Curriculum Focuses
Our curriculum and interactions with the children focus on these key areas:
- Social: Interactions with peers and adults
- Emotional: Affirmation, expression and understanding of a child's own feelings and others' feelings
- Physical: Large and small muscle skills, awareness of his or her body's capabilities
- Cognitive, Intellectual and Creative: Basic concepts and problem-solving skills that will lay the foundation for future learning
Learn, Play, & Grow!
Infant & toddler careInfant and toddler care offers an opportunity for our staff to share in a special relationship. Each baby has a crib and storage area of his/her own. Designated spaces are available for feeding, soothing and playing one-on-one with the caregiver.
As infants grow, staff socialize with the children and give them words for what they see, hear and feel. The staff also may provide your child with basic sign language to give them the skills to express their wants and needs. These signs are shared with parents, as each is learned by your child. First opportunities for play are available on an individualized developmental level. Children are taught on an individual basis unique to their own stage of development. Children two years of age and older participate in age appropriate, research-based activities which are planned to coordinate with specific weekly topics that are familiar to them. Each week topics and activities are rotated to keep children's interest at peak levels. Classrooms are arranged into learning centers, which allow children the freedom to play and develop skills. The daily schedule is a carefully planned balance between self-directed and adult-guided activities and the rooms are arranged into learning and activity centers. During "free play" children have the freedom to choose activities and playmates. Each child is offered group experiences, one-on-one interactions and also time to play alone if s/he chooses. Children are encouraged to participate in activities, but are never forced to do so. The activity plan for the week is posted, and we encourage families to support our curriculum activities as often as they can. We offer children an opportunity to play outdoors daily, weather permitting. |
NC Pre-K programThe NC Pre-K Program is designed to provide high-quality educational experiences to enhance school readiness for eligible four-year-old children. The NC Pre-K Program Requirements are built on the National Education Goals Panel’s premise that to be successful academically in school, children need to be prepared in all five of the developmental domains that are critical to children’s overall well-being and success in reading and math as they enter school:
ECKC currently has two pre-k classrooms with two certified teachers (Rose Garcia, NC Pre-K teacher pictured below). 
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Other Services offered
(Limited Availability)
SUMMER CAMP/PROGRAM
SPECIAL NEEDS' AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
PART-TIME CARE
SPECIAL NEEDS' AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
PART-TIME CARE