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Programs
The CT ELDS include eight domains or areas of development. The next pages include a description of each domain and ways to promote your child’s development and learning
Our programs are designed to meet the needs of both children and families through specific goals and objectives. We focus on building off of the strengths of each child, taking advantage of every teachable moment.
Cognition
This area includes:
• Showing curiosity
• Making sense of the world
• Staying with something
• Working hard-to-solve problems
Support your child’s development by:
Giving your child lots of chances to explore.
Encouraging curiosity so they enjoy learning.
Helping them figure out the answer to their own questions.
Talking to them a lot, even if they don’t understand everything you are saying yet.
Social and Emotional Development
This area includes:
• Building relationships
• Gaining an understanding of oneself
• Expressing feelings
• Learning how to play with other people
Support your child’s development by:
Giving your baby lots of love, positive attention and praise helps them learn social and emotional skills. Responding when your child cries helps them learn about communicating.
As they get older, helping them learn words for their feelings.
Helping them learn ways to calm and be in control of themselves (e.g., quiet time or using a soothing object). Find time for them to play with other children.
Physical Development & Health
This area includes:
• Learning to take care of oneself
• Figuring out how to do things with their body and hands
• Beginning habits that help them grow strong and healthy
Support your child’s development by:
• Giving your child lots of chances to move on their own and play actively.
• Modeling healthy eating and sleeping habits and activity levels.
• Talking to your child about healthy and unhealthy foods.
• Involving them during bathing, dressing and mealtimes.
Language & Literacy
This area includes:
• Understanding what others are communicating
• Communicating thoughts, feelings, ideas
• Engaging in conversations
Support your child’s development by:
• Talking, talking and talking some more to your baby or child.
• Describing what you are doing as you change their diaper, bathe them and feed them.
• Listening to them make sounds and respond to them. Describe what you see when you are at the grocery store, in the car or on the bus and when they are playing. Hearing lots of words from you will help them learn to use those words. Knowing lots of words will help them with reading later on.
Creative Arts
This area includes:
• Enjoying music, dance, drama and art
• Expressing oneself through the arts
Support your child’s development by:
• Building on their creativity. As long as it’s safe, let them try doing things in new and different ways.
• Playing music and dancing. You can sing, dance, clap the rhythm or move in new ways.
• Pretending, making pictures or building sculptures with anything you have at home.
• Talking about music, dance, drama, and art.
Mathematics
This area includes:
• Understanding numbers and how to use them
• Comparing
• Measuring
• Understanding shapes
Support your child’s development by:
• Using daily routines to help your child learn math skills, such as counting and sorting.
• Using math words, such as more, less, longer, taller, etc. Ask “How many?” and help your child figure out the answer.
Science
This area includes:
• Understanding how we answer questions about the world and solve problems
• Exploring the world around us
• Beginning to learn about living things, the earth, space and energy
Support your child’s development by:
• Giving your child time to explore inside and outside.
• Using words that name living things and parts of earth and space.
• Building on your child’s curiosity by asking questions and talking with them about how to find answers.
Social Studies
This area includes:
• Understanding people, culture and community
• Knowing about family and then the community and world
Support your child’s development by:
• Helping them learn about themselves and your family and your culture.
• Telling your child stories about the day they were born, sharing family history, stories or music from your culture.
• Talking about the places you go in your community and playing pretend using different roles in your community.
Give Us Your Feedback
Is there anything else you would like us to include in our program? Let us know.
We would love to hear any suggestion that you have, feel free to share your thoughts with us.