Quality Curriculum:
Quality curriculum magazine provides activity ideas that align with and span the spectrum of the Massachusetts Department of Education Guidelines for Learning Areas. Quality’s curriculum taps into children’s love of learning with simple and straight-forward activities that are easy to implement and can be adapted to your children’s interests and unique characteristics.
- Developmental activities for planning an emergent curriculum for children birth to five in center-based, family child care, or mixed age groups
- Articles on best practices in the early education and care field
- Tools to assist you in creating your curriculum “web”
- Each issue is in both English and Spanish
This is what you get with Quality Curriculum
Activity ideas in all the curriculum domain areas, including English Language Arts, Mathematics, History and Social Science, Science and Technology/Engineering, Comprehensive Health, and The Arts
Trace children’s hands and feet on construction paper, cut and tape 29 tongue depressors on the back, these will be their units of measurement. Invite children to measure three pieces of furniture in your program using their hand and foot cutout. Compare how many units each child use to measure the length of the furniture.
Learning Guideline 14
Includes ideas for including literacy in your program, including well known books and authors.
Explore the book The Snowman by Raymond Briggs. You can find this or another wordless book at your public library. Invite the children to act out the story. Provide dress up clothes to become a snowman.
Learning Guideline 12
Activity ideas for infants and toddlers too!
Place tape on the floor as a path for toddlers to follow. Hold their hand as they move through the course and describe how the path leads them such as “now we are going zigzag and now in a straight line!” Invite them to run, hop, crawl, or gallop instead of walk. You can do this outside and if there is snow, create the path with boot tracks or a stick.
Links to Guidelines for Preschool Learning Experiences
Mathematics Learning Guidelines from Guidelines for Preschool Learning Experiences:
7: Explore and describe a wide variety of concrete objects by their attributes (school age link to K.P.1)
8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute (school age link to K.P.2)
14: Use nonstandard units to measure length, weight, and amount of content in familiar objects (school age link to K.M.3)
Use our handy curriculum webbing tool to coordinate activities across domains
