San Diego Child Care Center

Toddler Curriculum

The Kids' Care Club curriculum for your 18 to 30 month old is to spend days engaged in activities that promote learning and discovery. Whether it's walking up the stairs or sliding down the slide of our specially designed loft, stacking building blocks, measuring water in our water table or playing with their favorite age-appropriate toy, your child will learn as they discover and explore.

The Toddler curriculum focuses on continued listening to and talking with children. You will see our teachers "down on the floor" interacting with your children. This allows the teachers to relate at the child's level. We consistently listen and talk with the children - encouraging their emotional and language development. We surround the children with age-appropriate toys - encouraging exploration and discovery, thus enhancing their overall development. Your child will spend each day exploring the different activity areas in the classroom. The toddler classroom is designed with activity areas with special purposes and experiences, so necessary for toddler growth and development.

We believe that staff and parent interaction and feedback are crucial to the success of our program. We accomplish this through close, personal relationships between our children's teachers and our parents by daily conversations, communication logs, message boards, and parent involvement meetings.

Preschool Curriculum

The Kids' Care Club curriculum supports the development and learning of each child. Our goal is to provide developmentally appropriate activities to develop each child socially, emotionally, physically, linguistically and cognitively through child-guided exploration. Our program is designed to build self-confidence and promote curiosity, initiative, and a love of learning. Our curriculum is built to bring the world into the classroom. We provide hands-on activities and independent creative play to allow the child to develop at their own pace. We provide a comprehensive curriculum that starts with exploration and experimentation while incorporating broad-based learning experiences that provides the foundation for academic success and lifelong skills. Our curriculum covers the following areas of concentration:

* Language Arts: Pre-reading and pre-writing skills, vocabulary building, letter recognition (upper/lower case), letter sounds, and literature rich environment.

* Math: Mathematics is everywhere, all around us. It relates to things we do everyday. In the home, mathematics is used while cooking, filling a cup of milk, stacking cups, sorting clothes and counting things. Math concepts include: Colors, shapes, numbers, counting, one to one correspondence, patterns & relationships, geometry, measurement, and time.

* Art: Creative art through painting, drawing, gluing, cutting, and collage. Art experiences stimulate children's expressiveness. Their art is free, unafraid, messy, honest, and personal.

* Science. Look around. Science is everywhere. It is a way of thinking that offers children powerful ways to understand their world. Water, Gardening, Air, Magnets, Pets and Colors are a few science concepts we explore.

* Music and Movement. Music is a universal language. Young children need to have a variety of music experiences that are casual and spontaneous. Singing, dancing, movement, and musical instruments are always a favorite.

* Cooking. Cooking is a "magical" activity for young children. Cooking activities appear to all of the child's senses - sight, smell, taste, hearing, and feeling. Cooking is a rich experience in our classroom.

* Dramatic Play. Housekeeping and dress-up, re-enacting stories, building vocabulary through play are a few things you will find in our program.