Advantage Preschool and Child Care

Advantage Preschool in Ann Arbor offers a curriculum that addresses the following important areas of preschool development. Each day’s learning activities are carefully planned with the following educational objectives in mind:

• Oral Language Development
• Pre-Reading/Reading Skills
• Pre-Writing/Writing Skills 
• Listening Skills
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Number Recognition and Counting
• Number Concepts
• Operations
• Graphing
• Measurement
• Shapes
• Position and Spatial Relationships
• Hands-On Science Investigations and Experiments
• Exploring the Physical World
• Discovering Cause and Effect
• Social Studies
• Social Skills
• Christian Values
• Gross Motor and Fine Motor Skills
• Music and Dance
• Creative and Dramatic Arts
• Health and Safety

I implement best practices from a wealth of early childhood developmental theories and curriculum models, including, but not limited to:

• High Scope Preschool Curriculum, a well-researched and validated preschool curriculum 
• Everyday Math Pre-K (math curriculum currently being taught in the Ann Arbor Public Schools) Click to see Everyday Math Pre-K Goals and Kindergarten goals
• A Balanced Literacy approach using Fountas & Pinnell and Lucy Calkins literacy curriculums (currently the approach and books used to teach literacy in the Ann Arbor Public Schools) 
• Interaction Social Studies curriculum
• All About Preschoolers Science Curriculum
• Little Hands to Heaven, Christian curriculum by Hearts of Dakota

In using these curriculums, along with other methods and resources, I am able to create an exciting and enthusiastic classroom environment that gives your child the foundational skills needed in literacy, math, science, and social studies to be prepared for kindergarten. Your child also benefits from hands-on learning and constructive play designed to enhance your child’s social, emotional, physical, and creative skills.