{"id":1288,"date":"2012-11-14T06:48:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T06:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2bc.org\/?page_id=1288"},"modified":"2019-10-01T19:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T19:58:41","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/cdc\/about-us\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2bc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wee-learn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1578 alignright\" title=\"wee learn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.2bc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/wee-learn-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEE Learn Curriculum Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Child Development Center uses the WEE Learn (Weekday Early Education) curriculum. &nbsp;This is a Christian-based curriculum especially designed for preschoolers. &nbsp;Each unit includes Bible stories, Bible verses, &nbsp;and thoughts (verses put into words that a child can understand). &nbsp;Prayer is also part of our program as we seek to provide a Christian environment. &nbsp;The CDC encourages the parents to use these essential tools with their children at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To appropriately meet the needs of preschoolers, our curriculum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Is Activity-Based<\/strong>\u2014Preschoolers are active learners and must be involved in activities that do not force all the children to do the same thing at the same time.&nbsp; Learning center activities allow children to learn through experience rather than simply listening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Provides Choices<\/strong>\u2014Preschoolers need to be able to choose which centers to work in, what to build with the blocks, or where to put the paint on the paper.&nbsp; Teachers provide an environment filled with unit-related choices and a child chooses what interests him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Allows Physical Activity<\/strong>\u2014Because muscles are growing and developing, preschoolers need to be able to move about freely.&nbsp; Learning activities allow children to move about as they choose a center, work a puzzle, draw a picture, build with blocks, play in the home-living center, and enjoy a book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Encourages Creative Expression<\/strong>\u2014As a teacher develops activities related to a unit theme, the creative expression in art, writing, puzzles, music, and other activities belong to the child.&nbsp; Every child is creative.&nbsp; They should be allowed to express themselves and experiment with their own design rather than a teacher providing a \u201cpattern\u201d or assisting them with an art activity.&nbsp; The experience, rather than the finished product, is the goal.&nbsp; Children become confident as they use their own ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Provides Balance<\/strong>\u2014Because curriculum provides a guide for the day, it provides a balance of activities:&nbsp; quiet\/active, indoor\/outdoor, working alone\/interacting with a group, rest\/physical activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Includes Beginning Group Experiences<\/strong>\u2014While younger preschoolers will only be aware of themselves and their own activity (solitary play), they will eventually move to parallel play, and finally to group participation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Makes Learning Fun<\/strong>\u2014When preschoolers are allowed to move around, express their own creativity, and choose what interests them, they will be successful, relate positively, and enjoy learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Invites Conversation<\/strong>\u2014Preschoolers learn through simple conversations about God, the world He made, and how to treat each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Provides a Flexible Schedule within a Familiar Routine<\/strong>\u2014Flexibility allows teachers to meet the needs of the children while helping them feel secure in a familiar routine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEE Learn Curriculum Overview The Child Development Center uses the WEE Learn (Weekday Early Education) curriculum. &nbsp;This is a Christian-based curriculum especially designed for preschoolers. &nbsp;Each unit includes Bible stories, Bible verses, &nbsp;and thoughts (verses put into words that a child can understand). &nbsp;Prayer is also part of our program as we seek to provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":1231,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8433,"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1288\/revisions\/8433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2bc.org\/cdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}