Our Curriculum
   
  The Holding Hands curriculum has been structured to foster the development of important basic skills. We encourage our children to become early emergent readers and writers, skilled in beginning mathematics, and practiced in the art of observation, creative thinking, and problem solving. Art, music, movement, sports and nature are vital extensions of our more formal classroom activities.
   
  The development of our curriculum is an ongoing process. We are committed to providing a curriculum that is negotiated between the teachers and children thus enhancing and facilitating children’s construction of his or her own powers of thinking. Our emergent theme based curriculum is one that builds upon the interests of our children.
 
 
Because children learn with their entire beings, their bodies, minds and emotions and have an innate desire to master their world, we believe that they learn best in an emotionally supportive atmosphere, through experiences that grow out of the environment and the resources at hand. Our educational materials are age-appropriate, and progress from the concrete to the abstract. We integrate the curriculum so that math, literacy and art are addressed in a variety of ways. This approach to education encourages the ability to develop solutions to intricate and complex problems, facilitates the development of analytic skills, and promotes flexibility in thinking.