Curriculum

At First Step our staff offers stimulating and developmentally appropriate activities that may include music and movement, outdoor play, sensory activities, arts and crafts, pre-reading, pre-math, motor skills, quiet story time, dramatic play and lots of laughter, hugs, love and positive guidance.

​Lesson plans that include a letter, number, color and shape we also incorporate music, math, science, books and even Spanish. We focus on hands-on learning centers that encourage our children to use their creativity, such as social skills and oral language.

Below you will find a sampling of activities incorporated into the curriculum for our infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

• Infants:
  
• Fine Motor Skills: Playing with Blocks, Puzzles, Grasping Toys
• Sensory Skills: Textures, Cool/Warm Water, Bubbles, Ice, Soft/Rough
•  Language: Songs, Story-Time, Numbers, Colors, Shapes, oral language
•  Social/Emotional Development: "Patty-Cake", Puppet Shows, Instruments

•  Toddlers:
• Using Glue, Painting, Free Art, Color Sorting
•  Learning Colors, Shapes, ABCs, Days, Months, Opposites and oral language
•  Singing, Story-Time, Poems, simple Spanish words, sign language
•   Puzzles, Exploration

Pre-Schoolers:

• Social Skills Thru Oral Language- Motor Skills such as Cutting, Use Glue, Tracing, Painting and Cutting
• Learning to Recognize Letters of Name, Shapes, ABCs, Days, Months
• Learning Letter Sounds
• Singing and Story-Time 
• Simple Spanish

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