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A Foundation for Lifelong Learning

Our Creative Curriculum is designed to inspire curiosity, encourage exploration, and build confidence through meaningful, hands-on learning experiences.

Supporting Every Stage of Development

At Picket Fence Learning Center, our Creative Curriculum encourages children to learn through exploration, play, and meaningful experiences. Every activity is designed to build confidence, creativity, independence, and the skills children need to succeed in school and beyond.

Creative Curriculum

Social/Emotional Development
Sense of Self
  • Shows ability to adjust to new situations.
  • Demonstrates appropriate trust in adults
  • Recognizes own feelings and manages them appropriately
  • Stands up for rights.
Responsibility for Self and Others
  • Demonstrates self-direction and independence
  • Takes responsibility for own well-being
  • Respects and cares for classroom environment and materials
  • Follows classroom routines
  • Follow classroom rules
Prosocial Behavior
  • Plays well with other children
  • Recognizes the feelings of others and responds appropriately
  • Shares and respects the rights of others
  • Uses thinking skills to resolve conflicts
Physical Development
Gross Motor
  • Demonstrates basic locomotor skills (running, jumping, hopping, galloping)
  • Shows balance while moving
  • Climbs up and down
  • Pedals and steers a tricycle (or other wheeled vehicle)
  • Demonstrates throwing, kicking, and catching skills
Fine Motor
  • Controls small muscles in hands
  • Coordinates eye-hand movement
  • Uses tools for writing and drawing
Cognitive Development
Learning and Problem Solving
  • Observes objects and events with curiosity
  • Approaches problems flexibly
  • Shows persistence in approaching tasks
  • Explores cause and effect
  • Applies knowledge or experience to a new context
Logical Thinking
  • Classifies objects
  • Compares/measures
  • Arranges objects in a series
  • Recognizes patterns and can repeat them
  • Shows awareness of time concepts and sequence
  • Shows awareness of position in space
  • Uses one-to-one correspondence
  • Uses numbers and counting
Representation and Symbolic Thinking
  • Takes on pretend roles and situations
  • Makes believe with objects
  • Makes and interprets representations
Language Development
Listening and Speaking
  • Hears an discriminates the sounds of language
  • Expresses self-using words and expanded sentences
  • Understands and follows oral directions
  • Answers questions
  • Asks questions
  • Actively participates in conversations
Reading and Writing
  • Enjoys reading and values reading
  • Demonstrates understanding of print concepts
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
  • Uses emerging reading skills to make meaning from print
  • Comprehends and interprets meaning from books and other tests
  • Understands the purpose of writing
  • Writes letters and words
Elmwood I
Elmwood II
River Grove

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