Faces of Early
Childhood
Childhood
The Early Childhood Program lies at the core of
Racine Family Literacy's mission. The main object-
ive is to have children enter kindergarten prepared and
ready to learn. Five and six year olds work on building
a strong base of pre-reading skills. To accomplish this,
RFL provides services to insure children 0-6 are heal-
thy, social/emotionally well, and have the language and
cognitive skills to succeed in life.
Early Childhood Classrooms:
1) Birth to 2 1/2
2) 2 1/2- 4 year olds
3) K4/K5
Early Childhood Philosophy
Children's classrooms are set up on the Creative Curriculum
model, insuring opportunities for imaginative and gross motor
play, art, story and group time. All children ages 2 1/2-6 are
assessed twice yearly with High/Scope's Child Observation Record for literacy/language, initiative/social
relations, and science/math skills. In 2008 2 1/2- 6 year olds will be assessed on "creative representation"
scales also.
All children birth-age 6 are additionally developmentally
screened in-home in their native language, with parents
participating in the process, on the Ages and Stages
Questionnaire. Concerns identified may lead either to
retesting or referral.
Parents join children frequently for family time--
reading together, crafts, enjoying a visitor, or
celebrations.
| Volunteer Sharin Tellez doing an apron storyboard |
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