Our Curriculum
Designed by experts, The Play With Purpose Curriculum is strategically curated to encourage children to learn through a play-based and child-centered approach, amplifying brain development in children 1.5-5 years old (18 months-60 months). With intentional planning of purposeful play experiences, children are engaged in dynamic learning adventures in a high-quality learning environment. Based on global, international, learning standards, our curriculum is broken down into four stages of learning and organized into six learning strands: social and emotional, language and literacy, math and cognition, creative, physical, and cultural awareness.
The Play With Purpose Curriculum has identified eight learning principles: creative thinking, communication, risk taking, collaboration, curiosity and exploration, decision making, innovation, and community building, that drive and guide the developmental milestones carefully outlined through early learning goals and objectives. The Play With Purpose Curriculum balances introducing knowledge through discovery topics and guiding children to explore their own interests through child-led learning. Through discovery topics and intentional teaching children are encouraged to explore and develop essential skills with hands-on learning experiences.
The Play With Purpose Curriculum is the future of early childhood development. Our curriculum is the first of its kind that guides educators to plan and implement purposeful, play-based learning experiences based on global and international standards. The streamlined approach taken by The Play With Purpose Curriculum encourages individualized instruction aligned to exceed the standards of all major education systems. As we educate the youngest generation, we are building global citizens through developing independence, creativity, problem-solving, social, emotional, and academic skills.
Discovery Topics
The Play With Purpose Curriculum has carefully chosen a variety of discovery topics in each stage of learning to bring meaningful and relevant learning experiences to the children’s lives. The discovery topics are seeds planted to create intrinsic motivation and encourage children to learn because they want to and discover and develop new interests in a variety of areas.
Play With Purpose educators use the discovery topics to plan purposeful learning and play experiences, allowing children to fully engage and establish interdisciplinary connections. Discovery topics are taught and introduced through hands-on, play-based, sensory oriented activities that encourage investigation and inquiry-based learning.
Purposeful Play Opportunities
As early childhood educators, it seems we are constantly having to defend the importance of play in reference to child development. While play is always meaningful, there are ways educators can curate and plan purposeful play experiences, making playtime and learning more effective in the early childhood environment.
Purposeful play is one of the most important ways through which children gain essential knowledge and skills. Purposeful play ensures that children have meaningful play experiences that promote and extend children’s learning and development towards achieving developmental milestones and meeting early learning goals and objectives. The Play With Purpose Curriculum uses play as a leading strategy and integrates it into the curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Play With Purpose educators plan purposeful play opportunities to implement learning experiences that encourage development of essential skills in the early years.
Emphasis of Science and Art in the Curriculum
Science and art are so closely linked that it would be ignorant to separate them when talking about their importance in early childhood development. Both science and art help children to understand and describe the world around us. In the early years, children are exploring and trying to make sense of the world around us for the first time. An emphasis on science and art in the early years is crucial to help them develop this knowledge.
The Play With Purpose Curriculum greatly values the importance of science and art in the early years and puts a strong emphasis on these subjects in the curriculum through carefully curated topics that foster emotional intelligence, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Science and art teach children important life skills through observation, exploration and creation. Science encourages children to ask questions, observe, and inquire leading to exploration of creative pursuits.
Developing Global Citizens
In today’s world, developing global citizens could not be more important for tomorrow’s future. Our world is more connected than it has ever been before through technology, travel access, and globalization. Understanding the world we live in and the people we live with, is an essential journey that should start in the early years.
The Play With Purpose Curriculum is designed to encourage children to understand the world beyond their homes, neighborhoods, cities and countries. Cultural awareness is one of the six learning strands in The Play With Purpose Curriculum and incorporated into all areas of learning, encouraging children to understand that we are linked to each other through our shared experiences, culture, history, and planet. Play With Purpose educators use strategies to teach global citizenship by encouraging children to inquire about the world, understand multiple perspectives, use respectful dialogue, and take action to make a difference.
