Curriculum

Toddler Curriculum

St. Philomena Early Learning Center’s Toddler Program focuses on age-appropriate early childhood education for children 15 months through 3 years old. The toddlers in the class are expected to learn through their own experiences, trial and error, repetition, imitation, and identification, by offering a variety of opportunities and providing a safe, calm, loving environment. We want each child to show growth in the areas of development-social, emotional, and cognitive.

• Language development and communication skills.
• Learning how to self-regulate emotions.
• Learning how to separate from their parent/guardian to the school/new environment.
• Learning self-care activities, which include eating, dressing, changing, sleeping, and toileting.

Toddler Program Schedule

Preschool Curriculum

St. Philomena Early Learning Center’s Preprimary Program is, first and foremost, a Catholic-Christian early learning center. Daily prayers, weekly religion lessons, and monthly prayer services are a part of the curriculum. SPELC uses the Montessori philosophical approach. Our program allows activity-centered learning with children who are mixed ages from 3-5 years old. We want each child to show growth in the areas of development- social, emotional, and cognitive.

• Practical Life – Assists the child in the development of learning to attend to a task, organize, and pursue it to completion.
  • Develop fine and gross motor control and coordination.
  • Develop skills of independence.
  • Develop a positive behavior and attitude towards people and things.
  • Develop eye-hand coordination.
• Sensorial – Bring awareness to the child’s functions of his/her senses in the environment
  • Develop observations, comparison, discrimination, seriation, association, and generalization.
• Language – Develops reading, writing, and language skills that extend throughout all areas of the learning environment.
• Math – Develops skills in math which extends throughout all areas of the learning environment.
• Cultural/Science – Cosmic and environmental studies
• Music/Art – Develops skills to allow children opportunities to sing, dance, and the freedom for creativity.
• Technology – Monitored the use of technology to demonstrate different media explorations.