Curriculum

The philosophy of The Creative Curriculum® is that young children learn best by doing. The Creative Curriculum® is built on theories of development in young children and that all children learn through active exploration of their environment, therefore the environment plays a critical role in learning.

The primary focus of The Creative Curriculum® is the environment and classroom community. The Creative Curriculum® recognizes that by continually changing and enriching the environment, teachers can support learning and creativity in children. Children’s creativity is supported by an environment that encourages them to try out ideas and to risk making mistakes. Our teacher’s creativity is supported by a curriculum framework that encourages them to be innovative and responsive to children.

The Creative Curriculum® allows teachers to integrate learning through literacy, math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology throughout the day. It also gives teachers a wide range of teaching strategies– from child-initiated learning to teacher-directed approaches– to best respond to children’s learning styles, strengths, and interests.

Our teachers at Adventures build the curriculum for the children around the environment using different interest areas including, Dramatic Play, Blocks, Art, Sand and Water, Library, Music and Movement, Cooking, Discovery, Computers and the Outdoors. The richer the environments, the more concrete opportunities there are for children to learn by interacting with materials and people. The teacher’s role is to create an environment and community that invites children to observe, to be active, to make choices, and to experiment.

Encouraging Adventurous Eaters

When you enroll your child here at Adventures, we form a partnership with you and make a promise to provide the same consistent, quality care that you would give your own child. One of our goals has always been to support your child’s desire to be a life-long learner and where better to start then giving your child the opportunity to develop healthy eating habits that last a lifetime!

Each month there will be a “Harvest of the Month” which spotlights a vegetable or fruit. Our new menu incorporates the Michigan’s Harvest Schedule (farm fresh produce that is available to us throughout the seasons). While creating our menu, we discovered that it will not be completely possible or practical for us to source all of our ingredients locally since we have that lovely thing called winter. However, we believe it’s important to do as much as we can!

Our teachers are responsible for the amazing activities that your child will participate in on a daily basis. Every week your child will be involved in a cooking activity, from making their own snacks, measuring, exploring the sensory tables and taste testing! Our new “Harvest of the Month” menu also will guide our teachers to incorporate cooking activities that will introduce your child to a wide variety of vegetables and fruits and will encourage them to develop healthy eating habits.