Programs
Our Our master planned and accredited curriculum, Creatively Shine™, is based off the newest research and trends to prepare young children to enter their educational career equipped with cognitive, social, emotional, physical and language skills. At Little Sunshine's Playhouse we believe that a child's work is PLAY! We teach children lessons, manners, and social skills all through creative and preplanned play. We know that if children enjoy learning at a young age it will carry with them throughout their lives! Creatively Shine™ guides our teachers through each day, enriching the classroom environment, building each child's self-esteem, facilitating smooth transitions between activities and creating a literacy-rich and multi-cultural environment where each child will be comfortable to explore. It serves as a backbone to the classroom direction and structure with monthly themes, broken down into two to three units. For each month of curriculum, we have original projects, outfit each classroom with new items that reflect the monthly theme and provide related activities to support the individual concepts of the "whole child" (cognitive, social/emotional, physical and language).
Unlike many other preschools, we do allow our teachers some freedom and flexibility to mold their classrooms' curriculum into something they can be passionate about and effectively teach to their students. Our teachers follow the Creatively Shine™ curriculum directions and use the resources available to them (including training videos, lesson planning literature and research, child developmental guidelines, local Kindergarten readiness checklists, etc.) to create the specific weekly lesson plans for their classroom. These lesson plans are then reviewed and ultimately approved by on-site management and later evaluated by our Corporate Office as part of our quality assurance program. This thorough process is carried out to ensure that each of our students leaves our program with all the necessary skills to flourish in Kindergarten and beyond.
Another contributing factor to providing our students with a quality education is our classroom environment. Great care is taken when designing and setting up each classroom. Each preschool room is set up into learning centers which include: science, math, manipulative, housekeeping, kitchen, gross motor, quiet (reading), writing areas, etc. Our classrooms are designed to be soothing and are decorated with soft colors and natural woods in order to avoid being over-stimulating or distracting.
The success of our curriculum and our program as a whole can also attributed to parent participation being highly encouraged. Our curriculum and monthly planning fosters strong parent/teacher relationships through verbal communication, daily sheets, posted classroom schedules and lesson plans, newsletters, conferences, events and programs. Parents can even use our Kiddie Cams™ to continue their involvement by watching an activity or event at its planned time when they cannot be there in person.
In addition to our curriculum and planned activities, our schools also offer extra programs that may include (varies slightly from location to location): dance, soccer, yoga, Foreign Language, Sign Language, computer lab, science lab, music, etc.
