We have selected the WEE Learn Curriculum for Timberlake Christian Preschool. The Wee Learn curriculum offers cognitive challenges to young children exposed to the WEE Learn framework through age appropriate practices. The Wee Learn curriculum is solidified on its base of concrete experience and focus on relationships, communication, and exploration of the environment. The curriculum is thoughtfully planned, comprehensive, cohesive, and integrated across domains of learning and development.
The Wee Learn curriculum provides systematic learning opportunities in language and early literacy, mathematics, science, social studies, the arts, physical development, and personal and social development. The curriculum is relevant to children's everyday experiences and highlights the importance of the family's role in linking a child's early experiences to the world around them.
WEE Learn's Philosophy: Framed by theory and philosophy of life. Led by faith and grounded in evidence-based practices, preschools using the WEE Learn philosophy and curriculum work to support children and families. Children's individual differences and learning styles are considered as they learn through play and interactions with supportive early childhood teachers to maximize each child's learning potential. This thoughtful and planned curriculum has a multiple theoretical basis. By blending what is known from Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory, Piaget's theory of development, Erikson's stages of development and Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, Timberlake's early childhood teachers prepare developmentally appropriate learning experiences for our young students.
Child Development: The early years are an important period of development. During these early years, children learn best through active, engaged, meaningful experiences. Through these experiences, young children construct their own knowledge by interacting with their environments and others. Researchers and educators agree that quality early care and education provides an invaluable foundation for later school and work success.
School Readiness: School readiness is a multidimensional concept. A child's readiness for school is not simply a matter of alphabet knowledge, or other predominantly cognitive accomplishments. Important as those are, readiness also includes social-emotional abilities, approaches to learning (i.e., curiosity), and communication skills, as well as motor development and physical health. Ongoing research continues to confirm the need to think about children's readiness for school as multi-faceted.