Foundations: Early Learning Standards for North Carolina Preschoolers and Strategies for Guiding Their Success
A guide is for teachers, administrators and families with preschool children. It contains:
- Guiding principles that state the values, beliefs and knowledge base of Foundations.
- A set of early learning standards that are "widely held expectations" for the learning and development of three, four and pre-k five-year-old children. The expectations define what children should have the opportunity to learn.
- Strategies for early childhood educators and families for fostering children's experiences needed to achieve the widely held expectations.
The early learning standards and strategies cover all five developmental domains: approaches to learning, emotional and social development, health and physical development, language development and communication, and cognitive development.
Creative Curriculum
If you would like to read more about how we use exploration and discovery in our high quality, developmentally appropriate preschool classroomsas, enabling our students to develop confidence, creativity, and lifelong critical thinking skills, visit the website for Creative Curriculum. Research Studies and a Parent Guide are also available.
Information About Children Who Have Special Needs
North Carolina's Office of Early Learning website with a listing of publications and web resources for Families.
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
This site explains the pyramid model approach to challenging behavior. It includes many parent resources/handouts on social and emotional basis for behavior. The Family Routine Guide includes strategies for the common routines and activities that typically occur throughout a week. A related site, The TACSEI Families Community, also has wonderful resources for parents. Check out the Backpack Connection handouts fors information that helps parents stay informed about what their child is learning at school and specific ideas on how to use the strategy or skill at home.
GCF Family Support Services
Support for families of children with special needs by providing a one-on-one parent match with a trained support parent for emotional support, assistance in finding community resources, and sharing parenting experiences.
Developmental Checklists Birth to Five
If you are concerned about what skills your child should be doing at his/her age, here is a simple checklist to help you. Typical skills in motor, cognitive, language , self-help and social/emotional domains are outlined, as are developmental red flags.
NAEYC for Families
Information on children's learning and development geared specifically for families.
Online Pre-K Math and Literacy Games and/or Resources:
PBS
Starfall
A month of Preschool Literacy Activities
Readingrockets
Center for Early Literacy Learning
Kindergarten Transition
A series of three videos, presented in English and Spanish, designed to help children and families transition to kindergarten