Little Owl Learning Academy: Nurturing Young Minds Through Innovative Curriculum

Little Owl Learning Academy stands out as a leading daycare provider, dedicated to the well-being of children in its care. The academy fosters a learning environment where each child is encouraged to reach their highest potential through an advanced curriculum focusing on development in mathematics, grammar, science, and social studies. Little Owl Learning Academy is here to share high quality, early education teaching curriculum with you. With a Masters Degree in Education and many years of teaching experience, you will find everything you need toddler-2nd grade.

Core Principles: A Foundation for Growth

At the heart of Little Owl Learning Academy lies a commitment to core principles that guide its educational approach. The academy is focused on the well-being of the children in its care. We provide a learning environment that encourages all children to learn at their highest potential, by providing an advance curriculum that focuses on their development, in mathematics, grammar, science, and social studies.

Effective Learning Programs: Cultivating Essential Skills

Little Owl Learning Academy's learning programs are designed to promote development in communication, creativity, and critical thinking. The classroom environment is a happy place where the teachers encourage each student to love to learn and explore by being creative and letting their imaginations run wild.

An Emphasis on Practical Learning: Hands-On Exploration

The academy's progressive approach fosters children's learning through hands-on experiences and opportunities for multi-sensory exploration and discovery. We encourage each child to build meaningful relationships with others. Children are active, sensory learners, and Little Owl offers an environment that allows children to explore, investigate, interact socially, and problem solve.

Curriculum Overview: A Comprehensive Approach

Little Owl Academy has now been creating preschool curriculum, products, supplementary materials, and more for 5 years. Little Owl Academy is here to share high quality, early education teaching curriculum with you. With a Masters Degree in Education and many years of teaching experience, you will find everything you need toddler-2nd grade. The academy offers a range of curriculum options tailored to different age groups and learning needs:

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Preschool Curriculum Bundle: A Year-Long Thematic Journey

This preschool curriculum bundle includes 34 themes to help your students learn all year long. Each theme correlates with the month you will find it in. It includes only black and white printable pages for each theme. Most themes include over 20 pages of low prep learning fun covering all of the preschool standards. It progressively gets more advanced as your students move through the year. Each theme includes songs and other ideas to go along with that theme. This is a great option for a full year of preschool curriculum to include at home or in your classroom.

Are you looking for an entire school year worth of Preschool Curriculum for 3 and 4 year olds, ready to use, no prep, themed, and age appropriate? Are you looking for the best preschool curriculum to give you ideas, standards based material, and a variety of themes? Then look no further! This HUGE bundle contains everything you need to teach or homeschool your preschool age student. It includes 34 themes plus alphabet practice, numbers 1-20 practice, and tracing and cutting through the year. It's full of preschool worksheets, songs, and ideas.

Each weekly theme has 12 black and white and 12 color pages, as well as an original song and book ideas. The standards covered in this curriculum are:

Colors
Numbers 1-20
Shapes
Patterns
Spell and write name
Count backwards
Recognize uppercase and lowercase letter names and sounds
Learn phone number
Identify big and small, tall and short
Follow directions
Cutting Up and Down, Left and right
Rhyming
Telling stories
Difference between letters, words, and numbers
Sight words
Labeling pictures
Vowels and consonants
Graphs
Opposites
Identifying and More!

This also includes a bonus file "Year at a Glance" printable page to show you the suggested order for the curriculum to be taught as well as giving some teaching ideas.

The individual packets included are:

Tracing and cutting through the year
Numbers 1-20 practice
Alphabet practice
On the Farm theme
Apple theme
Transportation theme
Back to School theme
Spiders theme
Monster theme
Pumpkins theme
Halloween theme
Dinosaurs theme
Thanksgiving theme
Friends theme
Leaves theme
Christmas theme
Elves theme
Gingerbread theme
Teddy Bear theme
Winter theme
New Year theme
Martin Luther King Jr. theme
President's Day and American Symbols theme
Groundhog Day theme
Teeth theme
Valentine's Day theme
Spring theme
Read Across America theme
Ocean theme
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Toddler Curriculum: Nurturing Early Learners (Ages 2-3)

If you have a toddler, or teach young children, this toddler preschool curriculum is perfect for you. This toddler curriculum is geared towards children age 2-3 years old. It is meant to be done along with an adult. Each packet includes 5 color and 5 black and white pages of activities to go along with a fun book your toddler will love. Read the book together, and then complete the activities at their pace. These activities are simple, age appropriate, and are a great way to lead into beginning preschool skills.

