Curriculum

Educational Excellence at Every Age

Kids R Kids Infant Toddler Classrooms

These classrooms provide a nurturing environment that encourages our learners to develop their skills in exploration of the world around them.  Our teachers provide hands-on learning experiences for each domain:

• Listening and Talking – Books and pictures conversation
• Physical Development – Large and small muscles
• Creative Activities – Art, Blocks, Dramatic Play, and Music
• Learning from the World – Nature, numbers, shapes, size, color, senses

In these environments, you will find quality care focused on the individual needs of your child.  You’ll notice the discussions around the theme and “word of the week.”  The experiences the teachers provide are a benefit to the social and emotional connections of your child, as well as cognitive and physical growth. 

Sign Language for One and Two Year Old

Our teachers are encouraging language development by expressing words of actions and objects in two ways.  When a word is spoken, such as “milk,” the teacher uses the sign language with the verbal expression and the action of giving the milk.  Through association and repetition, the infants and toddlers are able to imitate and communicate with their hands as early as eight months.  New signs are introduced each month.  This allows the child to be empowered with the ability to clearly express their needs. 

Private PreSchool

Our Kids R Kids Preschool Curriculum is focused on providing rich experiences for the individual child.  With all of our children, we provide activities to ‘make their little world into a big world.’  They need opportunities to explore and make connections about the world around them.  Then, take their knowledge and grow to the next skill.  The children are also working towards potty training success in these rooms. You’ll see more language opportunities, along with physical experiences to develop fine and gross motor.  Here are some specific skills that are opportunities to learn.  Each child works and grows at their own pace, thus there is not a requirement of these skills.  We do feel that children can be ready for new challenges in these academic areas and we have found much success.

Two Year Old Program

• Skills include language development & listening skills that include color words, shapes, animals, transportation, countries, community helpers, health, safety, manners, science.
• Simple counting and sets of numbers 1 – 10, identifying pairs and opposites

Three Year Old Program

• Recognition of letter, sound, and picture for alphabet
• Formation of letters in upper and lowercase
• Continued language development and listening skills that include color words, shapes, animals, transportation, countries, community helpers, health, manners, safety, science
• Numbers 1 – 15
• Opposites and pairs, sequence of events
• Awareness of environment daily with senses, seasons, and weather

Private Pre-K through Kindergarten – Macmillan McGraw-Hill and Kids R Kids Curriculum

These classrooms incorporate an academic emphasis from Macmillan McGraw Hill in the morning, coupled with Kids R Kids, which highlights learning through play, in the afternoon.  Theme related cross curricular lessons and activities are provided around large and small group instruction.  Daily small group instruction is a Kids R Kids Lakes on Eldridge tenet.  We find it meets the child’s needs most directly and allows for maximum growth and development in these academic areas.

Four Year Old Program

Beginning Phonics and Reading

• Recognition of name, sounds, and pictures of long and short vowels and consonants
• Sounding of blends and 1 &  2 vowel words
• Reading sentences and stories
• Continued language development and listening skills.

• Formation of letters, blends, and words
• Writing first name

• Number Recognition and counting 1 -100
• Number concepts 1 – 20
• Numbers before and after 1 – 20
• Largest and smallest, and adding on 1.
• Sets, comparing, sequencing, money, time, calendar, addition 1- 5, problem solving, graphs, patterns, shapes and solids.

Private Kindergarten

We have aligned our program with Cy-Fair standards, using MacMillian McGraw-Hill curriculum.  Although, we feel that we are exceeding the school district’s expectations because we center our instruction around small groups and differentiate with individualized methods.

Phonics and Reading

• Recognition of name, sounds, and pictures of long and short vowels and consonants
• Sounding of blends, one and two vowel words, and words with special sounds
• Phonics rules and special sounds
• Incorporating high frequency words and decoding strategies to be a fluent reader
• Continued language development, poetry, analogies, and phonemic awareness
• Listening and oral reading comprehension
• Strengthening your child’s phonemic awareness abilities for beginning reading

• Formation of letters, blends, words, and sentences in manuscript, then cursive
• Name
• Phonetically spelling sentences that corresponds to an illustration using conventions of writing

• Number recognition, counting, and writing to 100, by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
• Number concepts
• Sets, comparing, sequencing, money, time, calendar, addition 1- 10, introduction to subtraction, problem solving, ordinals, graphs, patterns, shapes and solids.

• Plants, animals, health, earth & space
• Community Helpers, Children of the World, and America

After School Age Program

Students have the opportunity to explore themed units on an independent basis through hands-on center activities and outdoor fun. Character Building and Value words are part of the units.  Homework Support is given daily and homework reports will be sent home to parents.