More About WCC Curriculum

WCC is a NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) Accredited center. Our curriculum also has a strong focus on nature, art, music, and natural environments. “Emergent Curriculum” encompasses a child centered approach that emerges out of the ideas and needs of the children in the program. Each of our classrooms applies the center wide curriculum as to what is developmentally appropriate for their age group.

· We embrace a “wholistic” (as in whole child) approach to teaching and caring for the young child, birth through age five.

· The crux of this approach is that in infancy and early childhood, daily life experience is the “curriculum” and this curriculum is based on Best Practices. Best Practices is a term used by NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) and HSD (Health and Human Services Department) to describe the optimal health and safety practices and procedures implemented in childcare.• Children are provided a nurturing environment that meets their social/emotional needs as well as their physical and academic needs.

· We focus on strong daily rhythms for play, meal times and rest, while providing a backbone of familiar, nurturing activities such as painting, handwork, baking, color work, gardening, music and movement.

· Our calendar year follows the seasons with various multicultural themes and center events interspersed.

· Our caring and talented teachers enrich the curriculum with a strong focus on building social skills, positive peer interaction, honoring diversity and fostering inclusiveness.

· Our goal is to ensure that children at all age levels are engaged and stimulated with a love of learning, while receiving the nurturing and care they need in a natural, soothing environment.

· As each child grows and transitions from one developmental step to the next, they are presented with new levels of learning and experience.

· By the time Kindergarten approaches, the child will have the strong social skills needed to make the transition into the wider school world.