Curriculum

Our curriculum is designed around four crucial foundations to help develop the growth of every aspect of every child.

Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP):

Social

Your child will facilitate interaction and communication with  others through both verbal and nonverbal skills. Children will learn cooperation, sharing, participation, helping others, patience, following directions, taking turns, listening, remaining on task, courteousness, manners, and respect.

Emotional

Children will learn self-awareness in a positive, nurturing setting where they can feel safe to express, manage, deal with and control their emotional states.  Emotional self-regulation is a skill they will learn to incorporate into their daily lives as well as emotion recognition.

Physical

Aside from our available extracurricular activities all children are encouraged and reinforced to participate in sports and other physical engagements that help each child build balancing skills, coordination, flexibility, speed, reaction time, agility, strength and endurance.  Large, well-equipped outside play areas challenge each child’s body and help foster a positive attitude toward fitness, competition, and cooperation.

Cognitive

Along with the alternating weekly themes of colors, letters, shapes, math and science, our teacher’s focus is to help establish information processing in the form of early child care education.  Children are taught the use and importance of reasoning, perception, intuition, spatial skills, concentration, and memory through varied, entertaining, mind challenging activities.

Small World Child Care Centers understand the importance of the early development of these skills to help children establish life-long retention and practice habits for a successful future in learning.