Curriculum

At ABR our curriculum is based on the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. It offers pre-school children a firm foundation for the future as the first step in a child's lifelong learning process. The curriculum covers areas of Mathematics, Science, English, Language Arts, History and Social Studies. We also focus on Fine and Gross Motor Skills, Health and Safety, Music, Arts and Crafts and Multiculturalism.

See the table below for a more detailed breakdown of our curriculum or click on a topic for a more detailed description of each topic.

Language Arts

ABR goes over vocabulary words, sings songs, plays games, everyday routine and rules, taking turns, listening skills, social skills such as, eye contact, tone, pitch, volume, share ideas, conversations, asking questions, planning, making choices, decisions and using correct language.

Reading and Literature
Printed material, listen to wide variety of age appropriate literature, develop familiarity with forms of alphabet letter awareness of print and letter forms uppercase and lowercase. Opposite and rhyming words.

Composition
Draw pictures to tell stories, use computer software as writing tools to produce enlarged print, hear what they have written, use mouse to draw.Trace or write our name, letters a-z and numbers 1-10. Using pencil grips and cutting,

Mathematics

Number sense
Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts, use positional language and ordinal numbers (first and second) 1-1 counting.

Patterns and Relations
Describe the size, shape, color of material
Sort, categorize, or classify objects. Matching and sequencing.

Shapes
Eat snacks cut in various shapes, sort blocks

Measurement
Estimate how many steps it will take to cross the room, measure length, measure sand, measure height and coins.

Data Collection
Organize and draw conclusions from facts they have collected, construct simple graphs

Inquiry Skills
Conduct simple investigations, determine sink or float, answer what if?, use microscope, memory skills and same or different.

Science & History

Earth and Science
Compare rocks, feel air, make blow pictures, wet sand

Life Science
Outside look for birds, animals and plants. Classify flowers and plants.

Physical Space
Manipulate, observe, compare heavy vs. Light

Technology and engineering
Feel and use variety of natural wood, cotton, fur, wool, play with ramps and vehicles in block area. Tools and magnifying glass

History and Social Science
Discuss and identify the order of daily routines. Discuss what comes first, second, look at photographs or pictures of older things, identify cause and effect relate to a personal experience, predict outcome, create familiar things such as, buildings, stores

Health Education

Physical development
Gross and fine motor skills play games or dance and ask children to identify and move various parts of the body, examine a model of skeleton, use thumb for small pegs draw pictures, play with manipulative toys, climbing, running, puzzles, draw human body

Emotional Health
Listen and discuss books on emotions, talk about how you feel?, self help, use songs or dance to express emotions

Safety
Listen to stories about germs and disease, talk about doctors appointments and illnesses, talk and demonstrate safety

Playground
Use large outdoor equipment such as ladder, slide, climb structure, push, pull, songs that contain sequence of body movement and use balls.

Arts

 Music
Sing songs, finger plays, sing-a-long, play instruments, listen and imitate sounds

Theatre Arts
Use dramatic play, costumes and pretend to be someone else. Create a character based on stories, make up dialogue such as how much is this?

Visual Arts
We use different color paints, different brushes for size, shape and color and mix colors.
Pre-school children got familiar with these concepts. Children learn through play as well as academic learning.

Circle time
We learn the weather, months, seasons, numbers on calendar, date, month, days of week, alphabet, colors, shapes, opposites and rhyming words.

Singing
Theme related songs to express oneself.

Arts & Crafts
Theme related Art projects and use of fine motor skills.  The materials that we use are, scissors, glue, construction paper, cotton balls, paint, foam paint, water colors, foam pieces, glitter, sand, sequence,
confetti, tongue depressors, rhinestones and so much more.

A Brighter Rainbow Learning Center      862 Boston Road, Billerica Ma. 01821     (978) 670-9222
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