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Engaging your kids in exciting lifelong learning

At A To Z Fun Care Preschool & Child Care Center, we strive to maximize your child’s potential to ensure that they learn lifelong lessons under our care and supervision. We follow a research-based curriculum that will help parents spend more time on discovery with their kids rather than preparing them as they transition to kindergarten. Our curriculum will support the holistic growth and development of kids by honing 33 essential skills through fun-induced learning and purposeful plays. It will be a multidisciplinary model that will enhance the child’s social-emotional, language, cognitive, and physical development.

Children will also be able to construct knowledge as they explore. Our professionals will guide them towards overall development, including:

Social and Emotional Development

Children will learn how to build relationships and identify feelings/emotions.

GOALS

SELF-CONCEPT

Children will learn to:

  • Take responsibility
  • Express preferences
  • Identify& manage feelings

SELF-DIRECTION

Children will learn to:

  • Follow rules & routines
  • Transition and adapt to the environment
  • Maintain attention

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Children will learn to:

  • Cooperate with others
  • Care for and respond to others
  • Build positive relationships
Physical Development

Our team will promote each child’s gross and fine motor skills through multidisciplinary activities, allowing children to use their muscles and body parts, as well as their senses, when touching, crawling, climbing, manipulating objects, and more.

GOALS

GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

Children will learn to:

  • Coordinate large movements, like dancing, jumping on a trampoline, etc.
  • Maintain balance and build strength

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Children will learn to:

  • Control small movements
  • Use writing/drawing tools

HEALTH AND SAFETY

Children will learn to:

  • Prepare and follow healthy food choices
  • Exercise daily with supervision
  • Practice proper hygiene habits
  • Demonstrate safe day to day practices
Language and Literacy Development

A child’s ability to communicate effectively is essential for relationship-building and understanding other people and the world better. May it is through listening, speaking, writing, or reading, our team is skilled to address every child’s needs.

GOALS

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Children will learn to:

  • Follow verbal directions
  • Comprehend spoken language

COMMUNICATION

Children will learn to:

  • Ask and express their ideas
  • Speak sentences

VOCABULARY

Children will learn to:

  • Read and spell

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

Children will learn to:

  • Listen to small units of sounds
  • Identifyrhyme and alliteration

CONCEPTS OF PRINT

Children will learn to:

  • Read from visual aids
  • Learning how to read from left to right and vice versa, etc.
  • Demonstrate the concepts of print

RECOGNIZING WORDS/LETTERS

Children will learn to:

  • Identifying letters and words
  • Making letter-sound connections

READING COMPREHENSION

Children will learn to:

  • Retell information/stories
  • Inquire and answer questions
  • Respond to texts

EMERGENT WRITING

Children will learn to:

  • Write their name, words, and short sentences
  • Express themselves through writing
Mathematics and Reasoning Development

We teach children how to count, create patterns, sort, compare, measure, and understand number sense.

GOALS

NUMBER CONCEPTS

Children will learn to:

  • Identify numerals
  • Count and determine the quantity
  • Understand operations

SHAPES

Children will learn to:

  • Identify shapes
  • Manipulate wholes and parts

SPATIAL AWARENESS

Children will learn to:

  • Flip and rotate objects
  • Determine the location of an object

PATTERNS AND SORTING

Children will learn to:

  • Identify patterns
  • Create patterns
  • Match, sort, and chart

MEASUREMENT

Children will learn to:

  • Estimate and measure
  • Compare and seriate

LOGIC

Children will learn to:

  • Solve problems
Creative Development

We will nurture each kid’s ability to express their ideas, feelings, and imaginations through art, music, dramatic play, and dance.

GOALS

MUSIC

Children will learn to:

  • Express feelings and emotions through music
  • Develop rhythm and tone

DANCE AND MOVEMENT

Children will learn to:

  • Express feelings and emotions through dance and movement
  • Develop dance and movement techniques and styles

VISUAL ART

Children will learn to:

  • Express feelings and emotions through visual arts (writing, drawing, sketching, etc.)
  • Develop artistic techniques and strategies

DRAMA

Children will learn to:

  • Use and create props
  • Participate in dramatic plays
Science Development

Your child has an innate ability to observe, predict, inquire, explore, and evaluate. Hence, we’ll help them nurture this gift through scientific activities.

GOALS

SCIENTIFIC REASONING

Children will learn to:

  • Inquire and predict better
  • Make observations and experiments
  • Evaluate and infer

LIFE SCIENCE

Children will learn to:

  • Identify basic needs
  • Classify organisms

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

Children will learn to:

  • Explore forces and motions
  • Identify the properties of matters

EARTH SCIENCE

Children will learn to:

  • Identify weathers and climates
  • Explore ecosystems

TECHNOLOGY

Children will learn to:

  • Learn how gadgets and technology works
Social Studies Development

Our team will cultivate your child’s empathy and sympathy. Our team will also focus on promoting your child’s ability to understand oneself in relation to the world and explore roles, responsibilities, and cultural traditions.

GOALS

FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES

Children will learn to:

  • Respect and understand diversity
  • Explore cultures and traditions
  • Identifies community and family roles

CIVICS AND ECONOMICS

Children will learn to:

  • Understand citizenship and concepts of trade

GEOGRAPHY

Children will learn to:

  • Use a map and identify types of places

HISTORY

Children will learn to:

  • Describe past events
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If you have any questions, be sure to reach out to us and we will get back to you as soon as we can.