Our   Curriculum

​​Here at First Steps, our curriculum reflects our values of learning through engaging, hands-on lessons, activities, and play! Our learning goals include:

• Offering children choices
• Providing time for leisurely exploration and for trying out new activities and ideas.

• Balancing teacher-initiated and child-initiated activities.

• Involving content that is interesting and meaningful to children.

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

• Reflecting children’s diverse cultures and communities.

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

• Providing alternating periods of active and quiet activities.

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

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

• Teaching children to read, spell and write

​Academic Goals will stem from the following subjects:

• Bible
• Social Development
• Math
• Language Arts
• Science Health
• Outside Play
• Music

Our goals include the use of cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and spiritual domains.  Though these realms have individual character we recognize that there is integration among them all.  A few of these goals within each realm are:

Cognitive

• Inspire awareness and understanding
• Stimulate creativity and wonder
• Encourage reflection and evaluation

Physical

• Encourage the development of fine motor and gross motor skills
• Encourage proper health habits

Social

• Social respect for God, others and property
• Train to participate cooperatively in a group
• Encourage self-control

Emotional

• Gain a sense of self and motivations
• Recognize personal behavior
• Encourage a sense of competence and satisfaction in the mastery of new skills

Spiritual

• Gain understanding of God’s love and forgiveness
• Inspire love for God and life lived for Him
• Love one another as ourselves