Our Curriculum
At Tender Care Learning Centers, our primary focus is to cultivate a nurturing and loving environment that fosters your child’s growth and learning. Our child-centered classrooms are thoughtfully designed to encourage exploration, enhance socialization skills, and facilitate small group learning in a fun and inclusive setting. To ensure your child’s progress is on track, we conduct bi-annual parent conferences with our teachers, providing an opportunity to discuss their development within our programs.
Our dedicated teachers plan hands-on and interactive activities that engage your child in the learning process. Through a wide range of enjoyable activities, we foster the development of literacy, language, social-emotional, and physical skills. To support this approach, we integrate multiple curriculums to create a well-rounded learning experience for your child. At Tender Care, we strive to make every moment count in your child’s educational journey, inspiring a love for learning that will last a lifetime.
The Creative Curriculum
The Creative Curriculum is a renowned, high-quality educational program with national recognition. It is meticulously designed based on over two decades of in-depth research and thorough field testing. This curriculum is dedicated to nurturing and developing your child’s educational skills, tailored to meet their individual needs and promote appropriate developmental outcomes. With a strong focus on personalized growth, The Creative Curriculum ensures an enriching and effective learning journey for every child.
COR Advantage
COR Advantage serves as an authentic and continuous observational system, essential for assessing your child’s development. When integrated with The Creative Curriculum, our teachers gain valuable insights into your child’s abilities and knowledge by observing them during everyday experiences. This approach proves highly effective in understanding what they can do and know. The COR Advantage is grounded in 38 well-defined objectives, encompassing predictors of school success and aligned with the Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards. This robust system ensures a comprehensive evaluation, fostering your child’s growth and readiness for future academic achievements.
Let’s Begin with the Letter People
Let’s Begin with the Letter People™ offers a comprehensive curriculum focused on the captivating Letter People characters, their motivating songs, and compelling stories. This program plays a crucial role in cultivating a strong foundation for young learners, preparing them for success in reading and writing. With interactive and exciting activities, children develop essential literacy skills and set the stage for a lifetime of achievement.
S.T.E.A.M
At Tender Care Learning Centers, we fully integrate STEAM education into all our classrooms and age groups, making it an integral part of daily learning activities. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, representing an educational approach that nurtures your child’s natural curiosity, language, and critical thinking skills. Embracing STEAM education offers numerous benefits for your child, including the development of problem-solving abilities and analytical skills. By identifying and working to solve problems, children build confidence in their capabilities. Moreover, this approach broadens their perspectives, encouraging them to learn and think about the world in innovative ways. At Tender Care, we are committed to providing your child with a well-rounded education that fosters creativity, adaptability, and a lifelong love for learning.
Enrichment Programs
At Tender Care Learning Centers, we deeply value the holistic development of every child under our care. We recognize that some children may benefit from extra enrichment programs throughout their day. Therefore, all our locations are committed to assisting in finding additional services, including speech, hearing, and vision screening, as well as various other outreach programs.
These supplementary services are entirely optional, and there might be an additional fee associated with them. We believe in providing comprehensive support and tailor-made solutions for each child’s individual needs and interests. If you would like to explore the diverse programs available at your school, we encourage you to get in touch with your Director. We are here to ensure your child’s growth and success, creating a nurturing and enriched learning environment for every student at Tender Care.