Our Curriculum

The Creative Curriculum

This trusted, theme-based curriculum is used as a framework for developing our daily plans and learning experiences for children and emphasizes that children learn best by doing.

Learning requires active thinking and experimenting to find out how things work and to learn first-hand about the world we live in.

STATE STANDARDS

WCCC follows a standard set by The Virginia Department of Education to ensure the best learning experience in our classrooms.

"The Virginia's Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS) ... focus on five Areas of Development:

Approaches to Play and Learning
Social and Emotional Development
Communication, Language, and Literacy Development
Health and Physical Development
Cognitive Development (Science, Social Sciences: People, Community and Culture, Mathematics and Fine Arts) "

CURRICULUM IN ACTION

There are both teacher-directed and child-directed activities, which are designed to actively engage children in learning and promote their creative expression. Children are engaged in developmentally appropriate activities in both large and small group settings, as well as individual choice times where children can select their own activities.

OUR CLASSROOMS

Each room is designed with learning centers (art, blocks and manipulatives, library, dramatic play, sensory, etc.) from which children choose from a variety of developmentally appropriate activities throughout the day.