Approaches to Learning

Organizing, goal-setting, and interacting with peers and the environment.

Creative Arts

Express both feelings and ideas through song, dance, visual arts, and drama.

Language

Implementing both express and receptive vocabulary and conversation skills to communicate effectively.

Literacy

Showing phonological understanding, alphabet awareness, writing and reading skills.

Logic & Reasoning

Constructively showing sequencing, problem-solving, and symbolic and critical thinking skills.

Early Math

The comprehension of patterns, sorting, numbers, and ordering, alongside the implementation of numbers for addition, subtraction, measurement, and graphing.

Sample Activity: Are We In Half?
Milestone: Understanding fractions.

Desired Outcome: Child separates a group of objects in half.

• The teacher invites the children to help count how many children are in the group, then writes the number at the top of a large piece of paper with a marker. (Interested children can help write numbers.)
• The teacher says they are going to try to divide the group in half by sorting in different ways. The children help decide on a way to divide themselves (boys and girls, shoes and sandals, green shirts and not green shirts, etc.). The teacher writes this way on the paper.
• Once the children are divided, they count how many are in each group. Did the larger group get divided in half? The teacher writes these new numbers on the paper.
• The teacher and children continue finding different ways to divide the group and determining if they are divided in half.

Nature & Science

Observing, describing, predicting, and gathering data in the interest of understanding and exploring the physical and natural world.

Sample Activity: Red, White, and Blue Flowers
Milestone: Questioning and developing hypotheses.

Desired Outcome: Child asks “what will happen if” questions to help predict a future event.

• Children fill two containers with water (not quite to the top). Children count the drops as the teacher adds red food coloring to one container and blue to the other.
• Each child snips the end of a flower, chooses a color, and puts it in the container. The teacher asks questions, such as what color the flower is, how plants and flowers get water, and what they think will happen as the flowers soak in the colored water.
• Throughout the week, flowers are kept in a safe place and the teacher encourages them to check on the flowers, plus talk or write about what is happening.
• At the end of the week, each child selects a flower to bring home.

Social Studies

Developing an understanding of themselves, their families, their communities, and the world around them.

Physical Development

Developing fine and gross motor skills; comprehending health and nutrition.

Expert Corner:
Get Moving, Get Learning

Movement is critical to providing a child’s brain with blood and oxygen, which is why combining movement and learning can be so helpful for children. That’s why Kids Space Learning Center offers active learning, and now, you can use these same ideas at home with your child.

…children’s brains are more alert when they are moving. This is why it can be so important to incorporate movement into educational activities, such as practicing literacy skills.

Social-Emotional Development

Demonstrating respect and empathy for others through self-awareness.