Our Curriculum & Early Learning Standards

Curriculum 

All About Preschooler, An Environment Based Curriculum is used as a guide for planning throughout the year.  We use a variety of other thematic bases to give the children a wide variety of learning activities throughout the year.

The Creative Curriculum for Infants & Toddlers and Preschool, by: Amy Laura Dombro, Laura J. Colker & Trister Dodge is used along with a variety of early childhood resources published by: The National Association for the Education of Young Children.

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Early Learning Standards

The Early Learning Standards are used as a framework for early development. The ‘Early Learning Standards’ were developed by a task from the Child Development Bureau Division for Youth and Families NH Department of Health and Human Services; copies are available in the office or the classrooms. The staff is trained annually on implementing these guidelines in our programs.

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The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale

The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS) and the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scales (ITERS) are used to determine the quality of our environments and to set improvement goals. We use these scales as guidelines to make sure our environment remains high quality.

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Granite Steps for Quality

This is a state wide initiative providing training, staff support and techniques which support the importance of quality early childhood programming.  We are in the beginning phase of this initiative as it started in July of 2022, we qualified for step one in December of 2022.  We resubmitted our status for a higher step in late 2023 and qualified for step three in January 2024!

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Goals and Objectives 

1. To build a partnership with families by: involving them in their child’s program; listening to and discussing their questions; communicating regularly; offering regular conferences; offer information regarding child development; assisting with community resources and being respective of their values.

2. To include families in collaboration of implementing the Pyramid Model and the importance of teaching children our important expectations: being safe, being kind and being responsible.

3. To partner with families in creating a culture of kindness, caring and being compassionate for one another. 

4. To provide developmentally appropriate learning activities which allows children to be actively involved in their learning and ensuring that the curriculum addresses all areas of development: Language/communication, physical, social/emotional and cognitive development. 

5. To provide a quality, clean environment which enhances early learning. 

6. To create an environment which supports diversity and makes necessary modifications for individual needs of children and their families. 

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