Michell Lindsey Family Child Care, Lanham

INFANT CURRICULUM: Infants, 6 weeks to 17 months: Activities include: • listening and responding to the oral language of teachers • The opportunity to see and touch interesting books • Listening to books, poems, and literature • Develop muscle strength • Brain development activities • Develop the sense of hearing, seeing, touch, taste, and smell TODDLER CURRICULUM: Learning Objectives: • Me and my body • Making friends • My neighborhood • Science • Communicating • Problem solving • Construction and Art • Expressing feelings • Story Book Characters PRE-KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-SCHOOL CURRICULUM: Learning Objectives: School Readiness Theme 1 Work Habits Theme 2 My Family, My Community Theme 3 My Five Senses Theme 4 Month, Numbers, Seasons Theme 5 Animals Everywhere Theme 6 Language Development Theme 7 Science, Mathematics and Reading Theme 8 Recognize shapes and colors Theme 9 Growing and Changing Theme 10 Ready for Kindergarten PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM The preschool curriculum will cover the following areas: Movement and Coordination • Physical attention and relaxation • Gross motor skills • Eye-hand, and eye-foot coordination • Group games • Creative movement Autonomy and Social Skills • Sense of self and personal responsibility • Working in group setting Work Habits • Memory Skills • Following directions • Task persistence and completion Language • Oral language • Nursery rhymes, poems, finger plays/songs • Emerging literacy skills Mathematics • Patters and classifications • Geometry • Measurement • Numbers and numbers sense • Basic Addition and subtraction • Money • Orientation in time and space • Vocabulary • Measure of time • Passage of time (past, present, future) • Actual and represented space • Simple maps • Basic geographical concepts Science • Human, animal, and plant characteristics • Physical elements (water, air, and light) • Tools Music • Attend to different sounds • Imitate and produce sounds • Listen and sing • Listen and move Visual arts • Attend to visual detail • Creating art • Looking at and talking about art