The Early Childhood

Education Curriculum
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What is Curriculum?
 Young children can seem like sponges. They learn quickly
and are often filled with curiosity about the world around
them. Schools and day care centers that work with the
young children that have such a unique opportunity to
guide students and families toward a lifetime filled with a
love for learning. Curriculum is an important part for this
process.
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✘ It can mean a philosophy, a program, an approach, or a set of
specific materials and activities that are purchased as a boxed
curriculum.
✘ It consist of the knowledge and skills to be acquired in the
educational programs as well as the plans for experiences through
which children’s learning will take place (NAEYC, 2009).
✘ The knowledge and skills teachers are expected to teach and
children are expected to learn, and the plans for experiences
through which learning will take place (The Intentional Teacher,
2007).
7 Domains/Learning Areas of Early
Childhood Developent
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GROSS MOTOR
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All about Gross Motor Domain

✘ Children learn to use the big muscles groups of their body.
Crawling, walking, jumping, climbing are all examples of
this. We are all excited by those first steps, but they lead a
greater things like biking, kicking, dancing and swinging.
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FINE MOTOR
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All about Fine Motor Domain

✘ Learning hand-eye coordination is the focus
here. Kids learn how to control precise
muscle movement in their hands to build
fine-motor skills.coloring, cutting with
scissors, tearing papers are all activities
which reinforce this development. Legos,
origami, knitting, drawing, whittling and
sewing help keep the mind and the hands
engaged as partners as the children get
older.
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RECEPTIVE AND EXPRESSIVE

LANGUAGE
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All about Language Domain

✘ This domain centers on the child’s ability to speak, read, and write involving
alphabetic and phonetic learning. Reading and talking regularly with your kids
when they are very young is important, and the conversations you continue to
have around the table or in the car enhance their ability to communicate their
opinions, wants, and needs with others.
✘ Watching and hearing Mom and Dad speak is the first exposure children have to
language, and navigating family interactions gives them skills to carry into the
wider world.
✘ Learning the ABC’s, the “magic” words like “please” and “I’m Sorry”, and the
wonder of a simple thank you note are all prime examples.
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SELF-HELP/ADAPTIVE
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All about Self-helpAdaptive Domain

✘ In this domain children begin to show a little independence and learn
how to take care of themselves.
✘ Learning to dress and eat on their own, how to tie their own shoes and
brush their own teeth are all examples of becoming less dependent on
Mom and Dad. Potty training is a big milestone here.
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COGNITIVE DOMAIN
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All about Cognitive Domain

✘ Children learn cause and effect and reasoning here, as well
as early math skills, counting and patterning during pre-
school years.
✘ We all know the game our little ones love to play when they
drop the spoon from his or her high-chair so Mom and Dad
can pick it up. When we do that, we’re teaching cause and
effect.
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SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DOMAIN
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All about Socio-Emotional Domain

✘ We are all social beings and our kids are no different.
Learning to play with other is a skill that is taught. Making
sure a child feels safe and nurtured is part of this
development as is using manners and modelling kind
behavior.
✘ Kids learn what they see and we are their first examples.
The things they learn to do reflexively become self-
reinforcing habits as they grow older and see the effects of
their manners and behaviors.
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SPIRITUAL AND MORAL

DOMAIN
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All about Spiritual and Moral Domain

✘ Teaching your child to love and obey God is the most important thing
you can ever do. Recognizing the difference between right and wrong
will fall in place if you are simultaneously teaching and modelling
God’s Love.

✘ Additionally, positive influences like the instructors at our preschool can

help your little one to get better grasp on the difference between what is
right and wrong, as well as learning to accept those who are different
from them.
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“Learning is a fluid process that never stops. The domains are equally
important, interrelateand overlap as learning occurs. As they grow, and
children interact with the world around them they not only exercise
their muscles, they learn about the world physically, cognitively, and
socially.

We can help them along by loving them, keepinf them safe, and
encouraging exploration”