Comprehensive Preschools Curriculum
Comprehensive Preschool Curriculum
We have designed a comprehensive preschool curriculum at Skyline Preschools’ Chandler, AZ, campus that teaches children essential skills to be successful in the world around them. Our quality preschool program focuses on the Arizona Early Learning Standards to help preschoolers acquire the necessary knowledge and concepts for this developmental age group.
Our teachers are trained professionals in the field of Early Childhood Education and provide a nurturing, structured environment where children feel safe, cared for, and free to use their growing imaginations.
Each day, our qualified teaching staff creates engaging daily Lesson Plans to ensure your child is learning essential concepts and skills appropriate for his or her age group. These daily Lesson Plans are posted outside of the classroom door for parents to see what activities will occur and what topics their child is learning that day.
In addition to traditional print materials such as storybooks, paper, and worksheets to practice numbers, letters, writing, colors, and artwork, our preschool also offers an exciting computer learning curriculum for students. We utilize a state-of-the-art, digital program called InvestiGator Club. The InvestiGator Club is the original investigation-based early childhood curriculum. The comprehensive prekindergarten learning system builds upon children’s natural curiosity about the world and their place in it. “Purposeful Inquiry,” the heart of The InvestiGator Club, awakens the scientist and explorer in every child. Children learn to use their senses, ask questions, and find answers in a supportive, print-rich environment.
he InvestiGator Club provides choices and creative tools for flexible “outside-the-box” teaching that inspires teachers, children, and families.
Best practices are guided by each classroom’s curriculum needs – play-based, project-oriented, or more structured based on the unique experience, teaching style, and goals of the teacher.
As mentioned above, our comprehensive preschool curriculum includes the Arizona Early Learning Standards, which is an essential guide for young learners with emerging curiosity and discovery of the world around them. The Arizona Standards focus on eight main areas including: The Social/Emotional Self, Language and Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies, Physical Development/Health/Safety, and Fine Arts. The following list shows these fundamental aspects in more detail
Arizona Early Learning Standards
1) Social/Emotional Standard:
Knowledge of Self: Self-awareness, recognition, and expression of Feelings
Social Interactions with Others: Separation and Cooperation
Responsibility for Self and Others: Self-Control and Respect
Approaches to Learning: Curiosity, Initiative, Persistence, Creativity, Problem-Solving, and Confidence
2) Language and Literacy
Oral Language Development: Listening and Understanding, Speaking and Communicating
Pre-Reading Process: Print Awareness, Booking Handling Skills, Sounds and Rhythms of Spoken Language, Letter Knowledge, Vocabulary Development, Comprehending Stories
Pre-Writing Process: Written Expression
3) Math Standard
Number Sense and Operations: Number Sense and Numerical Operations
Data Analysis: Data Collection and Organization, Patterns
Geometry and Measurement: Spatial Relationships and Geometry, and Measurement
Structure and Logic: Logic and Reasoning
4) Science Standard
Inquiry: Observations, Questions, and Hypotheses, Investigation (Scientific Testing), Analysis and Conclusions, Communication
5) Social Studies Standard
American History: Research Skills
World History: Diversity
Civics/Government: Rights, Responsibilities, and Roles of Citizenship
Geography: The World in Spatial Terms, Family Identity (Human Systems)
Economics: Foundations of Economics
6) Physical Development, Health, and Safety Standard
Physical and Motor Development:
- Gross Motor Development (Balance)
- Gross Motor Development (Coordination)
- Fine Motor Development
Health:
- Hygiene and Health Practices
Safety:
- Safety and Injury Prevention
7) Fine Arts Standard
Visual Art:
- Creating Art
- Art in Context
- Art as Inquiry
Music and Creative Movement:
- Creating Music and Movement
- Music and Creative Movement in Context
- Music and Creative Movement as Inquiry
Dramatic Play:
- Creating Dramatic Play
- Dramatic Play in Context
- Dramatic Play as Inquiry
Ready to give your child a lasting advantage in education, creativity, and life? Contact us with any questions or enroll your student in our comprehensive preschool curriculum today!