Whole-child growth
Children build social, emotional, physical, language, and thinking skills alongside early academic learning.
Curriculum
Curiosity leads the way.
We use The Creative Curriculum to guide meaningful, hands-on learning across our classrooms. Children learn through play, exploration, and discovery as teachers build on their questions and support growth across the whole child.
Learning in action
Choose an area to explore.
Learning through play
Science & Discovery
Children investigate materials, make predictions, notice changes, and talk about what they discover.
The Creative Curriculum at Learning Garden
Play has purpose. Curiosity has room to grow.
Our teachers use The Creative Curriculum as a thoughtful guide, then build on children’s questions and interests. Everyday experiences become opportunities to grow language, early math, science, relationships, confidence, and independence.
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Notice and wonder
Children share what they know and what they want to find out.
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Explore together
They investigate with real materials, books, art, movement, and play.
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Share discoveries
Children talk, draw, build, and show what they have learned.
For example: A question about seeds can lead to planting, observing changes, counting, drawing, reading, and new questions.
An official overview of hands-on learning and family connections in The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K.
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Purposeful play, exploration, and real materials give children active ways to practice new skills.
Responsive teaching
Teachers observe, encourage, and extend learning based on each child’s development and interests.
What children explore
Many ways to learn.
Room to grow.
These areas connect throughout the day. A story, a building project, a question about nature, or a song can support more than one kind of learning.
Social and emotional growth
Build relationships, recognize feelings, practice cooperation, and grow confidence.
Physical development
Strengthen coordination and body awareness through movement, active play, and hands-on activities.
Language
Grow communication through conversation, listening, new words, and sharing ideas.
Literacy
Explore books, stories, sounds, letters, drawing, and the first steps of writing.
Mathematics
Discover counting, patterns, shapes, measuring, sorting, and numbers in everyday experiences.
Cognitive development
Practice attention, memory, reasoning, curiosity, and solving problems.
Science and technology
Ask questions, notice details, investigate materials, and explore how things work.
Social studies
Learn about families, communities, places, routines, and the people who help others.
The arts
Express ideas and imagination through art, music, movement, and pretend play.
English language development
Support children who are learning English through conversation, stories, play, and meaningful classroom experiences.
Faith is part of each day
Learning with love, kindness, and purpose.
Our Christian faith shapes the way we teach, guide, and care for children. We encourage children to learn about the love of Jesus and to practice kindness, respect, patience, and care for one another.
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