This new building will increase instructional time and academic performance for our students while leading to operational savings due to consolidation and childcare savings for parents.
District 45 utilizes the Creative Curriculum (Fifth Edition) in our Early Childhood program. This curriculum focuses on the following areas of child development: physical, cognitive, social/emotional, and language. There are guidelines and standards that have been developed indicating the content that children should be exposed to by certain age levels.
Literacy – vocabulary and language, phonological awareness, letters, words, print, comprehension, books, and other texts
Mathematics – numbers, patterns and relationships, geometry and spatial awareness, measurement, and data collection, organization, and representation
Science – the physical properties of objects, living things, and the earth and the environment
Social Studies – how people live, work, get along with others, shape, and are shaped by their surroundings
The Arts – dance, music, dramatic play, drawing, and painting
Technology – tools and their basic operations and uses
Process Skills – observing and exploring; problem solving; and connecting, organizing, communicating, and representing information