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Education

 

Head Start strives to provide quality care and education by promoting a safe, healthy, nurturing, and positive learning classroom environment.

The Head Start classrooms engage children’s learning with The Creative Curriculum for Preschool which is based on five components to form a framework that is applied in each of the classroom interest areas as well as outdoors.  This framework basis its principals on theory and research which involves:

  • Teacher-Child Interactions and Relationships
  • Social-Emotional Competence
  • Constructive, Purposeful Play
  • Interacting with the Environment
  • Partnerships with Families

The Creative Curriculum 10 classroom interest areas that you can find in our Head Start classrooms are:

  1. Blocks
  2. Dramatic Play
  3. Toys and Games
  4. Art
  5. Library
  6. Discovery
  7. Sand and Water
  8. Music and Movement
  9. Cooking
  10. Computers