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Bakersfield Parent Nursery uses The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool, a research-based early childhood curriculum designed to support the whole child. Our curriculum helps children build important cognitive, social, emotional, language, physical, and problem-solving skills through play-based learning and hands-on discovery.
The Creative Curriculum is built on research about how young children learn best. It supports school readiness while still allowing children to explore, create, ask questions, build relationships, and grow at their own pace.
At BPN, curriculum is not about rushing children into academics. Instead, we create meaningful learning experiences through play, art, music, movement, outdoor exploration, stories, conversation, and hands-on activities. This helps children develop confidence, independence, curiosity, and a lifelong love of learning.
2-3 Year Old Preschool Goals
2-3 Year Old Preschool Goals
Our 2–3 year old preschool program helps young children feel safe, confident, and excited about school. Through play-based learning, hands-on activities, sensory exploration, stories, music, movement, and outdoor experiences, children begin building important early childhood skills at their own pace.
Children in this age group are supported as they:
Recognize colors, shapes, and early patterns
Build large motor skills through movement, dancing, and active play
Develop early literacy skills through story time, book awareness, character emotions, and weekly visits to our on-site free library
Explore early math concepts such as sorting, size, counting to 10, opposites, and positional words like on top, under, next to, and below
Strengthen fine motor skills using playdough, tweezers, sponges, manipulatives, and starter scissors
Engage in dramatic play, fingerplay, music, and creative movement
Learn about weather, seasons, animals, animal sounds, and the natural world
Practice school readiness skills such as separating from parents, asking for help, using manners, building empathy, and making friends
Explore art through painting, collage, sculpture, and open-ended creative materials
Participate in sensory and science activities using water tables, funnels, spray bottles, tweezers, and hands-on experiments
Build vocabulary by making observations, testing ideas, and describing what they see
Take part in our hands-on garden program
Pre-K Preschool Goals
Pre-K Preschool Goals
Our Pre-K preschool program helps children build confidence, independence, school readiness, and a love of learning before entering kindergarten or elementary school. Through play-based learning, hands-on activities, creative exploration, early literacy, math, science, art, movement, and social-emotional learning, children are supported as they grow at their own pace.
Children in our Pre-K program are supported as they:
Recognize letters of the alphabet and begin identifying letter sounds
Build early math skills, including counting 1–30, recognizing numbers 1–10, one-to-one correspondence, sorting, classifying, patterns, and comparing sizes
Understand positional words such as on top, behind, in front, inside, below, next to, and under
Practice direction words, including right and left
Explore opposites such as hot/cold, hard/soft, empty/full, dirty/clean, wet/dry, and young/old
Strengthen fine motor skills through playdough, scissors, hole punches, cool-shot glue guns, tweezers, sponges, manipulatives, spray bottles, and a fine motor journal
Develop early handwriting skills through Handwriting Without Tears and hands-on fine motor practice
Build early literacy skills through story time, rhyming words, book awareness, sequencing, character emotions, inferences, problem-solving, and alternate endings
Develop a love of reading through daily in-class library time and weekly visits to our on-site free library
Follow simple classroom directions and begin following three-step instructions
Explore art through painting, collage, sculpture, and open-ended creative materials
Engage in science and sensory exploration based on life and earth sciences, including plants, insects, planets, people, nature, and hands-on experiments
Participate in our hands-on garden program
Enjoy music, dancing, singing, fingerplays, and dramatic play
Build social-emotional skills such as empathy, friendship, responsibility, listening to adults, taking turns, accepting answers, and understanding how choices affect others
Learn basic safety skills, including fire safety and who to call during an emergency
Practice important personal information such as full name, birthday, phone number, and parents’ names
Build independence and responsibility by caring for their backpack, lunch pail, water bottle, classroom, playground, and personal needs such as toileting, handwashing, and opening/closing lunch items
California Preschool Learning Foundations
California Preschool Learning Foundations
At Bakersfield Parent Nursery, we provide a play-based preschool curriculum designed to support each child’s growth and development. Our teachers create meaningful learning opportunities that align with the California Preschool Learning Foundations while still honoring each child’s unique pace, personality, interests, and needs.
These state guidelines help preschool teachers support important areas of early childhood development, including social-emotional growth, language and literacy, early math, science, physical development, creativity, and school readiness.
Please remember that every child develops at their own pace. The California Preschool Learning Foundations are a helpful guide, not a checklist that every child must master at the same time.
Families can support preschool learning at home by spending time together, listening, reading often, helping children regulate emotions, giving age-appropriate responsibilities, encouraging kindness, and creating opportunities to explore, play, and problem-solve.
If you have questions about your child’s development, preschool readiness, or classroom experience, please reach out to your child’s teacher or the school director.
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