Our Curriculum | Fairfax and Arlington Child Care | Sparkles! Early Learning Academy

Proven, Research-Based

At Sparkles, our goal is to utilize proven, research-based curriculum resources designed to produce creative, confident thinkers. Using the nationally recognized Creative Curriculum system, we incorporate the latest research and best practices to address the learning needs of infants, toddlers, and preschool children by using age-specific objectives for learning and development. These objectives have been identified as strong predictors of school and life success, building traits associated with leadership.

Creative Curriculum’s content is aligned with Virginia’s Foundation Blocks for Early Learning, Virginia State Learning Standards, and national universal preschool/kindergarten readiness initiatives, meaning your child will be prepared for success at school from Day 1.

Study units support the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) approach to learning, with highly interactive activities to promote critical thinking, problem-solving and team-building skills, enabling children to experience learning in fun and exciting ways!

To help you gain a realistic understanding of what the children learn and when they learn it, we have provided the following child development chart.

Infant = Infants | Toddlers = | Preschool = | Pre-K = Pre-K

Social-Emotional

Regulates own emotion and behaviors
Establishes and sustains postive relationships
Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations

Physical

Demonstrates traveling skills
Demonstrates balancing skills
Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination

Language

Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
Uses language to express thoughts and needs
Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills

Cognitive

Demonstrate positive approaches to learning
Remembers and connects experiences
Uses classification skills
Uses symbols and images to represent something not present

Literacy

Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition
Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
Demonstrates writing skills

Mathematics

Uses number concepts and operations
Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
Compares and measures
Demonstrates knowledge of patterns

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