Are you wondering what should be taught at home or in the classroom to toddlers? Are you wondering what curriculum might be right for ages 2-3? Or are you simply wondering what should I be teaching to a toddler? Children ages 2-3 are truly at a magical time in their lives. They have begun to really discover their surroundings, their voice, and soak up everything they learn. That is why this toddler curriculum for ages 2-3 is book based. Children learn the most from reading! Each of the 40 packets is focused on a well love child’s book, including, “The Napping House,” “Harry the Dirty Dog,” “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear,” and SOOO much more. After reading the story your child or student will begin practicing very beginning level school skills. Some, they may be able to do on their own. Some, may require help. The first time he tried any of the cutting pages, he simply cut the page into pieces. And guess what, that’s okay! This toddler curriculum for 2-3 year olds is meant to be at their level. Now that we have been doing this for a year, he has a better grasp on how to hold scissors and where to cut when needed. We don’t expect perfection, I just want learning to take place!

Preschool Book Companion Bundle: Integrating Literature and Learning

If you enjoy the toddler curriculum, but are ready for more advanced concepts to be learning, this preschool book companion bundle is perfect for you. I have to admit, this is my true pride and joy work. This has been created from pure love! Read the story with your child or class, and complete 10 color or black and white activities from each packet. All preschool standards are covered. You can complete one page or all of them from each packet and they correlate with each book being read. This is a perfect way to teach all the preschool standards while incorporating learning fun as well!

Comprehensive Preschool Curriculum: A Complete Teaching Solution

I have had many requests for a new preschool curriculum from Little Owl that includes even more to each week, including full lesson plans and more materials. This is what you will find here! This preschool curriculum will include everything you will ever need to teach preschool. It includes individual themes, correlating to the month you will teach them Each theme includes book companions, task cards, letters of the week, math concepts for the week, circle time activities, and lesson plans. If you are teaching preschool at home, or in the classroom, and you find yourself starting from square one with absolutely no curriculum, this is a fantastic place to go because it truly has everything you will need!

The Little Owl School Philosophy: A Constructivist Approach

Little Owl School is a small school with a large purpose: we work to change the way young children interact with the world. We help them to experience fairness, integrity, and respect for others and the environment. Ultimately, we provide them a springboard for becoming the person they are meant to be. If we begin to value who children are, not just what we want them to be, a shift happens in the way we think about learning and teaching. At Little Owl, the child’s inherent desire to learn is acknowledged and facilitated. We believe the heart of children’s learning is play. Through self-initiated play, children develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional skills and grow into critical thinkers.

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The educational philosophy at Little Owl is based on constructivist learning theory and research, which has shown that children learn best by discovering and constructing their own knowledge in an enriched environment. Little Owl is committed to a curriculum in which the children’s ideas, not the adult’s, construct the planning of projects. Before beginning projects, teachers learn about the children’s interests through observation. Teachers then prepare varied materials that will provoke and anticipate avenues for the children to explore their interests through projects. One primary goal of the curriculum is that teachers accept children and their parents as they are: culturally, developmentally, and linguistically. Teachers do not maneuver children into preconceived roles ordained by arbitrary methods or objectives. Instead, they treat children as contributing participants in the curriculum.

Our educational program and vision at Little Owl is inspired and nurtured by the programs in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where education is viewed not as a product or goal to be attained, but rather as an ongoing process of growing and learning through investigation and inquiry. Our knowledge about how children grow, learn, and develop critical thinking is also validated by the work of Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Dewey and others.

“The curriculum is not child centered or teacher directed. The curriculum is child originated and teacher framed…We have given great care in selecting the term ‘negotiated curriculum’ instead of emergent or child centered curriculum. We propose that ‘negotiated curriculum’ better captures the constructive, continual and reciprocal relation among teachers, children and parents and better captures the negotiations among subject matter: representational media and the children’s current knowledge.” (Innovations in Early Education: The International Reggio Exchange, vol.3, no.)

For Parents: Partnering in Your Child's Development

We make sure to involve parents in our daily schedule and learning programs to ensure complete transparency. This ensures that your children are getting the care they deserve while parents are still able to make suggestions that can guide their child’s development. If there are issues at the school with your child or with the school it is addressed quickly and smoothly.

Environmental Responsibility: A Zero-Waste Policy

To reduce our impact on the Earth’s resources and address waste management issues moving forward into the next millennium, Little Owl School is committed to diverting our waste from the landfill. We have a zero-waste policy that staff, families and vendors are committed to.

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