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:
- Blocks
- Dramatic Play
- Toys and Games
- Art
- Library
- Discovery
- Sand and Water
- Music and Movement
- Cooking
- Computers