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What is the Creative Curriculum®?

The Creative Curriculum® is a comprehensive curriculum with a clear organizational structure and a particular focus on interest areas.

The Curriculum Framework presents the five components:

  •  How Children Develop and Learn
  •  The Learning Environment
  •  What Children Learn
  •  The Teacher's Role
  •  The Family's Role

On the basis of scientific research and state and professional standards, The Creative Curriculum® identifies the knowledge, skills, and concepts important for children to acquire in each content area: literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology. We describe the key components of these content areas:

  •  Literacy: vocabulary and language, phonological awareness, letters, words, print,  comprehension, books and other texts, and sources of enjoyment
  •  Mathematics: numbers; patterns and relationships; geometry and spatial awareness;  measurement; and data collection, organization, and representation
  •  Science: physical science, life science, and earth and the environment
  •  Social Studies: spaces and geography, people and how they live, people and the  environment, and people and the past
  •  The Arts: dance, music, drama, and the visual arts
  •  Technology: awareness of technology, basic operations and concepts, technological tools,  and people and technology

Home and school are a young child's two most important worlds. Children must bridge these two worlds every day. If home and school are connected in positive and respectful ways, children feel secure. However, children suffer when the two worlds are at odds because of apathy, lack of understanding, or an inability to work together. Teachers can build a true partnership when they truly value the family's role in a child's education and recognize how much they can accomplish by working with families.

Interest Areas:

  •  Blocks
  •  Dramatic play
  •  Toys and games
  •  Art
  •  Library
  •  Discovery
  •  Sand and water
  •  Music and movement
  •  Cooking
  •  Computers
  •  Outdoors


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