Early Childhood Curriculum

<FONT face=Arial Black size=3><FONT face=Arial Black size=3><P>Early Childhood Curriculum </FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial Black color=#ffffff size=4><FONT face=Arial Black color=#ffffff size=4><FONT face=Arial Black color=#ffffff size=4>5</P></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT face=Myriad Pro size=7><FONT face=Myriad Pro size=7><P>Early Childhood Curriculum</P></B></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Myriad Pro><P>The <B><I>Early Childhood Curriculum </B></I>book consists of sequential developmental skills</P><P>and activities. Each age group (0-6 months) and (6-12 months) contains a theme</P><P>with different activities for the infant and the units follow these themes. This</P><P>curriculum is arranged and organized to ensure that cognitive physical</P><P>emotional language and social areas are addressed. Activities are</P><P>developmentally appropriate so that the children can receive the best possible</P><P>stimulation. This book contains lessons ideas and activities that any person</P><P>would be able to use. People including parents presenters school administrators</P><P>graduate students staff members in childcare laboratories and early childhood</P><P>teachers are all individuals that could benefit from using this curriculum.</P><P>This curriculum contains units and ideas that are simple and easy to</P><P>understand so that readers parents and teachers can use it on a daily basis both</P><P>in the classroom and at home. It is functional and pleasing to the eye and it</P><P>covers quality not just quantity. This curriculum is also unique because it is user</P><P>friendly. The simplicity is convenient for our readers' and professionals' busy</P><P>schedules. Parents and professionals rarely have the time or luxury of</P><P>uninterrupted periods to sit read and search through and pull out the</P><P>information that is needed. This simplified version gives them that opportunity.</P><P>The latest research shows that between birth to three years of age is the time</P><P>when a child's mental capacity is the greatest. Research illustrates that if positive</P><P>and appropriate stimulation of a child's mind is provided the child will become a</P><P>better-rounded individual. Recent research also supports the link between</P><P>literacy and school success; literacy refers to reading and writing skills and</P><P>building oral language skills such as listening and speaking. Childcare providers</P><P>can foster the development of literacy in children. Strategies used to develop</P><P>reading and writing include: listening to stories reading stories talking and</P><P>listening to children playing sound games saying nursery rhymes singing songs</P><P>singing and saying words that rhyme using phonetic sounds exploring rhythms</P><P>scribbling and verbally labeling objects and events. Caregivers and parents can</P><P>use seasonal songs rhymes and stories throughout the year. Also choose and use</P><P>age appropriate toys songs rhymes and books that go along with the themes and</P><P>units in the curriculum. The appropriate books to use with infants are board</P><P>books and plastic books with real photos that can be seen easily.</P><P>Coming Fall 2003: <B><I>The Early Childhood Curriculum Resource Book