At Virginia’s Home Daycare teachers act more as facilitators and language providers than anything else.  We accompany children throughout the day exposing to them to rich and positive language while presenting them with different learning opportunities customized to their own interests.

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Let’s say a child is playing with cars, then as teachers we are: describing what they are doing, describing what we are doing while we show them other ways we can interact with the cars, making connections between the cars and other subjects, presenting role play activities related to cars or maybe reading a book about cars while they play.  In other words, we try to provide language to as many different learning opportunities as possible.  The savvier the teachers are, the more connections they can draw and the more learning opportunities they can present to your child. Children get to choose what they want to play with and switch from activity to activity, while teachers surround them with positive and rich language to follow your child’s interests.

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Currently, teachers follow by providing language and presenting learning opportunities on a daily basis about:

• Shapes

• Colors

• Numbers

• Letters

• Days of the week

• Months of the year

• Emotions

• Seasons

• Animals

• Dinosaurs

• Transportation

• Nutrition

• Human body

• Personal hygiene

• Food etiquette and silverware

• Construction (huts, houses, building)

• Household (appliances, rooms, furniture)

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However, we are pushing the envelope a bit further.  In addition to the learning opportunities presented to your child according to her/his interest, we assign a weekly specific subject for our Arts&Crafts/Science/hands-on project of the day. The goal is to provide further learning opportunities which might or might not be part of the interests your child manifested, and all children get to do at least one activity together.  Simultaneously, we get to train our teachers to be savvier and better at making connections and providing language related to these specific subjects.

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Curriculum for the year

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1. Emergency situation (disaster plan, earthquake plan – recurring every month)

2. Emotions

3. Senses

4. Personal hygiene

5. Geography ( World geography and local geography)

6. Beverages

7. Seasons

8. The solar system

9. Bugs

10. Foods ( Cooking, recipes specially American, Chinese, African and Latin American)

11. Family

12. Organizing and cleaning your household

13. Technology

14. Food etiquette and silverware

15. Water ( rivers, streams, canals, locks)

16. Us Holidays

17. National Parks

18. Animals

19. Outdoors (Camping, hiking, climbing)

20. Sea life

21. Household (appliances, rooms, furniture)

22. Exercise/Sports ( types of physical activities)

23. Art history and styles

24. Music

25. Human body

26. Clothing

27. Civics

28. Books/literature (history, art, fiction, non-fiction, poems, classics)

29. Women in Science

30. Pets

31. Plants/Botanic

32. Wonders of the world

33. Construction (huts, houses, building)

34. Games ( cards, children games )

35. Nutrition

36. Energy (solar panels, nuclear, wind, hydro)

37. Geology (Rocks)

38. Dinosaurs

39. Materials (Gold, Grass, Aluminum, wood)

40. Electricity/magnetism (House electricity, magnets, power for appliances)

41. Temperature

42. Environmental Science (pollution, solutions, global warming)

43. Physics ( laws of physics )

44. Coding

45. Chemistry

46. Safety practices (do not touch plugs, hold your parents hand when crossing the street, fire extinguisher, fire/smoke/carbon monoxide detectors)

47. Rural life

48. City life

49. Evolution

50. Ancient civilizations (Egypt, Greek, Roman, Incas, Aztecs, Mayan, Mesopotamian, Chinese, Indus, Mesopotamian)

51. Transportation (cars, trucks, SUVs, minivan)

52. Aborigines

53. Traveling (what to do on a bus, subway, plains, car, at the airport).

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Note:  Some projects will be finished within the same day and others might expand over several days.  Also, this list is not in order.