Learning at Little People’s Center
At LPC, we work through a theme-based curriculum. From All About Me, to Dinosaurs, to Space, we cover it all!
Relating to these themes, we work on fine motor skills through crafts and activities as well as gross motor skills through themed dance parties and guided songs and dances! Our goal is to be a part of your “village” and help your children thrive in/make sense of their ever-evolving environment.
We are big advocates for play-based learning; play is so important for socialization, problem solving and coping skills. We encourage face-to-face engagement with other children, caring adults, and the natural world.
It is our mission to help each child maximize his/her potential in education and social areas
including social relationships, language development, learning skills, and physical abilities.
Language Development
Children are encouraged to become emergent readers and writers through the use of developmentally appropriate language and literature. Oral language development is encouraged through the use of singing, finger plays and flannel boards. Stories are read every day; our center provides a wide, expansive library utilizing current and traditional early childhood texts. Children are invited to experiment with language in many ways; the writing of lists, signs, labels, songs, creative spelling and the taking of children’s diction.
Personal, Social, and Emotional Development
Children at our center engage in a variety of activities that help them develop positive images of themselves by expressing personality and individualism, representing imagination and fantasy and through establishing enjoyable relationships with others. Ultimately, our center’s goals for personal, social, and emotional development of the children include making relationships, developing self-confidence and self-esteem, providing self-care, the importance of positive dispositions and attitudes, having self-control and positive behaviors, and a balanced sense of community.
Mathematics
Teachers provide the children hands-on developmentally appropriate math experiences giving children opportunities to develop math awareness and understanding. Experiencing their world and their place in it encourages them to understand that mathematics is everywhere. Our curriculum accommodates a variety of developmental levels as well as individual differences while using math language to encourage the promotion and acquisition of understanding mathematical concepts.
Science
Our center offers a developmentally appropriate science curriculum giving children many open-ended opportunities to investigate, self-discover and problem solve, both indoors and outdoors. A wide range of observation and exploration activities involving the use of our natural environment, water, the five senses and life cycles allow the children to investigate, discover, explore and make science a part of every child’s day.
