods of active and quiet activities.

• Offer activities in individual, small-group, and large-group formats.

• Involve staff in regular cycles of planning, implementing, reflecting, and revising.