Curriculum

Our main goal at Denise Louie is to prepare children for school success. We work with the child and the family from pregnancy to age 5 to support all aspects of the child’s growth and development to help them prepare for this important transition at age 5.

In Early Head Start, Home Visitors use the Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum that provides information, modeling, feedback and support to parents with children 0-3. The curriculum offers components across multiple domains including: Family Development, Mother’s Needs, Caring for Baby, Baby’s Development with emphasis on language, literacy, and social development.
For 3-5 year olds, we use the Creative Curriculum, a play based curriculum that identifies and supports goals in the following areas:
1) Social/Emotional:  to help children develop independence, self-confidence, and self-control, follow rules and routines, make friends, and learn to be part of a group
2) Physical: to increase children’s large muscle skills: balancing, running, jumping, throwing and catching, and to use small muscles: buttoning, stringing beads, cutting, drawing, and writing.
3) Cognitive: to acquire thinking skills such as the ability to solve problems, to ask questions and to think logically – sorting, classifying, comparing, counting, and making patterns.
4) Language: to use words to communicate with others, listen to and participate in conversations with others, understand the purpose of print, recognize letters and words, and begin writing for a purpose.
Classroom Language Plans - DLEC is committed to valuing the importance of each child’s home language while supporting the acquisition of English language skills. Each classroom has a classroom language plan where the languages of the children, teachers and learning community are incorporated into the curriculum in an intentional way.
Second Step Curriculum – provides tools for teachers to teach empathy, feelings, and how to solve conflicts that come up in the classroom.
Family Partnership Building – In order for families to be successful, they must have the skills and confidence necessary to provide a safe and nurturing home environment.  Bilingual Family service staff (for pre-school) and Home Visitors (for Early Head Start) assist families in identifying and achieving family goals including improving English, finding employment, finding housing, etc.
Parent Education – Several times per month, parents have the opportunity to participate in any number of parent education opportunities including child development, positive guidance, car seats, oral health, health literacy, and English as a second language.

Our main goal at Denise Louie is to prepare children for school success. We work with the child and the family from pregnancy to age 5 to support all aspects of the child’s growth and development to help them prepare for this important transition at age 5. 


In Early Head Start, Home Visitors use the Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum that provides information, modeling, feedback and support to parents with children 0-3. The curriculum offers components across multiple domains including: Family Development, Mother’s Needs, Caring for Baby, Baby’s Development with emphasis on language, literacy, and social development.


For 3-5 year olds, we use the Creative Curriculum, a play based curriculum that identifies and supports goals in the following areas:

  1. Social/Emotional:  to help children develop independence, self-confidence, and self-control, follow rules and routines, make friends, and learn to be part of a group
  2. Physical: to increase children’s large muscle skills: balancing, running, jumping, throwing and catching, and to use small muscles: buttoning, stringing beads, cutting, drawing, and writing.
  3. Cognitive: to acquire thinking skills such as the ability to solve problems, to ask questions and to think logically – sorting, classifying, comparing, counting, and making patterns.
  4. Language: to use words to communicate with others, listen to and participate in conversations with others, understand the purpose of print, recognize letters and words, and begin writing for a purpose. 

Classroom Language Plans - Denise Louie Education Center provides quality, multilingual, multicultural early childhood education services to children and families.  At Denise Louie Education Center, we respect and preserve each child’s individuality, culture, heritage, and home language.  As language is a foundation part of this work, each classroom will create and put in place a language plan that reflects both the classroom and larger community. The ability of a child to speak his or her home language is a crucial part of that child’s relationship with family and community.  In addition, home language development builds upon the vocabulary and understanding the learner already possesses.  Home language development also serves as a valuable tool in the development of a second language. Each classroom will support the exploration of all languages represented in our learning community as we work to further our understanding of our communities, of each other, of ourselves, and of our world.

 

Second Step Curriculum - provides tools for teachers to teach empathy, feelings, and how to solve conflicts that come up in the classroom. 


Family Partnership Building – In order for families to be successful, they must have the skills and confidence necessary to provide a safe and nurturing home environment.  Bilingual Family service staff (for pre-school) and Home Visitors (for Early Head Start) assist families in identifying and achieving family goals including improving English, finding employment, finding housing, etc.


Parent Education - Several times per month, parents have the opportunity to participate in any number of parent education opportunities including child development, positive guidance, car seats, oral health, health literacy, and English as a second language.

 

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