Curriculum

Teachers utilize the Washington School Readiness Performance Standards to prepare weekly lesson plans that include age-appropriate activities that encourage and support children's physical health, social and emotional skills, language and communication skills, and cognitive development. A number of skills are developed when children are "playing" in Learning Centers. Judaic themes and holidays are incorporated daily. A weekly lesson plan is posted in each classroom.

Learning Centers

Your child will have a choice of activities to participate in each day. Multi-sensory activities, creative art, science, early math, English literacy, family living, building, fine motor, building blocks, and water play are samples of the centers available. Because we believe that play is a child's greatest learning experience, our approach allows children to choose the skills they wish to develop.

As the art center is popular among the children, we wish to convey an important aspect of our philosophy. We do not do the work for the children. You will need to accept your child's artwork as he or she did it — the work will not be teacher-fixed. In this way children are able to work freely and develop a personal pride in their works of art as they enjoy and learn from the process.

Social & Emotional Learning

At Gani we are dedicated to nurturing social-emotional skills in children. We recognize the need for tools that promote emotional intelligence — skills like empathy, self-awareness, and emotion regulation.

We focus on helping children develop crucial life skills that contribute to long-term success in school and beyond.

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Targeted Areas of Development

Our curriculum is intentionally designed to nurture growth across these eleven core areas.

  1. Language skills — receptive and expressive communication, functioning in a group, and language appreciation
  2. Perception and fine motor skills
  3. Movement and gross motor skills
  4. Social interactions and learning to use their words
  5. Reading readiness
  6. Number concepts
  7. Science
  8. Jewish holidays, rituals, symbols, and foods
  9. Prayers and blessings
  10. Hebrew introduction
  11. Jewish values rooted in Torah and Mitzvot