


At Daffodils Preschool we use a Teaching Strategy called “Emergent Curriculum”. This strategy believes that children learn best when they are actively involved with materials and with others. “Emergent Curriculum” is Nationally known for its forward-thinking, comprehensive, and rigorously researched model which assists in our content-rich, developmentally appropriate program that supports active learning and promotes children’s progress in all developmental areas.
Emergent Curriculum
An Emergent Curriculum helps children acquire the independence and skills needed to succeed as confident learners by allowing children to take part in their own learning and fostering their cuistoisty of the world. At Daffodils Preschool we believe that children learn through play and that we are here to create a consistent, enriching environment to help them do just that.
The five basic components of the Emergent Curriculum are:
- How Children Develop and Learn
- The Learning Environment
- What Children Learn
- The Teacher’s Role
- The Family’s Role
- How Children Develop and Learn
- The Learning Environment
- What Children Learn
- The Teacher’s Role
- The Family’s Role
Infant Curriculum
To help the infants reach appropriate milestones, we work on motor activities called Physical Experiences which focus on large and small muscles.
The infants will accomplish four activities throughout the day directed towards infant development. Before the age of one, the baby is learning to understand the things you are saying. For this reason, we provide a Listening and Talking Experience that includes reading books, singing songs, or simply talking about the surroundings. To help the infants reach appropriate milestones, we work on physical large motor activities. Experiences that focus on large and small muscles. The process of art with infants is to create, explore, and experiment with smells, textures, and tools to be able to utilize as they grow older. This activity is called Creative Experience. In our Learning from the World, Experiences infants explore sensory and are introduced to the world around us.
Toddler Curriculum
Emergent Curriculum focuses on meeting the child’s basic needs, fostering social-emotional development, developing relationships, and supporting cognition and brain development.
The goal of our toddler curriculum is to help children develop both their body and their minds in a safe and healthy place. These early, positive interactions with caring adults can give young children the confidence they need to explore their surroundings and take joy in their day-to-day discoveries. Creative Curriculum with toddlers focuses on meeting the child’s basic needs, fostering social-emotional development, developing relationships, and supporting cognition and brain development.
Preschool Curriculum
Our preschool program focuses on strengthening executive functioning skills by building confidence, motivation and participation in each child’s way of learning.
Our preschool program focuses on strengthening executive functioning skills by building confidence, motivation and participation in each child’s way of learning. The goal of our toddler curriculum is to help children learn to interact with others, express their feelings and learn prosocial ways to problem solving.
Age Groups

Infants

Toddler

Preschool

Pre-K
