Our Educational Programs
Where Fun Meets Quality
CURIOUS KIDS specializes in providing licensed Full-Day Care for 3 and 4-year-olds, Morning Preschool, After-School Programs, and Summer Day Camps. Our programs are designed to provide children with learning opportunities based on natural play Outdoors, physical activity, healthy eating, and development assets.
Programming
How Do We Come Up With Our Programs?
Programming is Based On:
Our programming is created by using the New Brunswick Curriculum Framework for Early Learning and Child Care, Developmental Assets, and a personal experience and knowledge of what kids love to do.
New Brunswick Curriculum Framework
What Is The New Brunswick Curriculum Framework?
New Brunswick Curriculum Framework is an engaging curriculum that focuses on the best interests of the child as they play and learn each day. Using this Framework, we will provide a quality educational program that will concentrate on the environment, and on the child's emotional and physical health. To learn, kids need uninterrupted time to play in an environment that is safe and includes ample learning opportunities through various activity centres, enhancing both individual and group experiences. Once a 'spark for learning' is determined, children will have the ability to actively continue their own learning by choosing from numerous materials, supplies, equipment, and activities. The curriculum framework and supporting documents can be accessed online by clicking here.
Developmental Assets
What Are Developmental Assets?
Research surrounding Developmental Assets has been done by the Search Institute that provides practical guidance on how to use children’s own interests or “sparks” to enhance their personal learning about things they are passionate about.
We Are Committed To
Believing
Believing in each child and helping them be their own special self
Listening
Listening to each child and allowing them to have a voice in what they want to do, and how they want to do it
Opportunity
Giving each child the opportunity to try and make changes for the better
Positive Role Models
Being positive role models and setting reasonable boundaries to keep each child safe while allowing them to be personally challenged
Supportive
Providing each child with the chance to try something new and provide support, encouragement, and comfort when they succeed and when they need to try again
Play
Allowing each child to learn through PLAY and expose them to a world full of new experiences within the community
Encouraging Interest
Discovering what each child is interested in and feeding that interest with listening ears and encouraging those interests by asking key questions and securing necessary tools to extend the learning process
Living By Example
Living by example values such as caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility and making opportunities to chat with each child about their personal values and why they are important to them
Connecting With The Children
Helping each child feel special and unique! Sharing with each child their dreams and discussing how those dreams can come true
Community
Teaching the value of living within a community by the reinforcement of building partnerships with local businesses and organizations to allow children the opportunity to learn through hands-on experiences such as stocking shelves at the local food bank, picking up garbage along with the NB Trail system, raking leaves for the elderly, collecting old blankets for the SPCA, and volunteering with school initiatives such as fundraising, breakfast clubs, etc.