Focuses on daily learning experiences that help children communicate orally, interact with others, participate in problem-solving activities, and think critically.
Provides opportunities for children to interact with books, identify sounds, rhyming words, and develop letter-sound relationships.
Promotes writing development.
Encourages children to demonstrate mathematical understanding by using real objects as they discuss, investigate, question, and verify.
Enables children to acquire knowledge about themselves as individuals and as members of a family, a community, and the world.
Offers opportunities for children to observe, explore, experiment, and investigate the world around them.
Utilizes a variety of learning centers and stations to reinforce skills.
Encourages children’s creativity and higher-level thinking.
Provides for the use of computers and appropriate software.
