The children's awareness of themselves and the world is expanded by exploring their environment through field trips and by the sharing of cultures and customs of their families and others. This sharing will lead to an eventual understanding of the world around them and all that they are capable of doing in that world. The language arts include the areas of expressive and receptive language, reading readiness, as well as writing. Using literature, conversation, and discussion, these language arts skills enable children to progress from the acquisition of language to the use of oral and written language to express original ideas. Physical Development Physical development is addressed as a part of other curriculum areas.
Care is taken to include opportunities to strengthen and refine fine and gross motor skills.
Physical experiences develop the child's body coordination, balance, agility, and spatial awareness. Creative Arts Recognizing that creative arts are important for the development of the whole child, ECDC provides a variety of experiences. Music, dance, dramatic play, and visual arts are some of the areas explored. Creative dramatics are provided so that the child is able to express the knowledge that is being constructed. These experiences take the form of providing dramatic play props in centers as well as planned lessons in which the children's creativity is guided.